542 XOCTUID.E. 



silveiy outline, oblique, sti'ongly constricted at middle and with 

 some black in its extremities ; postmedial line double, dark brown 

 iilled in with silvorv-whito, bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then excurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line dark defined on inner 

 side by brown suffusion, excurved b^dow vein 7, angled outwards 

 below vein -i and inwards at vein 2; a blackish terminal line with 

 _ a narrow white band before it defined on inner side by chocolate- 

 brown from apex to vein 2 ; cilia whitish with a brown line through 

 them. Hind wing ochreous suffused with cupreous red-brown, the 

 terminal area darker ; a fine dark terminal line slightly defined on 

 inner side by whitish except towards tornus ; cilia white with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside ochreous irrorated with 

 red-brown, the terminal area tinged with red-brown. 



Hub. Canada, Hudson's Bay, Albany It., St. Martin's Falls 

 (Barnsfon), 2 d, 1 $ type, Cape Breton (TJia.rfer), 1 c? , 1 2 

 type inonodon, Alberta, Calgai'v {WoUey-Dod), 3 d , 2 $, High 

 li. {Baird), 2 $ . ExjJ. 42-48 miUim. 



8374. Phytometra ou. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 27.) 



Phisia ou, Guen, Noct. ii. p. 348 (1852) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Eiit. Sue. x. 



pi. \ii. f. 10; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 831; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 252. 

 Pliisia fraiella, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 161 (1874); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 2.-)2. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white ; tarsi l)roAvii 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the crests 

 browner, the ventral surface whiter. Fore wing gre}^ suffused with 

 cupreous brown and slightly irrorated with black, the medial area 

 with a patch of deeper cupreous brown below the cell and the sub- 

 terminal area deeper cupreous brown ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 silvery defined on each side b}^ brown and -with black striga before 

 it below the cell, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, cupreous brown, angled outwards below costa, 

 then waved ; orbicular indistinctly defined by whitish, oblique 

 V-shaped; an oblique silvery V-shaped stigma below the cell, with 

 a small elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform with 

 faint pale outline, constricted at middle and with black striga in 

 upper extremity ; an indistinct diffused brown medial line, oblicjue 

 to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, double, cupreous brown, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliqvie and minutely waved, slightly excurved below vein 2, a pale 

 grey shade beyond it and some white points on costa ; subterminal 

 line brown defined on outer side by pale grey and with a dark 

 streak before it below vein G, slightly waved, bent outwards at 

 vein 7 and angled below veins 4 and 3; a fine lunidatedark terminal 

 line defined on inner side by pale grey except at a])ex ; a fine white 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous 

 brown, the terminal area cupreous brown ; an indistinct postmedial 



