492 NOCTUID-E. 



whitish. Fore wlnf;!: cnpveons red mixed with purjdish grey and 

 slightly irrorated with blaek-hrown ; subbasal double red-brown 

 stria? from costa ; antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side 

 bv whitish and on l)()th sides towards costa. angled outwards below 

 costa and obliquely curved below the cell; an obhcjue Y-shaped 

 silvery- white stigma bclow^ the cell, filled in with inifous and defined 

 bv biackish ; reniform with faint pale annulus and its centre 

 defined by dark brown, open above and sti'ongly constricted at 

 middle ; traces of a sinuous medial red-brown line ; postmedial Une 

 double, red-browm filled in with whitish, bent outwartls below costa, 

 then oblique and very slightly waved, angled inwards at vein 2, 

 then excurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line dark brown with some dark suffusion before it at discal fold, 

 excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; 

 a terminal dark brown line defined on inner side by a whitish line ; 

 a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown : cilia 

 white with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 tino-ed with iiifous and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with red-brown, a small bro-wai discoidal lunule and in- 

 distinct postmedial line. 



Hcib. Caxada. New BrunsAvick, St. John, Manitoba, Carhvright, 

 Alberta, Calgary ( WoUey-Dod), 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



8320. Phytometra accentifera. 



rh(sia accentifera, Tef. Ann. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1827, p. 94, pi. 5. ff. 1, 2; 



Mill. Icones, pi. 70. ff. 2-4; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239. 

 Plusia laureum, Frr. Neue Beitr. i. p. 43, pi. 23, f. 3 (1S31). 



Head and thorax oclu-eous tinged with reddish brown, the teguhe 

 at tips and the patagia above edged with broA\Ti and ^-ej, the 

 metathoracic crest tipped with brown ; tarsi brown ringed Avith 

 white; abdomen ochreous, the crests red-brown and gi-ey. Fore 

 wing grepsh ochreous tinged and in-orated with red-brown ; sub- 

 basal line slight, ochreous defined on each side by red-brown, from 

 costa to vein 1, a red-brown patch beyond it below the cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, ochreous defined on each side by red- 

 brown, oblique, Avaved, a blackish mark before it at inner margin ; 

 orbicvdar Avith faint ochreous anntdus defined on outer side by 

 broAvn, narroAV, oblique ; an oblique stigma slightly defined at sides 

 by sih^er below the cell, its lower extremity prodiiced to a slight 

 point on inner side and a longer point on outer, a chocolate-ljrown 

 patch beyond it below and beyond loAver end of cell; reniform 

 chocolate-brown faintly defined at sides by ochreous ; postmedial 

 line double, red-brown "filled in AA-ith ochreous. bent outAA'ards below 

 costa, then slightly waved, excurA-ed at middle, then incurved, 

 some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal Hne slight, 

 silverv defined on inner side by chocolate-broAvn shades from below 

 costa to vein 4 and towanls inner margin, excurved below vein 7, 

 incurved at middle to the postmedial line, and Avith slight dentate 



