572 KOCTUID^. 



Hah. Geuma-NV, Silc'iua ; AusTKiA, Zt'ller Coll., Tirol, Merau 

 (Mann), Caniiola ; Hungary ; Switzerlant), Frey and Leech 

 Colls.; Spaix, Leech Coll.. Andalu.sia ; Italy; S. Russia. Zeller 

 Coll. ; W. TuRKESTAX, Bokhara ; W. Siberia, Altai. £x2). 38- 

 44 millim. 



Larva. Kii-by, Butt, & Motlis Eur. p, 2G8 ; llffm. Eaup. p. 132. 



Hvuuped ; gi'een with dark green lateral stripes defined by white; 

 somites 1—1 with svdjdorsal Avhite bars, the other somites with dark 

 green kinules defined bv white. Food-plant, Thalictrum Jlavum. 

 5-G. 



8420. Phytometra aereoides. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 20.) 



Pliisia eercoidcs, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliil. iii. pp. 83, 511, pi. 2. f. 5 

 (1854); Ottolengui, J. ]S\Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. vii. f, 3; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 247. 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; tegidai brown and white at tips, 

 the patagia with oldique brown and white line across them and the 

 area beyond it brown and white, the dorsal crest brown and white 

 behind ; abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the crests red-brown 

 and white at tips. Fore wing violaceous pink tinged and irrorated 

 with rufous, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; subbasal line 

 red-brown, from costa to vein 1, a red-brown shade beyond it ; 

 antemedial line red-brown, inwardly oblique, slightly excurved 

 below costa and in submedian interspace ; the .stigma below the 

 cell defined by red-brown, oblong and rather iuAvardly oblique ; 

 reniform defined by red-brown, constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line red-brown, bent outv\'ards below costa, then with silvery-whitish 

 band on its inner side, inwardly oblique and slightl}^ excurved at 

 middle ; svibterminal line nifous, oblique fi'om apex to discal fold 

 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark terminal 

 line. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; an indistinct 

 curved postmedial line ; a fine dark terminal line defined on inner 

 side by white from apex to vein 2 ; cilia whitish, intersected with 

 brown at the veins. Underside whitish irrorated with bro^vn ; fore 

 win"" with the disk suffused -with dark bi'own ; hind wins: with 

 dark brown discoidal lunide, sinuous postmedial line and subter- 

 minal line diffused in submedian interspace. 



JIa/j. C.VXADA, Ilenfrew Co., 4 d , Ottawa (Gibson), 3d, 

 Ontario, Orillia (Bi/sJi), 1 6 , Alberta, Cdlgary (TVonei/-Dod), 2 d" , 

 2 5 , High R. {Baird), 1 6 , Vancouver I., Cowichan Bay 

 (Liviiif/sfone), 1 d, 1 $; U.S.A., south to Texas and west to 

 Colorado, Xew York {Dovhieday, Fackard, Scadder), 3 d , 2 $, 

 Trenton F-aWs (Bc^ihlrdai/), 1 d, 1 ?, Evans Center (Grote),2 6, 

 I 2 . E.vjy. 36-12 milliin. 



Larva. Thaxter, Psyche, i p. 188. 



Pale green marked with greenish white, humped; semilooper 

 spins a white cocoon. Food-plant, Spinea salicifoUa. 



Pupa. Pale green with large bhick patches on back. 



