572 NOCTUID.'E. 



Hah. GrEEMANT, Silesia ; AusTEiA, Zeller Coll., Tirol, Mei-an 

 {Mann), Carniola ; Hungaet; Switzeeland, Frey and Leech 

 Colls.; Spain, Leech Coll., Andalusia; Lialt; S. Russia, Zeller 

 Coll. ; W. TuEKESTAN, Bokhara ; W. Sibeeia, Altai. Exp. 38- 

 44 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt, & Motlis Eur. p, 268 ; ITffm. Eaup. p. 132. 



Humped ; green with dark green lateral stripes defined hy white ; 

 somites 1-4 with subdorsal white bars, the other somites with dark 

 green lunulas defined by white. Food-plant, Tlialictrum fiavum. 

 5-6. 



8420. Phytometra SBreoides. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 20.) 



Plusia cereoides, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliil. iii. pp. 83, 541, pi. 2. f. 5 

 (1864); Ottolengni, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. vii. f. 3; Smith, Oat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 247. 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; tegulse brown and white at tips, 

 the patagia with oblique brown and white line across them and the 

 area beyond it brown and white, the dorsal crest brown and white 

 behind ; abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the crests red-brown 

 and white at tips. Fore wing violaceous pink tinged and irrorated 

 with rufous, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; subbasal line 

 red-brown, from costa to vein 1, a red-brown shade beyond it ; 

 antemedial line red-brown, inwardly oblique, slightly excurved 

 below costa and in submedian interspace ; the stigma below the 

 cell defined by red- brown, oblong and . rather inwardly oblique ; 

 reniform defined by red-brown, constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then Avith silvery- whitish 

 band on its inner side, inwardly oblique and slightly excurved at 

 middle ; subterminal line rufous, oblique from apex to discal fold 

 and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark terminal 

 line. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; an indistinct 

 curved postmedial line ; a fine dark terminal line defined on inner 

 side by white from apex to vein 2 ; cilia whitish, intersected with 

 brown at the veins. Underside whitish irrorated with brown ; fore 

 wing with the disk suffused with dark brown ; hind wing with 

 dark brown discoidal kmule, sinuous postmedial line and subter- 

 minal fine diffused in submedian interspace. 



Hah. Canada, Renfrew Co., 4 6 ■, Ottawa (Gibson), 3 c?, 

 Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 c? , Alberta, Calgary (WoUey-Bocl), 2 S , 

 2 5 , High R. (Baird), 1 S , Vancouver I., Cowichan Bay 

 (Livingstone), 1 S , 1 S; U.S.A., south to Texas and west to 

 Colorado, New York (Boubleday, B acinar d, Scudder), 3 cJ, 2 $, 

 Trenton Falls (BouUeday), 1^,1 $ , Evans Center (Grote), 2 <S , 

 1 2 . Exjj. 36-42 millim. 



Larva. Thaxter, Psyche, i p. 188. 



Pale green marked with greenish white, humped; semilooper 

 spins a white cocoon. Food-plant, Spircjea salicifolia. 



Pupa. Pale green with large black patches on back. 



