PHTTOMETRA. 52-5 



indistinct, red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards 

 below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine brown terminal line defined on iimer 

 side by grey except towards tornus. Hind wing cupreous red-brown, 

 the terminal area rather darker ; cilia whitish wdth a brown line 

 near base ; the underside whitish irrorated with red-brown, a slight 

 brown discoidal striga and rather diffused medial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell forming a. 

 Y-niark. 



Hah. Canada, Ottaw^a {Fletcher), 3 6 , Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 

 1 d ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverley {Burq), 2 $ , New York 

 (Doubled a I/, FackanJ, Blley), 7 c? ^ 6 $ type, Trenton Falls 

 (Doxihleday), 1 S ,\ $ , Pennsvlvania, New Brighton (Merrick), 

 1 ?, Illinois, Chicago (Schleifer), 1 S . Exp. 3(j-42 millim. 



Larva. Pai-kard, Guide to the Sludy of Insects, p. 3i2. 



Green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish ; lateral stripe whitish, 

 more distinct ; head with lateral black stripes. Food-plant, Holly- 

 hock. 7-8. 



8355. Phytometra sestertia. 



riusia sestertia, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 31 (1874). 

 Plusia mapmgua, Holl. Ps-ycbe, vii. p. 8 (IbUi). 



$ . Head and thorax silvery-white mixed with deep chocolate- 

 brown, the teguhe except at tips i)ale rufous ; palpi and sides of frons 

 black-brown, the former with some ochreous at extremity of 2nd 

 joint and in front of 3rd joint ; pectus and legs black-brown mixed 

 with white, the fore tibiie ochreous white in front, the tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen brownish grey, the basal crest ]}ale rufous. 

 Fore wing brilliant silver sparsely irrorated with black-brown and 

 tinged in parts with pale rufous, the costal area thickly irrorated 

 A\ath black-brown, a large deep chocolate-brown patch' on medial 

 area below the cell and beyond its lower angle, the area before the 

 subterminal line suffused with deep chocolate-brown except at 

 middle ; a subbasal silvery striga from costa defined on outer side 

 by black-brown ; antemedial line silver defined on each side by 

 black-brown, excurved below costa and at vein 1 ; a brilliant silvery 

 stigma below the cell consisting of a large oblique U-shaped mark 

 with silvery point above its outer extremity in the cell, and a rather 

 diamond-shaped mark beyond its lower extremity, sometimes 

 touching it ; reniform elliptical, defined by deep chocolate-brown 

 and with a minute silver point at its lower inner extremity ; 

 postmedial line double, black-brown, indistinct and filled in with 

 white towards costa, then filled in willi silver, reduced to points 

 between veins ■!■ ami 2, bent outwards below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold, incurved below -4 and slightly excurved at vein 1, some 

 small white spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line silvery 

 defined on inner side by deep chocolate-brown except at middle, 

 slightly angled outwards at veins 7, G, then bent inwards, then 



