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oration of the median space superior! \Mvliieli distingnishcs/i?.S'^Hc«e. 

 The course of the transverse lines remains much the same in the two 

 species, while in the American species they are much more tinted 

 with vivid orange red at the base of the primaries. Beneath, in my 

 specimen, the lines are very faint; I think there may be two on the 

 hind Avings. The species I have considered hitherto as festiicae, 

 seems to me undescribed. Guenee says oi festucae : "Jaivuun 

 individn de 1' Ameriqne du nord qui ne differe en rien des notres." 

 This, it seems to me, could not have been &'^a(\. oi Putnami. Mr. 

 Walker, also, recov(\.^ festucae from North America. 



The descrij3tion on p. 14G should be amended and read as follows : 



5 . — Golden yellow, the base of the fore wings powdered with orange red 

 scales, and with the linear transverse shades traced in orange red basally and 

 towards internal margin. Beyond the t. a line the region about internal mar- 

 gin is washed with pale golden as in festucae, irrorate with orange red scales. 

 The angulate median shade and all the lines have apparently the same general 

 course as in festuaue. There are two median metallic spots, smaller than in 

 festucae, black ringed, the inner and slightly larger one with an upward exten- 

 sion into the discal cell. The wing has a pale rosy ground color, not dark as 

 in festucae. A black dot above vein 6 at its base, the indication of the reni- 

 form. The mntallic portion of the a])ical golden shade is limited to a border- 

 ing of the apical streak, not so uniform!}- spreading to the costa as \r\ festucae. 

 Hind wings, pale fuscous. Thorax and head rosy; collar with a lilac edge. 

 Beneath, pale ochrey, with faint transverse lines. 



6. Plusia contexta, Orote. 



5 . — Fore wings a little narrower than in festucae or Putnami, external mar- 

 gin a little straighter, of the same brilliant colors, but the ground tint is more 

 as in festucae, more of a livid brown, not rosy as in Putnami. The course of 

 the median lines is the same as in its allies, but they are hardly as distinct. 

 The light golden metallic spots are fused, so that they come to have somewhat 

 the appearance of the spots in hiloba; the base of the compound spot is straight ; 

 the upper margin of the spot does not extend above the median vein. The 

 golden portijn of the apical shade is more extended inwardly and superiorily 

 than in either of its allies, reaching inwardly to the reniform dot. Fringes of 

 both wings pinkish. Hind wings pale fuscous ; beneath, both wings pale rosy 

 or ochrey fuscous, with faint transverse lines. Varies in the extent of the or- 

 ange red powdering of the wings, so that some specimens seem higher colored 

 than others. 



Expanse, 34 m. m. • Hahitat, New York ; Albany (Lintner). 



Bfl.. BrF. SOC. NAT. SCI. (35) DECEMBER. 1873. 



