468 NOCTUiDJ-i. 



tips and patagia at tips Avith Waek lines defined behind hj white' 

 scales ; the spurs and tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with red-brown, some whitish haii* at base, the crests dark 

 brown and whitish at tips, the lateral tufts of male rufous. Fore 

 wing brown mixed with grey and irrorated with black, tinged m 

 parts with rufous ; subbasal line indistinctly clouble, brown filled 

 in with whitish, slightly angled outwards below costa and cell and 

 ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 brown filled in by whitish, waved ; orbicular defined by white, 

 narrow, oblique, somewhat constricted at middle ; an oblique 

 silvery- white Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail dilated into an 

 elliptical spot ; reniform very indistinct and defined by a few white 

 scales, constricted at middle ; postmedial line dark brown slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and minutely waved, somewhat bent outwards below sub- 

 median fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subtenninal 

 line blackish slightly defined on outer side by white and with short 

 black streaks before it from below costa to above vein 4, dentate ; 

 a fine waved blackish terminal line ; cilia with red-brown line near 

 base and intersected with red-brown at the veins. Hind wing red- 

 brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces of basal half with some 

 whitish ; cilia white with a maculate brown line near base ; the 

 underside white thickly irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal 

 striga and indistinct diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma consisting of a U-shaped 

 mark with spot beyond its lower extremity. 



Hab. Canada, Ottawa {Fletclier), 2 S ; U.S.A., throughout, 

 New York (Sjjei/er), 1 c? , 2 $ , Missouri {Biley), 3 S •, Alabama, 

 1 ?, Colorado, Boulder {Ooclcerell), 1 cJ , 4 $ , Denver (Oslar), 

 1 d, 3 $, California (Behr, B' Urban), 3 J , 2 2, Marina Co., 

 1 S , Arizona, Phoenix (Ktmze), 7 c? > 5 2 , Prescott (Kimze), 1 c5" , 

 1 $ ; Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), 1 d" , 2 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 34-42 millim. 



Larva. Eiley, Rept. U S. Dept. Agric. 1883, p. 119, pis i. & xi. 



Grreen with whitish dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines, sometimes 

 wanting ; 1st two pairs of prologs absent. Food-plants : Cabbage, 

 Turnip, Tomato, Heseda, Taraxicum, Ittimex, Crepis, Glienopodiiim, 

 Trifolhim, Senecio. Extremely destructive. 



8292. Phytometra ni. 



Kochia ni, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimelt., Noct. f. 284 (1802) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



2. p. 44, pi. 137. f. 1 : Prr. Neue Beitr. pi. 23. f. 1 ; Knaggs, Eiit. Aun. 



18(i9, p. 124 & 1870, f. 3; Mill. Icones, iii. p. 394, pi. 149. ff. 11-13; 



Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 169 ; Barrett, Lep. Bnt. vi. p. 128, pi. 243. f. 2 



Hu]psn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 670; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239, 

 Piusia huviilis, Wlk. sii. 915 (1867). 

 Phisia cvtrahens, Wlk. xii. 929 (1867). 

 Pluma mgnificans, Wlk. xii. 930 (1857). 



