570 KOCTTJIDiE. 



8417. Phytometra albavitta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 18.) 



Anto(iraj)ha albavitta, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 7o, pi. viii. f. 8 



(11)02); Dyar,Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 200. 

 Behrensia htitsonii, Smith, Psycbe, xi p. (JO (1904). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed with reddish 

 brown. Fore wing white suffused with jjale rufous especially on 

 medial and postmedial areas, and with slight black irroration ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a slight black .'^pot below costi ; antemedial 

 line blackish defined by white on inner side, the black obsolete on 

 costal area and the white strongly bent outwards, excurved from 

 costiil nervure to above inner margin where it is incurved, and with 

 small black spot before it ; a U-shaped white mark below middle of 

 cell ; orbiculaar and reniform small, defined by white, the former 

 oblique V-shaped, open above, the latter naiTow, the area between 

 them rather darker ; postmedial line indistinct, brownish defined by 

 white on outer side, excm-ved below costa, then incurved, excurved 

 at vein 4, then strongly incurved, a dark-in-orated mark beyond it 

 at lower angle of cell ; subterminal line white, strong, excurved to 

 vein 6, then incurved, two rufous spots beyond it between veins 

 5 and 8 ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia Avhite with some dark 

 irroration beyond the rufous spots. Hind wing white suffused with 

 pale brown ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia Avhitish ; the 

 underside with indistinct ciuwcd medial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle California, San Diego, Arizona. Yuma Co., 

 typet 6 liuisonii in Coll. J. B. Smith. Exp. 30 millim. 



8418. Phytometra ampla. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 19.) 



Plusia ampla, Wlk. xii. p. 910 (1857); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. 



p. 73, pi. vii. i'. (>. 

 Tlusia altcrna, Streck. Troc. Ac. Kat. Sci. Phil. 1886, p. 178; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, 257. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brov.n ; tegul« tinged with 

 rid^ous at base and with two dark lines near tips ; mesothorax with 

 a dark line ; the thoracic crest inifous at tip, the metathorax 

 chocolate-brown ; tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the crests choculate-brown. Fore wing grey tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with a few black scales, the medial area 

 below the cell chocolate red-brown to submedian fold then dark 

 brown to inner margin ; a curved black subbasal striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line black-brown, angled outwards below costa, retracted 

 in cell, then obliquely curved ; orbicular faintly defined by silvery- 

 whitish and the ujiper edge of centre by dark scales, slightly con- 

 stricted at middle ; an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the 

 cell, filled in with grey defined by some dark scales, its inner arm 

 angled inwards on median nerviu-e ; renifoi-m with slight silvery 

 annulus defined at sides by black, narrow, oblique, its outer edge 

 indented at middle ; postmedial line black-brown defined on outer 

 side by gi'ey, angled inwards below costa, then slightly bent out- 



