522 NOCTUIDiE. 



8351. Phytometra oo. 



Phalana oo, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 45, pi. 311. f. E (1782), nee f. F. 

 Flusia rogationis. Guen. Ni»ct. ii. p. 344 (1862); Druce, Biol. Ceiitr.-Ain., 



Het. i. p. 331 ; Ottolengni, J. N.Y. Ent. Sol-, x. p. 66, pi. ix. f. 1 ; Suiitli, 



Oat. Noet. N. Am. p. 2.50. 

 Flusia includens, Wlk. xii. 914 (18."i7). 

 Flusia hamifera, Wlk. xii. 917 (1857). 

 Flusia binotula, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-niin. Ver. Regensb. 



xsii. p. 184 (1868). 

 Flusia dyaus, Gri-ote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 203 (1875). 

 Flusia pertusa, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 390 (1880). 

 Flusia culta, Lintner, 2iid Report Ins. N. York, p. 99 (1885) ; Sinitb, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 251. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey- white, the 

 teguliB with sliglit black line at middle and whitish tips, the 

 patagia with whitish edges and oblique whitish line near middle ; 

 abdomen grej-brown, the crests darker, the ventral surface wliitish 

 irrorated with brown. Eore wing purplish grey irrorated with red- 

 brown and with a cupreous golden gloss, the medial area with a 

 deep red-brown patch below the cell ; subbasal line silvery defined 

 on each side by red-brown and with red-brown patches before and 

 beyond it below the cell, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 silvery defined on each side by red-brown, excurved below eosta, 

 angled inwards in cell, then oblijue ; orbicular whitish, oblique 

 elliptical ; an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the cell with a 

 spot bevond its lower extremity ; reniform deep red-brown with 

 slight incomplete pale annulus with silvery striie on its lower part, 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line double red-brown, bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle and 

 angled inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on 

 costa and an oblique whitish shade from costa to vein 5 ; sub- 

 terminal line dark brown, excurved below vein 7, angled outwards 

 below veins 4 and 3 and incurved at vein 2, some golden brown 

 suffusion before and beyond it from costa to below vein 4 and before 

 it towards inner margin ; a slight waved dark terminal line with a 

 narrow whitish band before it. Hind Aving cupreous brown ; cilia 

 whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga, rather diffused 

 postmedial line and subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the U-shaped stigma conjoined to the 

 spot. 



Sal). U.S.A., Eastern States, Florida, Indian R. {Donhledai/), 

 1 $, Texas (Boll), 2 d, 2 $ tj'pe di/atcs, Colorado; Mexico, 

 Jalapa (Tnijillo, Roege), 2 c?, 4 $, Coatepec {Brooks), \ S,- 

 Ouerrero, Tierra Colorado (ff. II . Smith), 1 § , Venta de Zopilote 

 (JT. R. Smith), 1 c?, Vera Paz (Champion), 1 $; Guatemala, 

 San Isidro (Champion), 1 6 , Cerro Zunil (Champion), 1 2 ; Costa 

 Rica, Candelaria Mts. ( JJnderwood), 3 S ; Panama, Chiriqui 

 {Champion), 2 $, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Bermuda (Nicholl), 

 1 5; Cuba, Tanamo (Schaus), 1 6; Haiti (Tweedie), 2 5 type 



