PHTTOMETEA. 531 



outwards below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, angled outwards 

 at median nervure and excurved above vein 1 ; orbicular represented 

 by a slight curved golden-silvery mark below confluent with the 

 brilliant golden -silvery rather oblique stigma below the cell with a 

 small wedge-shaped rufous mark in its upper part which is defined 

 by a golden-silver streak above, its inner edge concave toAvards 

 base, an elliptical golden-silvery spot beyond its lower extremity ; 

 reniform defined by diffused brown with golden-silvery striae 

 on inner and outer sides of lower part and slight black marks 

 in upper and lower extremities, constricted at middle ; a diffused 

 brown medial line, oblicpe to lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 oblique and incurved at submedian fold where there is some 

 rufous beyond it ; postmedial line double, rather diffused, brown to 

 vein 3, then blackish filled in with gold, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, bent outwards below vein 2 and very slightly angled 

 inwards at submedian fold ; subterminal line blackish, an oblique 

 brown shade from apex to the line at vein 7, then defining its 

 inner side, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 

 4 and 3 ; cilia blackish at tips on apical half. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with cupreous red-brown, the veins and terminal area darker 

 brown ; a slight oblique brown postmedial line ; cilia pale rufous ; 

 the underside ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 brown, a slight blackish discoidal lunule, rather diffused post- 

 medial line excurved below costa, a subterminal shade except 

 towards costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark. 



Ab. 2. ii-hrevis. Fore Aving with the stigma pure silver. 



Hab. Canada, Eenfrew Co., 1 S , Nova Scotia {Tiedmari)^ 1 2 , 

 Anticosti I., 1 J' , Alberta, Calgary ( Wolley-Dod), 3 d" , 3 ? , High R. 

 {Baird), 1 2; U.S.A., New York {Boulleday, Grote), 1 cT , 2 $ 

 type u-brevis, New Jersey, New Mexico, Beulah (Oockerell), 2 $ ; 

 Hab. ign., 1 9 type, Stainton Coll. IJxj). 40-48 millim. 



8363. Phytometra macrogamma. 



Phisia macrogaviTna, Er. BuU. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 654 & 1857, i. p. 120; 

 Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schniett., Noct. f. 266 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 

 Nootua sevastina, Err. Neue Beitr. pi. 455. f. 5 (1845). 



Head and tegulse pale rufous, the latter tipped with whitish ; 

 antennae whitish ; thorax rufous mixed with greyish ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the last with the crests 

 rufous. Fore wing greyish with a golden gloss, the medial area 

 except at costa golden-rufous ; a minute black streak defined above 

 by silver above base of subcostal nervure and a black striga defined 

 on outer side by silver below the cell ; two subbasal silvery striae 

 from costa ; antemedial line silver defined on each side b} rufous, 

 excurved below costa, incurved in cell and excurved above vein 1 ; 

 orbicular represented by a slight silver lunule above median nervure 

 conjoined to an oblique brilliant silver Y-shaped stigma below the 

 cell, its arms filled in bv a small black mark and its tail dilated 



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