PHTTOMETRA. 541 



suffusion before it from vein 7 to 4, slightly waved, bent outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved below veins 4 and 3 ; a white line before 

 ternien from jvist below costa to vein 2 with chocolate-brown 

 suffusion before it ; a terminal series of slight dark lunulas ; cilia 

 brown and white with fine waved white lines at base and middle. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the terminal area dark 

 cupreous brown ; cilia white, chequered with dark brown at base 

 from apes to vein 2 ; the underside white irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (WoUey-Bod), 16, 1 $, 

 Br. Cohunbia {Lord), 1 6 , Ashnold {Mrs. NicJioll), 1 $, Bear 

 Creek {Mrs.. Nicholl), 1 ?, Duncan's {Hanham), 1 $, Kaslo 

 {Fletcher, CocMe), 1 c? , 1 $ , Vancouver I. (i?/«/Z, J". J". WalJcer), 

 2 c? , 2 $ , CoMdchan Bay {Livingstone), 2 $ ; U.S.A., Colorado 

 {Gockerell), 2 $ , Berkeley {Oslar), 2 $ , California {Osten-Sacken, 

 Walsingham, _D' Urhan), 1 6 ,2 $ , Kern Co., 1 6 , Havilah, 1 6 ■ 

 Exp. 36-44 millim. 



Larva. Djar, Ent. Am. vi. p. 14. 



Dark green, dorsal line white slightly sinuous and interrupted, 

 subdorsal line white ; lateral line white, rather broader ; a white 

 stigmatal stripe, diffused below ; warts w^hitish with white hairs, 

 the suprastigmatal warts with black centres ; 4th-9th somites with 

 small dorsal black spots on anterior part of somites ; spiracles white 

 with black ring ; head green, the jaws and palpi black ; the head 

 sometimes with black stripe ; three pairs of prolegs. Pupates in a 

 thin web of white silk. Food-plant, Malva. 



8373. Phytometra flagellum. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 26.) 



Tlusia flagellum, Wlk. xii. p. 909 (1857); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soo. 



X. pi. ix. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat Noct. N. Am. p. 2.51. 

 riusia monodon, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 202 (1875). 

 Flusia insolita, Smith, Ent. News Pbilad. vii. p. 30, pi. xv. f. 17 (1896). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; tegulse with 

 slight dark line at middle defined behind by white and white tips, 

 the patagia with oblique white line near base and white tips, the 

 meta thoracic crest tipped with white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 greyish mixed with brown, the tarsi ringed with white, the 

 abdominal crests red-brown and Avhite. Pore wing silvery-grey 

 suffused and irrorated with dark reddish brown ; subbasal line 

 doiible, silvery-white and obliquely curved from costa near the 

 antemedial line to median nervure, where there is a black point 

 above it, then with double silvery strise filled in with black ; ante- 

 medial line silvery, slightly defined on inner side by red-brown and 

 strongly on outer side by dark brown, strongly angled outwards 

 below costa and inwards at median nervure, then obliquely curved ; 

 orbicular with silvery outline and its centre defined by blackish, 

 oblique elliptical ; a very oblique and elongate silver Y-shaped 

 stigma below the cell, its arms with whitish between them and its 

 tail extending to near the postmedial line ; reniform with slight 



