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Ab. 1. Fore wing-witli tlie gold patcli tinged with green and not 

 extending to tlie subteDiiinal line. — Corea. 



Hah. Bbitaix, Leech Coll. ; S. Gehmak Y, Zeller Coll. ; ArsTEiA ; 

 HuxGARY ; SwrxzERLAXD, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Greece, 

 Merlin Coll. ; Kimelta ; Eussla, Urals ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai; E. Siberia, Amm-land, Ussuri; Japax, Oiwake {P?yer), 

 1 2 ) Tokio (Maries), 1 d , Yokohama {Fryer), 1 S ; Corea, 

 Gensan, 1 5 . Exp. 44-58 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 07, pi 240. f. 4 ; 

 Effni. Kaiip. p. 134. pi. 35. f. 9. 



Green ; doi-sal line darker and edged with white ; a lateral series 

 of oblique white streaks ; spiracles white. Food-jjlant, Evpatorium. 

 &-7. 



8427. Phytometra balluca. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 22.) 



Dyachrysia balluoa, Geyer, Zutrage, iv. p. 22, fF. 681-2 (1832) ; Ottolengui, 

 J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. vii. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 248. 



Head, tegnlse, and prothorax pale nifous ; palpi and antennae 

 brownish grey, the latter with the basal joint white in front, 

 the tegula? brown at tips ; thorax grey-brown mixed with white, 

 the doreal crest with some iiifous in front ; pectus and legs 

 Avhitish tinged with brown ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged 

 with rufous, the crests red-brown tipped with whitish. Fore 

 wing purplish grey tinged with red-brown and suffused with 

 silyery-green except the costal area and cell, the yeins finely 

 streaked with red-brown ; a brown subbasal striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line brown, excuryed to median nervure where it is 

 retracted, then oblique ; a curved brown discoidal striga with an 

 oblique brown shade aboye it from costa ; postmedial line golden- 

 brown, bent outwards below costa, slightly excurved to vein 4, 

 then slightly incurved ; a faint subterminal golden-brown shade, 

 excurved at vein 7 and below veins 4 and 3 ; a white line just 

 before termen with a cupreous brown shade before it from apex to 

 vein 4. Hind wing red-brown, the cilia brownish white. Under- 

 side pale 3'ellow ; fore wing with the disk suffused with brown ; 

 hind wing with dark discoidal point, postmedial line excurved 

 below costa, and subterminal shade towards tornus. 



Hah. C AX' AD A, Renfrew Co., 1 S , Nova Scotia (Heel man), 1 $ , 

 Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 2 $ ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and 

 Middle States, 1 d , 2 $ , Trenton Falls (Boiihlcday), 1 6 . Exp. 

 52-GO miUim. 



Larva. Saunders, Cun. Ent. v. p. 11 ; Lint. Ent. Cont. iii. Hep. N. Fork 

 State Cab. xxvi. p. 1(53. 



Yellowish green streaked and spotted with white ; sublateral 

 line greenish white ; tubercles green striped \Ai\\ white, small 

 on thoracic somites, much larger and ten or twelve on each somite 

 on the abdominal but absent on anal somite, each tubercle with a 

 single wliitish hair. Underside deeper green with a few short 

 whitish hairs ; head shining green with a few whitish hairs. Food- 

 plant, Hamalus. 



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