PHYTOMETEA. 571 



Avards, then oblique and sinuous to lower angle of cell, then obliquely 

 incurved, slightly angled inwards at vein 2 and to inner margin 

 Avhich it reaches close to the subterminal line, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey defined on inner side by 

 brown, rather strongly towards costa, then slightly, incurved below 

 costa, then dentate, a black mark before it at inner margin and 

 some dark suffusion at apex. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia 

 chequered whitish and brown ; the underside "whitish tinged and 

 irrorated with reddish brown, a dark discoidal striga, diffused post- 

 medial line, and subterminal shade. 



Hah. CAJfADA, Hudson's Bay, Albany E., St. Martin's Falls 

 {Bavnston), 1 § tvpe, Ontario, Orillia {Bush), 1 $, Alberta, 

 Calgary {WoUeif-Dod), 1 J, 1 2 , High R. (Baird), 2 c? , 1 $ , 

 Br. Columbia, Kaslo (Cockle), 1 d ; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern 

 States, Maine, Orono, 1 $ , N. York, Albany (Hill), 1 d . -Eay;. 

 38-46 millim. 



8419. Phytometra deaurata. 



Nocdia deanrafa, Esp. Sclimett. iv. p]. 110. f. 6 (1787); Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Tii. 2. p. CO, pi. 139. f. 1 ; Fit. Nene Beitr. pi. 19(5; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 207; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 

 Noctua chryson, Borkh. Eur. Schiuetl. iv. p. 7(>5 (1792). 

 Ncctua aurea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 288 (1802), 

 Fliisia semiargentea, Alpli. Eom. Mem. v. p. 179 (1889). 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed wdth yellow ; abdomen 

 oclu-eous white tinged with rufous, the crests red-brown at tips. 

 Fore wing bright rufous suffused with metallic gold especially on 

 medial area and apical part of costal area ; subbasal line double, 

 rufous filled in and defined on outer side by gold, sinuous, from, 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line red-brown, angled out- 

 wards below costa, inwards at median nervure, outwards in sub- 

 median fold, then oblique ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined 

 by rufous, the former small, rounded, the latter strongly constricted 

 at middle, a small U-shaped stigma below the cell faintly defined 

 by rufous ; a faint rufous medial line, angled inwards below 

 costa, outwards to lower angle of cell, then oblique, sinuous ; a 

 faint oblicjue rufous streak beyond upper angle of cell and faint 

 rufous streaks on the veins beyond the cell ; postmedial line very 

 oblique rufous and indistinct from costa to vein 7 below- apex, then 

 double, the inner line red-brown, the outer blackish oblique and 

 lightly sinuous to inner margin ; subterminal line reddish brown, 

 arising below apex, closely a]:)jjroximatcd to the postmedial line, 

 with dark points beyond it below veins 4 and 3 and a red-brow^n 

 shade from it at vein 2 to tornus with some gold before it on inner 

 margin ; a fine red-brown terminal line. Hind w'ing whitish 

 suffused with red-brown, the terminal area darker red-brown ; cilia 

 Avhitish tinged with rufous ; the underside jjaler, a rather diffused 

 sinuous postmedial red-brown line. 



Ab. 1. semiargentea. Fore wing somewhat paler golden ; hind 

 wing darker.— Bokhara. 



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