PHTTOMETEA. 529 



line just before termen from costa to vein 3, double towards 

 costa ; a terminal series of slight dark brown lunules and strise ; 

 cilia brownish at base, grey-white at tips. Hind mng whitish 

 tinged with brown, the terminal area broadly fuscous brown -with 

 a cupreous tinge ; cilia white with a brown line near base ; the 

 underside white thickly irrorated with brown, oblique brown medial 

 and postmedial rather indistinct lines, and a broad diffused sub- 

 terminal shade. 



Hah. Natal, Durban {E. L. Clark), 2 $ type. JExp. 38 

 millim. 



8360. Phytometra corusca. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 19.) 



Plusia corusca, Streck. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1885, p. 178 ; Otto- 

 lengiii, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. x. pi. vii. f. 15 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, 

 p. 257. 



Head and thorax rufous, the tips of tegulaj and patagia, an 

 oblique line across middle of latter and the tips of scales of meta- 

 thoracic crest grey- white ; antennse ringed with white towards base ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous tinged with rufous ; abdomen brownish 

 ochreous, the crests brown and grey at tips. Fore wing purple- 

 grey tinged with brown, the medial area below the cell pvirple- 

 brown ; subbasal line silvery- white, defined on each side by black 

 towards costa and on inner side below the cell ; antemedial line 

 silvery- white defined on outer side by black except in cell, on inner 

 side also towards inner margin and on outer side by brown towards 

 costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, then waved and more strongly 

 excurved above vein 1 ; orbicular defined by black and by silvery- 

 white below, small, round ; an irregular silvery- white Y-shaped 

 stigma defined by black below the cell, its tail angled outwards 

 and dilated into a spot ; renif orm with slight incomplete silvery- 

 white annukis defined by blackish, strongly constricted at middle 

 where there is a black spot on its outer edge, its lower part with a 

 black spot in it ; a small blackish-brown spot at middle of costa ; 

 postmedial line Avith small blackish-brown spot at costa, then 

 obsolescent and brownish to vein 4, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved, below vein 4 silvery-white defined on each 

 side by black marks, waved, angled inwards at vein 2 and sub- 

 median fold, a blackish-brown mark beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish defined on inner side by blackish with golden-brown 

 suffusion before it, excm^ved at vein 7, angled inwards at discal 

 fold and outwards below veins 4 and 3, angled inwards at vein 2 

 and ending at tornus ; the terminal area with some golden-brown 

 suffusion at apex and middle ; cilia chequered blackish bi'own and 

 white. Hind wing ochreous suffused with cupreous brown ; 

 a brownish subterminal shade ; cilia white chequered vdth golden 

 brown ; the underside ochreous tinged with rufous, a faint brownish 

 subterminal shade. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I., 1 $ ; U.S.A., Washington, 1 c? , 

 Colorado. Exp. 38-42 milHm. 



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