492 NOCTUID^. 



whitish. Fore wing cupreous red mixed with purplish grey and 

 slightly irrorated with black-brown ; subbasal double red-brown 

 striae from costa ; antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side 

 by whitish and on both sides towards costa, angled outwai-ds below 

 costa and obliquely curved below the cell ; an oblique Y-shaped 

 silvery- white stigma below the cell, filled in with inifous and defined 

 by blackish ; reniform with faint pale annulus and its centre 

 defined by dark brown, open above and strongly constricted at 

 middle ; ti-aces of a sinuous medial red-brown line ; postmedial Hne 

 double, red-brown filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique and very slightly waved, angled inwards at vein 2, 

 then excurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line dark brown with some dark suffusion before it at discal fold, 

 excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; 

 a terminal dark brown line defined on inner side by a whitish line ; 

 a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown ; cilia 

 white with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 tinged with rufous and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with red-brown, a small brown discoidal lunule and in- 

 distinct postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, New Brunswick, St. John, Manitoba, Cartwright, 

 Alberta, Calgary ( Wolley-Bod), 1 $ . Exp. 40 milHm. 



8320. Phytometra accentifera. 



rhisia accentifera, I.ef. Ann. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1827, p. 94, pi. 5. ff. 1, 2; 



Mill. Icones, pi. 70. ff. 2-4; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239. 

 Pltisia laureioni, Frr. Neue Beitr. i. p. 43, pi. 23. f. 3 (1S31). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with reddish brown, the tegulse 

 at tips and the patagia above edged with brown and grey, the 

 metathoracic crest tipped with brown ; tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen ochreous, the crests red-brown and grey. Fore 

 wing greyish ochreous tinged and irrorated with red-brown ; sub- 

 basal line slight, ochreous defined on each side by red-brown, from 

 costa to vein 1, a red-brown patch beyond it below the cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, ochreous defined on each side by red- 

 brown, oblique, waved, a blackish mark before it at inner margin ; 

 orbicular with faint ochreous annulus defined on outer side by 

 brown, narrow, oblique ; an oblique stigma slightly defined at sides 

 by silver below the cell, its lower extremity produced to a slight 

 point on inner side and a longer point on outer, a chocolate-brown 

 patch beyond it below and beyond lower end of cell ; reniform 

 chocolate-brown faintly defined at sides by ochreous ; postmedial 

 line double, red-brown filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below 

 costa, then slightly waved, excurved at middle, then incurved, 

 some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight, 

 silvery defined on inner side by chocolate-brown shades from below 

 costa to vein 4 and towards inner margin, excurved below vein 7, 

 incurved at middle to the po&tmedial line, and with s-light dentate 



