410 NOCTUID^. 



brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and slightly 

 irrorated wdth blackish, the medial area below the cell deep red- 

 brown ; subbasal line double, whitish, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line whitish, strongty incurved in the cell, then 

 obliquely curved ; orbicular with slight whitish annulus, small, 

 oblique elliptical ; an oblique silvery- white Y-shaped stigma below 

 the cell; reniform with slight whitish annulus, constricted at 

 middle where there is a black-brown spot beyond it; postmedial 

 line double, red-brown filled in with whitish, excurved below costa 

 and obliqiie below vein 5 ; stibterminal line dark broAvn, excurved 

 below vein 7 and slightly below veins 4 and 3 ; a curved red-brown 

 line before termen with the area bej-'ond it whitish grey. Hind 

 wing orange-yellow, the base and inner margin red- brown ; a 

 terminal black-brown band ; cilia brown at base, chequered brown 

 and white at tips. Underside orange-yellow, the costal areas 

 irrorated with browu, the inner area of fore -wing and terminal area 

 of both wdngs suffused with brown ; fore wing with brown 

 discoidal kmvile and indistinct postmedial line excurved beyond 

 the cell. 



Hab. Canada, Albei-ta, Calgary (WoUei/-Dod), 2 c? ; U.S.A., 

 Utah (Barnes), 2 c?, 1$, Colorado (Bnice), 1 c? , 1 5^ , South 

 Park (Oslar), 2 d, Pehe's Peak, 2 2 , Hall Vallev, New Mexico, 

 Jaos, 1 d , Truckas Peak {CockereU), 1 c? , 1 ? . Uivjy. 34-36 miUim. 



Genus EACHIPLUSIA, nov. 



Type, B. nil. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and fringed with rather long hair in front, the 3rd rather long ; 

 frons smooth with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia ; 

 antennaj of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like 

 scales, the meso- and metathoras with large divided crest ; tibice fringed with 

 rather long hair, all the tibiae spined ; abdomen with dorsal serie.s of crests, 

 the crests on 1st and 3rd segments large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate, the tornns with scale-tooth; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from iipper angle; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 

 about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed fi-oni 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with the stigma Y-shaped, or U-shaped vrith a spot 



beyond it ; hind wing tinged with cupreous red nu. 



B. Fore wing with the stigma U-shaped without spot beyond it; 



hind wing not red feclaUs. 



8227. Rachiplusia nu. 



Plusia mi, Guen. ]!voct. ii. p. 347 (1852). 



Pliisia dcpauperata, Blanch. Gay's Chile, Zool. vii. p. So (1852). 



Flvsia detnisa, Wlk. xii. 918 (1857). 



Plusia fiimifera, Wlk. xii. 919 (1857). 



Fltisia afrata, Giacom. Ann. Soc. Arg. Ixsii. p. 38 (1911). 



Head and thorax red-broAvn slightly mixed with whitish, the 

 tegulcB with slight dark medial line ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore 



