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KAMILV NOt'lUID.K. 



429. Plusia rectangula Kirby. — Expansion of wings \% inch. 

 Taken in Canada hy Dr. I'igsby- 



Body cinereous, underneath whiter. Antenna; testaceous ; tno-ax 

 crested ? as the scales are mostly rubbed off this cannot however be 

 positisely asserted ; win^js incumbent ; primaries with a subcrenate edge ; 

 incHning to ash colored, clouded with black, with a subrarnose rectangular 

 somewhat silvery spot, extending from near the base to the middle of the 

 wing ; between which and the apex is a narrow white wavy band, edged 

 with black ; and still nearer the margin a /ig/ag transverse black line ; 

 the secondary wings arc piicatile, cinereous, and dusted at the apex with 

 brown. 



N. B. The silvery rectangular sjjot in the primary wings of this 

 inse' t, when tliey arc brought near to each other, forms a quadrangular 

 Tirea very nuich resembling a picture in a silver frame. 



[307.] 430. I'll'sia gamma Linn.- F.x[);insion of the wings 1 Jj 

 inch. Taken in Canada by l>r. IJigsby. 



Head, crests of tlie thorax and abdomen gray ; these crests are edged 

 with white and in the anterior ones the margin is formed by a black and 

 white line ; abdomen cinereous ; antenna; above testaceous, underneath 

 white banded with brown ; tb.e primar) wings are shaded and clouded 

 with black, brown and white, and towards the apex have three indistinct 

 bands, the first white internally abbreviated, the second dark-brown, and 

 the marginal one gray including a transverse series of black crescents ; in 

 the disk of the wing is a pallid silvery signature, representing the Creek 

 letter gamma, or the Roman V, the forked part pointing to the costal 

 margin ; from the upper point of the fork a white curving line runs 

 obhquely to the anal margin of the wing near its base ; secondary wings 

 light brown, or drab, with the nervures, and posterior margin broadly, dark- 

 brown ; fringe alternately dark and light ; underneath the wings are cin- 

 ereous, darker at the apex. 



[308.] 431. Plusia falcifera A7//'_>'. — Expansion of the wings i )^ 

 inch. Taken in Nova Scotia by I )r. Mac Culloch. 



Body gray. Antennse and thorax, when laid bare, testaceous ; primary 

 wings gray with a faint reddish tint, a broad brown spot, or cloud, almost 



