PHTTOMBTHA. 



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brown irrorated with grey, the sides yellowish towards base, then 

 purplish red. Fore wing dark brown suffused in parts with purple 

 and slightly striated with grey ; pale golden subbasal strise from 

 costa and cell, the former with a whitish striga beyond it ; ante- 

 medial line pale golden defined on inner side by rufous, then by 

 grey, oblique from costa, interrupted in cell and obliquely curved 

 from cell to inner margin ; the stigma below the cell pale golden, 

 Y-shaped with long curved tail and fulvous streak below it ; 

 orbicular defined by grey and by pale golden below, narrow, oblique, 

 constricted at middle ; reniform defined at sides by black and pale 

 golden, its outer edge strongly indented ; postmedial line pale 

 golden, defined on outer side by rufous then by purple, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique and sinuous below vein 2 ; 

 subterminal line blackish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and slightly angled inwards in submedian fold, with slight golden 

 suffusion before it below veins 3, 2 ; a terminal series of brown 

 striae defined on inner side by a slight golden line ; cilia with a 

 series of black points at base. Hind wing yellow with broad black 

 terminal band ; cilia ochreous with a blackish line through them ; 

 the underside irrorated with fuscous except below the cell, a 

 blackish discoidal spot, a diffused ochreous subterminal line defined 

 on inner side by blackish and on outer by brownish, angled out- 

 wards at discal fold. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Banff, type f c? in Coll. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



8382. Phytometra exquisita. 



Plusia exquisita, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 30 (1874). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with white and some black scales ; 

 tegulse with black medial line and blue-black and white tips ; 

 pectus and legs white mixed with red-brown, the tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen orange-yellow suffused with rufous, the crests deep 

 rufous with some blackish at base and white tips, the ventral 

 surface white with sublateral series of black striae. Fore wing red- 

 brown mixed with silvery-grey and irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line black defined on outer side by white, red and silvery-blue, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined 

 on inner side by white and in submedian interspace by silvery-blue 

 and some red, waved, incurved in cell ; orbicular defined by silvery- 

 white except above, oblique U-shaped; an oblique U-shaped silvery- 

 white stigma below the cell, its lower extremity conjoined to an 

 elliptical silvery- white spot, a slight white mark between its arms ; 

 reniform faintly defined by black and white scales, its outer edge in- 

 dented at middle ; postmedial line black defined on outer side by 

 creamy-white with red marks on it except between veins 4 and 2 

 and silvery-blue below costa and from vein 4 to inner margin, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, excurved below veins 7 

 and 6 and angled outwards at veins 3 and 1, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black defined on outer side by 



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