PHTTOMETRA. 575 



8424. Pliytoinetra asrea. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 21.) 



Nociua (erea, Iliibn. Eur. Sehinett., Noct. f. 271 (1802) ; Diip. Lep. Fr. 

 Tii. 2 p. 17, pi. 133. f. 4 ; Meigen. Syst. Beitr. Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 2.50, 

 pi. 121. f. 5 ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. vii. f. 2 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 247. 



Head and thorax fulvous ; patagia broA\Ti and grey behind defined 

 in front by an oblique brown line, the dorsal crest brown and grey 

 behind ; pectus and legs pale yellow tinged with inafous, the fore 

 legs suffused with brown in front ; abdomen pale yellow dorsally 

 tinged with brown, the basal crest dark brown and grey. Fore 

 wing purplish pink suffused with red-brown and slightly "irrorated 

 mth grey ; a slight brown subbasal striga from costa ; "antemedial 

 line brown, rather diffused, obliquely curved ; renifomi indistinctly 

 defined by brown, its outer edge indented at middle ; an indistinct 

 waved brown medial line; ix>stmedial line indistinctly double, 

 brown, excm-ved below costa, then oblique, sinuous and bent 

 outwards below submedian fold ; subterminal line dark brown 

 defined on inner side b}^ brown suffusion and on outer by some 

 whitish scales, exemi-ved below costa and angled outwards below 

 veins 4 and 8, a bright rufous patch on its inner side at inner 

 margin ; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 Avith brown ; a brown tenninal line ; cilia whitish. Underside 

 yellowish white sliglitly irrorated with brown ; fore wing witli 

 the disk suffused with brown ; hind wing with sliglit brown 

 subterminal shade. 



Hah. Canada, Nova Scotia ; U.S.A., E. States, south to Flonda 

 and Texas {Doiihleday, Groie), 3d", 2 5 , Massachusetts, New 

 York, Distr. of Columbia, Colorado, New Mexico. Exj). 30- 

 4G miUim. 



8425. Phytometra leonina. 



Plusia leonina, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 2G, pi. iii. f. 11 (1884); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. i)al. p. 237. 

 riusia hicii, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 27 (1884). 

 Plusia kumeralis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188G, p. 135. 



c? . Head, tegulae, and prothorax ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 Avith a few brown scales mixed ; palpi red-brown mixed with wliitish ; 

 thorax brown mixed A\ath grey-white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with inifous ; the crests red-brown. Fore wing 

 puqilish grey suffused with brown, the medial and postmedial 

 areas below the cell and vein 3 browner witli a slight golden gloss ; 

 subbasal line slight, brown, angled outwards ibelow costa and 

 ending at vein 1, a brown shade beyond it diffused towards costa; 

 antemedial line dark brown, angled outwards below costa, oblique 

 and diffused below the cell ; the stigma below the cell represented 

 by a .slight brown bar ; reniform defined by ratlier diffused brown, 

 narrow and lunulate ; a diffused brown medial line, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4 just beyond lower angle of cell, then oblique ; po.st- 



