512 N0CTUID.T5. 



vein 5, then faint and sinuous, defining the darker area ; the veins 

 of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a ftne dark terminal line. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with rafous, especially on terminal area ; 

 cilia paler; the underside yellowish white slightly tinged with 

 rufous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas ; Mexico ; Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 1 c? , 1 ? , 

 Castro Paraiia (D. Jones), 1$; Ukuguay, Colon {Oldjield 

 Thomas), 1 S ; Abgentin'a, Groya (Perrms), 1 c? ; Chili {J. J. 

 Walker), 1 c^ . IJxj). 32 millim. 



8e337. Phytometra biloha. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 5.) 



Plusia biloba, Sfceph. 111. Brit. Eiit., Haust. iii. p. 104 (1832) ; Giien. Noct. 

 ii. p. 341, pi. 11. f. lU; Ottuleugui, J. N.r. Ent. Soc, x. pi. vii. L 4 ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 249. 



Head and thorax red-hrown ; tegulse rufous ; antennae white 

 ringed with brown ; abdomen brownish white, the crests and 

 ventral surface rufous. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark 

 striae, the basal costal area and the medial area except towards costa 

 suffused with cupreous gold ; a silvery point at base of costa and 

 subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line silvery defined on each 

 side by brown, angled outwards below costa, then inwardly oblique 

 and excurved below submedian fold ; a large oblique silvery bilobate 

 mark defined by blackish below the cell, its upper edge strongly 

 indented ; reniform represented by a small black spot at up)per 

 angle of cell and a silvery streak with striae from its extremities at 

 lower angle ; postmedial line sil very- whitish deli ned on each side by 

 brown, oblique, very slightly incurved below vein 4 and submedian 

 fold; subterminal line pale defined on inner side by red-brown 

 suffusion, excurved below costa and towards tornus and incurved 

 between those points ; a slight whitish line before termen from apex 

 to below vein 4, defined on inner side by red-bi-own towards apex 

 and on both sides at vein 4 ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing 

 joale cupreous red-brown, the terminal area darker ; cilia whitish 

 with a brown line near base ; the underside whitish tinged with 

 red-brown and irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga, 

 oblique postmedial line, and subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the upper edge of the silvery stigma below 

 the cell more evenly downcurved instead of indented. — Venezuela. 



Hah. N. America, 1 $ type, Stainton Coll. ; Cakada, Ottawa 

 {Gibson), 1 $; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 J, 1 5, 

 Florida {Doithleday), 1 $ , Missouri (Bilei/), 1 J , Texas, Dallas 

 (Boll), 2 cJ, 1 $, Colorado, Berkeley (Oslar), 3 $, Cahfornia 

 {D' Urban), 1 5, 'New Mexico, San Iguacio (Goc/cerell), 1 d" ; 

 Mexico, Atoyac (Schumann), 1 $ , Milpas (Forrer), 1 5 , Cordova 

 (JRwmeli), 1 5 , Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 d' , 1 $ , Codman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 Jamaica, Cinchona (Faiocett), 3 9 ; Venezuela (Dyson), 1 2 ; 

 Peru, Callao (J. J. Walker), 2 $ ; Argentina (Oldfield- Thomas), 

 1 $ ; Hawaii, Kona (Perkins), 1 <S , Lanai (Perkins). Exp. 34- 

 43 millim. 



