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wards, then oblique and sinuous to lower angle of cell, then obliquely 

 incurved, slightly angled inwards at vein 2 and to inner margin 

 which it reaches close to the subterminal line, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey defined on inner side by 

 brown, rather strongly towards costa, then slightly, incurved below 

 costa, then dentate, a black mark before it at inner margin and 

 some dark suffusion at apex. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia 

 chequered whitish and brown ; the underside whitish tinged and 

 irrorated with reddish brown, a dark cliscoidal striga, diffused post- 

 medial line, and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, Albany R., St. Martin's Falls 

 (Barnston), 1 $ tvpe, Ontario, Orillia (BtisTi), 1 $, Alberta, 

 Calgary {Wolley-Docl), 1 d , 1 $ , High R. (Baird), 2 c? , 1 $ , 

 Br. Columbia, Kaslo (Cockle), 1 S ; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern 

 States, Maine, Orono, 1 $ , N. York, Albany {Hill), 1 d" . Exp. 

 38-46 miUim. 



8419. Pliytometra deaurata. 



Noctua deaurata, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 110. f. 6 (1787); Dup. Lep. Fr. 

 vii. 2. p. 60, pi. 139. f. 1 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 196; Ilerr.-SchaJEf. Eur, 

 Schmett., Noct. f. 207 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 



Nociua chryson, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 765 (1792). 



Ncctua aurea, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 288 (1802), 



Flusia semiargentea, Alph. Rom. Mern. t. p. 179 (1889). 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow ; abdomen 

 oclireous white tinged with rufous, the crests red-brown at tips. 

 Fore wing bright rufous suffused with metallic gold especially on 

 medial area and apical part of costal area ; subbasal line double, 

 rufous filled in and defined on outer side by gold, sinuous, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line red-brown, angled out- 

 wards below costa, inwards at median nervure, outwards in sub- 

 median fold, then oblique ; orbicular and renif orm slightly defined 

 by rufous, the former small, rotmded, the latter strongly constricted 

 at middle, a small U-shaj)ed stigma below the cell faintly defined 

 by rufous ; a faint rufotis medial line, angled inwards below 

 costa, outwards to lower angle of cell, then oblique, sinuous ; a 

 faint oblique rufous streak beyond upper angle of cell and faint 

 rufous streaks on the veins beyond the cell ; postmedial line very 

 oblique rufous and indistinct from costa to vein 7 below apex, then 

 double, the inner line red-brown, the outer blackish oblique and 

 slightly sinuous to inner margin ; subterminal line reddish brown, 

 arising below apex, closely approximated to the postmedial line, 

 with dark points bej^ond it below veins 4 and 3 and a red-brown 

 shade from it at vein 2 to tornus with some gold before it on inner 

 margin ; a fine red-brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with red-brown, the terminal area darker red-brown ; cilia 

 whitish tinged with rufous ; the underside paler, a rather diffused 

 sinuous postmedial red-brown line. 



Ab. 1. semiargentea. Fore wing somewhat paler golden ; hind 

 wing darker. — Bokhara. 



