5-iO NOCTUIU.E. 



oblique brown shade from costa to lower angle of cell ; postniedial 

 line (loulile, choc-olate-brown filled in with whitish and with silvery- 

 white below vein 2, bent outwards l)eL)w eosta, then ()l)li(jue to 

 vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then excurved and slightly angled 

 inwards at submedian fold, a white shade beyond it and some white 

 points at costa ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, excurved below 

 vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark ter- 

 minal line defined on inner side by white from below apex to vein 2. 

 Hind wing pale cupreous brown, the terminal area deep cupreous 

 brown, a slight whitish postmedial shade ; cilia white with a brown 

 line near base ; the underside pale nifous, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight brown 

 discoidal striga and indistinct diffused postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the spot of the stigma separate from 

 the Y-mark. — Newfoundland. 



Hah. NEWForxDLAXD, Doyles, Cadroy Valley (Beddek), 1 d ; 

 Canada, Cape Breton, 1 d type, Hudson's Bay, Albany E.., St. 

 Martin's Falls {Barnston), 1 $ , Alberta, Calgary ( Wolfeif-Dod), 

 1 c?, 1 2, Br. Columbia, Bevelstoke {Mrs. ^ NiclwJl), 1 S ; 

 U.S.A., California {Wahincjliam), 1 J. Exp. 42-4G millim. 



8372. Phytometra californica. (Plate CCXXXYIII. fig. 25.) 



Tlusiacaliforiiica, Speyer, Stett. Ent. ZeiL xxxri. p. 164(1875); Ottolengui, 

 J. N.Y.'Ent. Soc. x. pi. viii. f. 11 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. K Am. p. 21^. 



Head and thorax purple-grey mixed with chocolate-brown, the 

 tegulaj with black-brown lines near base, at middle, and near tips 

 defined behind with Avhite, the metathoracic crest tipped mth 

 black-brown and white ; pectus and legs grey and rufous, the spurs 

 and tarsi brown ringed with Avhite ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 brown, the crests darker with grey tips. Fore wing pale glossy 

 purplish grey irrorated with black and suffused in parts with 

 chocolate-brown, the medial area with a patch of deep chocolate- 

 brown below the cell and some golden cupreous before the post- 

 medial line in submedian interspace ; subbasal line silvery defined 

 on each side by chocolate-brown, excurved below costa and ending 

 at vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery-white defined on each side by 

 chocolate -brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly bent 

 inwards in cell, then oblique and excurved above vein 1 ; orbicular 

 defined by diffvised white, narrow, oblique ; an oblique silvery 

 Y -shaped stigma below the cell, its tail slightly dilated at extremity ; 

 reniform with silvery-Avhite outline, its inner edge oblique, its outer 

 stroTigly constricted at middle with a slight black mark lieyond it 

 anil black marks in its extremities ; an oblique dark shade from 

 costa to lower angle of cell and indistinct oblique sinuous line from 

 cell to inner margin ; jxistmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled 

 in with white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly 

 waved to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then excurved and 

 angled inwaixls at sulimedian fold, some white ]ioints beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line chocolate-brown with chocolate-brown 



