570 N0CTUIDJ3. 



8417. Phytometra albavitta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 18.) 



Antograplia albavitta, Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 75, pi. viii. f. 8 



(iy02); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 200. 

 Behrensia hiotsonii, Smith, Psyche, xi p. 60 (1904). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed with reddish 

 brown. Fore wing white suffused with pale rufous especially on 

 medial and postmedial areas, and with slight black irroration ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a slight black spot below costa ; antemedial 

 line blackish defined by white on inner side, the black obsolete on 

 costal area and the white strongly bent outwards, excurved from 

 costal nervure to above inner margin where it is incurved, and with 

 small black spot before it ; a U-shaped white mark below middle of 

 cell ; orbiculaar and reniform small, defined by white, the former 

 oblique V-shaped, open above, the latter narrow, the area between 

 them rather darker ; postmedial line indistinct, brownish defined by 

 white on outer side, excurved below costa, then incurved, excurved 

 at vein 4, then strongl}^ incurved, a dark-irrorated mark beyond it 

 at lower angle of cell ; subterminal line white, strong, excurved to 

 vein 6, then incm-ved, two rufous spots beyond it between veins 

 5 and 8 ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia white with some dark 

 irroration beyond the rufous spots. Hind wing white suffused with 

 pale brown ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia whitish ; the 

 undei-side with indistinct curved medial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Middle California, San Diego, Arizona, Ymna Co., 

 type t J Tiutsonii in Coll. J. B. Smith. Exj). 30 millim. 



8418. Phytometra ampla. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 19.) 



Plusia ampla, Wlk. xii, p. 910 (1857); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soo. x. 



p. 73, pi. vii. f. 6. 

 Flusia alterna, Streck. Proc. Ac. Nat. Soi. Phil. 1886, p. 178; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, 257. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulae tinged wdth 

 rufous at base and with two dark lines near tips ; mesothorax with 

 a dark line ; the thoracic crest i-uf ous at tip, the metathorax 

 chocolate-brown ; tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the crests chocolate-brown. Fore wing grey tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with a few black scales, the medial area 

 below the cell chocolate red-brown to submedian fold then dark 

 brown to inner margin ; a curved black subbasal striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line black-brown, angled outwards below costa, retracted 

 in cell, then obliquely curved ; orbicular faintly defined by silvery- 

 whitish and the upper edge of centre by dark scales, slightly con- 

 .stricted at middle ; an oblique silvery U-shajDed stigma below the 

 cell, filled in with grey defined by some dark scales, its inner arm 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; reniform with slight silvery 

 annulus defined at sides by black, narrow, oblique, its outer edge 

 indented at middle ; j)Ostmedial line black-brown defined on outer 

 side by grey, angled inwards below costa, then slightly bent ovit- 



