522 NocTUiD.?:. 



8351. Phytometra oo. 



Vhfihena oo, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 4.5, pi. 311. f. E (I7S2), nee f. F. 

 riittiia roi/(ttioiiis. Giicii. Noct. ii. p. 344 (18f)2); ])rii(!i', Binl. Coiiir.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 331 ; Ottdlcngui, J. N.Y. Eul Soc-. x. p. GG, pi. ix. f. 1 ; Smilli, 



Oat. Noc-t. N. Am. p. I'.'iO. 

 Plima inclKdciis, \\\k. xii. 914 (IS.")?). 

 J'lnsia hatnifera, V\ Ik. xii. U17 (lfS57). 

 riusia biiiotida, Herr.-Scliaff. Oorresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Eegfiisb. 



xxii. p. 184 (18G8). 

 riuski dt/rinf:, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 203 (1875). 



P//i.sia p'rr/nsa, Mosclil. Verli. zool.-but. (io.s Wicn, xxx. p. 300 (1880). 

 riu^ia cuHa, Lintiier, 2iid Keport Ins. N. York, p. OK (1885} ; 8jiiitli, Cat, 



Noct. N. Am. p. 251. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey-white, the 

 teguhe with slight black line at middle and Avhitish tips, the 

 ])'itagia witli whitish edges and obli(iue whitish line near middle ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the crests darker, the ventral snrface wiiitish 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with red- 

 brown and with a cupreous golden gloss, the medial area with a 

 deep red-brown p.itfh below the cell; subbasal line silvery defined 

 on each side by red-brown and with red-brown patches before and 

 beyond it below the cell, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial lino 

 silvery defined on each side by red-brown, excurved below costa, 

 angled inwards in cell, then obli jue ; orbicidar wiiitish, oblicjiie 

 elliptical ; an oblique silvery U-sha})ed stigma below the cell with a 

 spot bevond its lower extremity ; reniform deep red-brown with 

 slight incom})lete pile annulus with silvery stride on its lower part, 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line double red-brown, bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle and 

 angled inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on 

 costa and an oblique whitish shade from costa to vein 5; sub- 

 terminal line dark brown, excurv^ed below vein 7, angled outwards 

 below veins 4 and 3 and incurved at vein 2, some golden brown 

 suffusion before and beyond it from costa to below vein -i and before 

 it towards inner margin ; a slight waved dark terminal line with a 

 narrow whitish band before it. Hind wing cupreoiis brown ; cilia 

 whitish with a brown lino thi'ough them; the \inderside whitish 

 irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga, rather diffused 

 postmedial line and subterniinal shade. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the U-shaped stigma conjoined to the 

 spot. 



][(ih. U.S.A., Eastern States, Florida, Indian M. (Do/thledi/i/), 

 1 5, Texas {Boll), 2^,2$ type di/aii.^, Colorado; Mexico, 

 Jalapa {Tnijillo, Jlor(/e), 2 d , 4 5, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 cf , 

 Guerrero, Tierra Colorado (II. II. Smith), 1 $, Yenta de Zopilote 

 {II. II. Siiiilh), 1 6 , Vera Paz {Champion), 1 $; Guatkm.vla, 

 San Isidro {Ch(tmpion), 1 6 , Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 $ ; CosT.v 

 KiCA, Candelaria Mts. ( Uaderioooil), 3 c? ; Panama, Chiricpii 

 (Champion), 2 $, Godinan-Salvin Coll.; nEinirnA (Nicholl), 

 1 $; CfJiA, Tanamo (Schaiis), 1 J; Haiti (Ta-ccdie), 2 $ type 



