PHTTOMETRA. 525 



indistinct, red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards 

 below veins 4> and 3 ; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner 

 side by grey except towards tornus. Hind wmg cupreous red-brown, 

 the terminal area rather darker ; cilia whitish with a brown line 

 near base ; the underside whitish irrorated with red-brown, a slight 

 brown discoidal striga and rather diffused medial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell forming a 

 Y-mark. 



Hah. Canada, Ottawa (FletcAer), 3 d" , Ontario, Orillia {Bush), 

 1 S ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverley {Burg), 2 $ , New York 

 {Douhleday, Packard, Bileij), 7 c? , 6 $ type, Trenton Falls 

 {Bouhleday), 1 6,1 $ , Pennsylvania, New Brighton {Merrick), 

 1 § , Illinois, Chicago {Schleiter), 1 6 . JExp. 36-42 millim. 



Larva. Par^karcl, Guide to the Study of Insects, p. 312. 



Green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish ; lateral stripe whitish, 

 more distinct ; head with lateral black stripes. Food-plant, Holly- 

 hock. 7-8. 



8355. Phytometra sestertia. 



Fhisia sestertia, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 31 (1874). 

 IHusia mapongua, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 8 (1894). 



$ . Head and thorax silvery- white mixed with deep chocolate- 

 brown, the tegulse except at tips pale rufous ; palpi and sides of f rons 

 black-brown, the former with some ochreous at exti'emity of 2nd 

 joint and in front of 3rd joint ; pectus and legs black-brown mixed 

 with white, the fore tibise ochreous white in front, the tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen brownish grey, the basal crest pale rufous. 

 Fore wing brilliant silver sparsely irrorated with black-brown and 

 tinged in parts with pale rufoixs, the costal area thickly irrorated 

 with black-brown, a large deep chocolate-brown patch on medial 

 area below the cell and beyond its lower angle, the area before the 

 subterminal line suifused with deep chocolate-brown except at 

 middle ; a subbasal silvery striga from costa defined on outer side 

 by black-brown ; antemedial line silver defined on each side by 

 black-brown, excurved below costa and at vein 1 ; a brilliant silvery 

 stigma below the cell consisting of a large oblique U-shaped mark 

 with silvery point above its outer extremity in the cell, and a rather 

 diamond-shaped mark beyond its lower extremity, sometimes 

 touching it ; reniform elliptical, defined by deep chocolate-brown 

 and with a minute silver point at its lower inner extremity ; 

 postmedial line double, black-brown, indistinct and filled in with 

 white towards costa, then filled in "with silver, reduced to points 

 between veins 4 and 2, bent outwards below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold, incurved below 4 and slightly excurved at vein 1, some 

 small white spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line silvery 

 defined on inner side by deep chocolate-brown except at middle, 

 slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, then bent inwards, then 



