512 noctuiot:. 



vein 5, then faint and sinnous, dutining the darker area ; the veins 

 of terminal area with sli^^-lit dark streaks ; a line dark terminal line. 

 Hind wing wliitisli tinged with rufous, especially on terminal area; 

 cilia paler; the underside yellowish white slightly tinged with 

 rufous. 



Hdb. U.S.A., Texas ; Mexico; Bka/il, liio Janeiro, 1 K , 1 $ , 

 Castro Paraiia {D. Jones), 1^; UiiuauAY, Colon {Oldjlcld 

 Thomas), 1 S ; Aikientixa, Goya (Perrins), 1 J ; Cuihi {J. J, 

 Walker), 1 6 . Exp. 32 millim. 



8337. Phytometra biloba. (Plate CCXXXYIII. fig. o.) 



Plusia hlloha, Steph. 111. Brit. Eiit., lliiust. iii. p. 101 (1S32) ; Giien. Xoct. 

 ii. p. ci4l, pi. il. f. iU; OUuieu^ui, J. JV.i'. Jiut. Sjc. x. pi. vii. T. 4 ; 

 Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 24'J. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; tegulte rufous ; antennas white 

 ringed with browni ; abdomen brownish white, the crests and 

 ventral surface rufous. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark 

 striie, the basal costal area and the medial area except towards costa 

 sufliused with cupreous gold ; a silvery point at base of costa and 

 .subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line silvery defined on each 

 side by brown, angled outwards below costa, then inwardh^ obli(|ue 

 and excurved below submedian fold ; a large oblique silvery bilobate 

 mark defined by blackish below the cell, its upper edge strongly 

 indented ; reniform represented by a small black spot at upper 

 anu'le of cell and a silverv streak with stri;e from its extremities at 

 lower angle ; postmedial line silvery- whitisli defined on each side by 

 brown, oblique, very slightly incmwed below vein 4 and submedian 

 fold; subterminal line pale defined on inner side by red-brown 

 suffusion, excurved below costa and towards tornus and incurved 

 between those points ; a slight whitish line before termen from apex 

 to below vein 4, defined on inner side by red-brown towards apex 

 and on both sides at vein 4 ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing 

 pale cupreous red-brown, the terminal area darker; eilia whitish 

 with a brown line near base ; the underside whitish tinged with 

 re.l-bi'own and irroi-ated witli brown, a slight brown diseoidal striga, 

 obrKpie postmedial line, and subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the u})per edge of the silvery stigma below 

 the cell more evenly downcurved instead of indented. — Venezuela. 



Ilab. N. America, 1 $ type, Stainton Coll. ; Canada, Ottawa 

 {Gibson), 1 2; U.S.A., Massachu.setts, New York, 1 J, 1 2, 

 Florida {Doubledai/), 1 $ , Missouri {Riley), 1 J , Te.xas, Dallas 

 \nnll), 2 d, 1 2, Colorado, Berkeley (Oslar), 3 2, California 

 (U' Urban), 1 2> New Mexico, San Ignaeio (Cockerel I), 1 J; 

 Me.xico, Atoyac {Schumann), 1 2 > Milpas {Forrer), 1 2 , Cordova 

 {liiimeli), 12, Jalapa {Trnjillo), Id, 1 2, Oodman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Jamaica, Cinchona {Fawcelt), 3 2; Venezukla {Di/son), 1 2; 

 Peku, Callao {J. J. Walker), 2 2 ; Ami}i:iTiy'x{OldJield- Thomas), 

 1 2 ; Hawaii, Kona {Ferkins), 1 6 , Lanai {Perkins). F.rp. 34- 

 4J millim. 



