PIITTOMETRA. 543 



line ; cilia white chequered with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, the terminal area more 

 suffused Anth brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the tail of the stigma much reduced. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, Ilhnois, 1 2 , Florida {Bouhhday), 

 1 2 type, Texas, 1 6 type frateUa, Dallas {BolT), 16, 2 9 , 

 Nebraska, Colorado, Boulder (CoclcereW), 1 S, New Mexico, 

 Koswell {Cocl-erell), 1 $, Arizona, Nogales (Oslar), 1 c? , 3 $ ; 

 Mexico, Jalapa (Tnijillo), 1 J , 3 $, Vera Craz, Atoyac (Schii- 

 waini), 1 d,i $, Durango {BecJcer), 1 <S , Cuernavaca, Misantla 

 {Tnijillo), IS, 1$, Orizaba {God man), 1 $, Mexico City 

 {Hoege), 1 6 ; GrATEMALA City {Rodriguez), 1 <S , Cerro Zunil 

 {Champion), 1 S ; CosTA EiCA, Eio Sucio {Rogers), 1 6 ; Beu- 

 ]^[UDA, Challenger Coll., 1 6 ; Jamaica, Cinchona {Fawceft, Ka)/e), 

 1 c? , 1 $ ; Venezuela {Dyson), 2 d" , 1 $ . Exp. 30-44 millim. 



8375. Phytometra purpureofiisa. (Plate CCXXXYIII. fig. 28.) 

 Plusia furpurcofiisa, Huipsn. Mollis Iiid. ii. p. 570 (1894). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with purplish grey, the 

 tegxda^ bright rufous with grey lines at middle and tips ; palpi and 

 legs chocolate-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish 

 suffused -wdth red-brown, the crests chocolate-brown. Fore wing 

 silvery purple-grey suffused in parts with chocolate-brown and 

 irrorated AA-ith black, the medial area with deep chocolate-brown 

 patch below the cell ; subbasal line represented by an obliquely 

 curved grey striga from costa ; antemedial line grey defined on 

 each side by chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa and 

 inwards in cell, then obHquely curved; orbicular wdth diffused 

 greyish outline and its centre defined by chocolate-brown, naiTOW, 

 oblltjue ; an olilique U -shaped silvery-white stigma below the cell 

 with small spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform with gi-ey 

 outUne and its centre defined by chocolate-brown mth black marks 

 In its extremities, its inner edge oblique, its outer constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with grey, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly 

 waved, angled inwards at vein 2, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa and some golden cupreous before it below vein 2 ; subterminal 

 line chocolate-brown with some chocolate-brown suffusion on its 

 inner side from below costa to vein 4, then a slight dentate shade 

 well before it to inner margin, the line cxcurved below veins 7, 4, 3; 

 the termen pale greyish fiesh-colour with a bright rufous shade 

 before it from apex to vein 2 ; a fine rufous terminal line. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with cupreous brown, the terminal area 

 cvqireous Ijrown ; cilia whitish faintly chequered with red-brown ; 

 the underside white tinged and iiTorated with red-brown, dlft'used 

 brown postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ilal). SiKiinr Tibet, Yatung {Jlohson), 7 S, 2 $ ; SiKiinr 

 {MoIIer), 2 6 . E.rp. 42 millim. Type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 



