PHTTOMETRA. 541 



suffusion before it from vein 7 to 4, sliglitly waved, bent outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved below veins 4 and 3 ; a white line before 

 termen from just below costa to vein 2 with chocolate-brown 

 suffusion before it ; a tenninal series of slight dark lunules ; cilia 

 brown and white with fine waved white lines at base and middle. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the terminal area dark 

 cupreous brown ; cilia white, chequered with dark brown at base 

 from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white irrorated with brown, the 

 tei'minal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (WoUey-Dod), 16, 1 $, 

 Br. Columbia {Lord), 1 c? , Ashnold {Mrs. JSficholI), 1 $ , Bear 

 Creek {Mrs. Nicholl), 1 ? , Duncan's {Hanliam), 1 $ , Kaslo 

 {Fletcher, Cockle), 1 J , 1 2 , Vancouver I. (iyr///, J". J". Walker), 

 2 d,2 $, Cowichan Bav {Lit-inystone), 2 $' ; U.S.A., Colorado 

 {Cockerell), 2 § , Berkeley {Oslar), 2 $ , California {Osten-Sackeu, 

 Wahi7igham,D''Urhan),\ d" , 2 $ , Kern Co.. 1 6 , Havilah, 1 6 . 

 Exp. 3G-14 millim. 



Larva. Djar, Ent. Am. vi. p. 14. 



Dark green, doi-sal line white slightly sinuous and interrupted, 

 subdorsal line white ; lateral line white, rather broader ; a white 

 stigma tal stripe, diffused below ; warts whitish with white hairs, 

 the suprastigmatal warts with black centres ; 4th-9th somites with 

 small dorsal black spots on anterior part of somites ; spiracles white 

 with l)lack ring ; head green, tlie jaws and palpi black ; the head 

 sometimes with black stripe ; three pairs of prolegs. Pupates in a 

 thin web of white silk. Food-plant, Malva. 



8373. Phytometra flagellum. (Plate CCXXXYIII. fig. 26.) 



Tlusia flageUum, Wlk. xii. p. 909 (1857); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Sue. 



X. pi. ix. f. 9; Siiiilh. Cat Noct. K Am. p. 2.51. 

 riiisia monodon, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 202 (1875). 

 Flusin hisolita, Smith, Er.t. News PLilad. vii. p. 30, pi. xv. f. 17 (1896). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; tegulaj with 

 slight dark line at middle defined behind by white and white tips, 

 the patagia with oblique white line near base and white tips, the 

 metathoracic crest tipjied with white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 greyish mixed with brown, the tarsi ringed wdth white, the 

 abdominal crests red-brown and white. Fore wing silvery-grey 

 suffused and irrorated with dark reddish brown ; subbasal line 

 doul)k'. silvei-y-white and oljlicpiely curved from costa near the 

 antemedial line to median nervure, where there is a black point 

 above it, then with double silvery stria? filled in with black ; ante- 

 medial line silver}', slightly defined on inner side by red-brown and 

 strongly on outer side In' dark In-own, strongly angled outwards 

 below co.sta and inwards at median nervure, then oblicpiely curved ; 

 orbicular with silvery outline and its centre defined by blackish, 

 oblique elliptical ; a very oblique and elongate silver Y-shajied 

 stigma below the cell, its arms with whitish between them and its 

 tail extending to near the postmedial line; reniform with slight 



