PHYTOMETRA. 533 



side white irrorated with rufous, a sHght rufous diseoidal spot, 

 rather diffused medial and postmedial hnes, and a subterminal 

 shade. 



Ab. 1. ohscura. Fore wing much darker. 



Hah. Russia, Urals, Zeller Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai, 2 2 ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 $ , Ussuri ; Kamtschatka ; Japan, 

 Yokohama {Jonas), 1 5 type typinota. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



8365. Phytometra mappa. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 22.) 



Plusia mappa, Grrote & Rob. Trans, km. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 204 (1868); 

 Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. viii. f. 1 ; Smitb, Oat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 249. 



$ . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellowisli ; 

 abdomen ochreous white tinged with red-brown, the crests rufous, 

 the ventral surface suffused with rufous. Fore wing yellowish 

 suffused with bright rufous and irrorated with a few black scales ; 

 subbasal line represented by two curved rufous striae from costa 

 filled in with yellow and defined on outer side by yellow, a black 

 point defined above by yellow before it on subcostal nervure and a 

 minute black spot defined on outer side by yellow below the cell ; 

 antemedial line double, rufous fiUed in with yellow, incurved in cell 

 and bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular slightly defined by 

 whitish, narrow, oblique elliptical, open above ; a small silvery 

 V-shaped stigma, defined by blackish below it with an elliptical 

 silvery spot well beyond its lower extremity ; reniform slightly 

 defined by yellow with black before its outer edge, strongly 

 constricted at middle ; medial line brown, rather diffused, angled 

 inwards in cell and outwards to lower angle, then oblique and 

 sinuous ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with yellow, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly angled inwards at 

 vein 2, then waved, some yellowish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line yellowdsh defined on inner side by red-brown and 

 by black on costal half, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 angled inwards at submedian fold; a red-brown terminal line 

 defined on inner side by yellow ; cilia yellowish with a slight brown 

 line near base. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with red-brown, 

 the terminal area suffused with darker brown ; a faint sinuous 

 brown postmedial line defined on outer side by ochreous white ; a 

 slight ochreous white line before termen ; cilia ochreous with a 

 slight brownish line near base ; the underside ochreous white tinged 

 with red-brown, a slight brown diseoidal striga, rather diffused 

 postmedial hne, and subterminal shade. 



JTab. Canada, Anticosti I., 1 $ , Ontario, Orillia {Bush), 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., N. States, New Hampshire, White Mts. {BimmocJc), 1 $ , 

 Mt. Washington. Exp. 40 millim. 



