540 NocTUid:. 



oblique brown shade from costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line double, chocolate-brown filled in with whitish and with silvery- 

 white below vein 2, bent outwards below costa, then oblique to 

 vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then excurved and slightly angled 

 inwards at submedian fold, a white shade beyond it and some white 

 points at costa ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, excurved below 

 vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark ter- 

 minal line defined on inner side by white from below apex to vein 2. 

 Hind wing pale cupreous brown, the terminal area deep cupreous 

 brown, a slight whitish postmedial shade ; cilia white with a brown 

 line near base ; the underside pale rufous, the costal area iiTorated 

 with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight brown 

 discoidal striga and indistinct diffused postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Tore wdng with the spot of the stigma separate from 

 the Y-mark. — Newfoundland. 



Hah. New^foundland, Doyles, Cadroy Valley (Beddek), 1 J ; 

 Canada, Cape Breton, 1 c? tyP^> Hudson's Bay, Albany E.., St. 

 Martin's Falls (JBarnston), 1 $ , Alberta, Calgary {Wolley-Dod), 

 16,19, Br. Columbia, Revelstoke {Mrs. Nicholl), 1 6 ; 

 U.S.A., California {Walsingliam), 1 5- Exp. 42-46 millim. 



8372. Phytometra californica. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 25.) 



Flusia californica, Speyer, Stett. Ent. ZeiK xsxvi. p. ] 64 (1875); Ottolengui, 

 J. N.Y.Ent. Soc. X. pi. viii. f. 11 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 252. 



Head and thorax ptirple-grey mixed with chocolate-brown, the 

 tegulte with black-brown lines near base, at middle, and near tips 

 defined behind with white, the metathoracic crest tipped -with 

 black-brown and white ; pectus and legs grey and rufoiis, the spurs 

 and tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 brown, the crests darker with grey tips. Fore wing pale glossy 

 purplish grey irrorated with black and suffused in parts vdth 

 chocolate-brown, the medial area with a patch of deep chocolate- 

 brown below the cell and some golden cupreous before the post- 

 medial line in submedian interspace ; subbasal line silvery defined 

 on each side by chocolate-brown, exciu'ved below costa and ending 

 at vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery- white defined on each side by 

 chocolate -brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly bent 

 inwards in cell, then oblique and excurved above vein 1 ; orbicular 

 defined by diffused white, naiTow, oblique ; an oblique silvery 

 Y -shaped stigma below the cell, its tail slightly dilated at extremity ; 

 reniform with silvery- white outline, its inner edge oblique, its outer 

 strongly constricted at middle with a slight black mark beyond it 

 and black marks in its extremities ; an oblique dark shade from 

 costa to lower angle of cell and indistinct oblique sinuous line from 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled 

 in with white, bent outwards below costa, then obhque and slightly 

 waved to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then excurved and 

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

 costa ; subterminal line chocolate-brown with- chocolate-brown 



