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basal (lash, above wliicli tlm baaf; is pale. T. a. lino black, douifh!, tin; gray 

 center alone noticable, not very irregular or much waved. Orbicular large, 

 rounded, with incomplete black annulus,gray vvitli a faint blackish dot. Reni- 

 forra dark, upright, with a dietinct reddish stain, a narrow black annulus inside 

 of which is a gray ring, the center dark. T. p. line indistinct. Subterminal 

 lino whitish gray, preceded by uneven black cuneiform mark, cut by gray 

 Hhades accompanying veins 3 and 4, and followed by interspaceal black marks. 

 Terminal black interspaceal marks distinct. Hind wings whitish gray, irrorate 

 with fuscous, with longer fuscous hairs over internal margin, with blackish 

 discal dot and median line more apparent in .^ , and concolorous fringes before 

 which the terminal black line is subcontinuous and very distinct; beneath as 

 above, the black discal dot very distinct and the line marked on the veins. 



Expanse, 34 m. m. 



Throe specimens scut by Mr, Behrciis under the number 11, and 

 labelled " Oakland, January." A single specimen bears the number 

 " 625, California." Both Xyloiniges curialis and X. pafalis are 

 again sent me by Mr. Behrens; specimens of tlie latter species are 

 labelled " Mendocino." 



(2 7.) Plusia bractea, S. V. 



A specimen sent by Mr. Behrens with the label " Mendocino, 

 June," cannot be specially separated from European material of the 

 species in the collection of this Society. 



(28.) Plusia 8-scripta, Sanborn. 



A species allied to P. mortuortim. Blackish and steel gray, in some speci- 

 mens a faint rufous shade on t. p. line near submedian fold. T. p. line perpen- 

 dicular, geminate, waved or trembled, and offering thus a distinguishing 

 feature from Guen6e's species. The metallic spot incompletely 8-shaped, open 

 superiorly, pale yellowisli or silvery ; t. a. line not silvery, as in mortuorum, 

 zigzag, geminate. Reniform similar to mortuorum in shape, but without any 

 silvery shading, margined with black, enclosing a very fine silvery line. Sub- 

 terminal line much as in mortuorxim. Terminal line black followed by a dis- 

 tinct pale gray marginal shade following the scollops of the line. Fringe 

 alternately gray and black. Hind wings with a wide diffuse blackish border, 

 else pale with a sort of dirty yellowish brown tinge, like mortuorum. Beneath 

 with faint median line and spot. 



Expanse, 35 m. m. Anticosti Island (Couper) ; Racine (0. Meske) ; 

 Mass. (Prof. Packard). By a clerical error I have written the name 

 "S-signaia" on p. 73, Vol. G, Can. Ent. 



