PHTTOMETEA, 553 



oblique red-brown strlga from costa and an obliquely curved line 

 from cell to inner margin ; orbicular represented by a minute golden 

 sti'eak above median nervure ; an oblique golden stigma below the 

 cell expanding into a rounded lobe at extremity ; reniform faintly 

 defined by brown, oblique and slightly consb'icted at middle ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, red-brown, excuryed below costa, oblique to 

 vein 2, then excurved ; an oblique red-brown shade fi'om apex and 

 small rufous patch at tornus ; a tine dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing yellow suffused with red-brown especially on terminal area ; 

 cilia ^'ellow tinsjed with laifous. Underside vellow irrorated with 

 red-brown ; fore wing with a large patch of brown suffusion beyond 

 and below the cell from vein 4 to inner margin, the veins of tenuinal 

 area streaked with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with some gold scales on the ante- and post- 

 medial lines towards inner margin, the stigma below the cell slightly 

 angled inwards on inner margin and with more rufous below and 

 beyond it. — Kaslo. 



Hah. Caxada, Br. Colimibia, Kaslo {Cockle), 1 $ ; U.S.A., 

 Washing-ton, California, Mendocino, 1 6 type, Siskiyou. Exi?. 

 40-42 millun. 



8391. Phytometra excelsa. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Plusia excelsa, Kretschmar, Berl. Eut. Zeit. vi. p. 135, pi. 1. f. f) (1862); 

 John, Kev. Euss. Eiit. viii. p. 220. ff. 3, 4 ; Staiul. Cat. Lep. pnl. p. 237. 

 P/usia metahractea, Bull. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 190. 



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

 palpi, tegtdae, and thoracic crest in front tinged with fiery red, the 

 tegulse grey at tips ; pectus and legs ochreous tinged with red- 

 brown, the pectus fiery red in fi'ont ; abdomen yellow tinged with 

 red-brown, the crests red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey suifused 

 with red-brown and sti-iated with dark brown, the medial area 

 below the cell deep golden brown ; subbasal line red-brown defined 

 on outer side by whitish, angled inwards in cell and ending at 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by sihany- 

 white, angled outwards below^ costa, retracted in cell, then oblique ; 

 orbicular oblique elliptical, defined below l)y a cm'ved silvery streak ; 

 a large oblique silvery stigma below the cell, rounded at extremity ; 

 renifoim with faint pale outline and its centre defined by some dark 

 brown marks, a .silvery striga at its lower inner extremity, somewhat 

 constricted at middle ; a dark line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin excm'ved beyond the stigma ; postmedial line double, dark 

 brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and bent outwards 

 below vein 2 ; an oblique chocolate-brown shade from apex to vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line dark brown, excurved at vein 7 and angled out- 

 wards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing 

 yellow suffused with reddish brown, the veins and terminal area 

 red-brown, an oblique brown postmedial line. Underside reddish 

 yellow slightly irrorated witli brown ; fore wing with the disk 



