PHTTOMETEA. 573 



8421. Phytometra masoni, 



Plusia masoni, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 238 (1894); Druce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 504, pi. 96. f. 12. 



S . Head and tliorax chocolate-brown mixed with grey-white ; 

 tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown tinged 

 with grey, the crests dark brown and grey at tips. Fore wing 

 chocolate-brown thickly irrorated with grey-white ; antemedial 

 line grey-white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, 

 then stronger and inwardly oblique ; the stigmata defined by 

 fine grey- white lines, the orbicular narrow and oblique, the stigma 

 below the cell bilobate, its outer edge angled inwards on vein 2 

 and its upper part extending to lower angle of cell ; the reniform 

 with its upper and lower parts produced to points, its outer edge 

 strongly angled inwards at middle ; postmedial line grey- white, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very slightly sinuous, and 

 slightly excurved below vein 2, defined on outer side by a narrow 

 grey- white band arising from apex ; the veins of terminal half 

 with slight whitish streaks ; a fine slightly waved whitish sub- 

 terminal line and a fine crenulate line just before termen. Hind 

 wing red-brown, the cell and area just below and beyond it 

 whitish ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ; hind wing 

 whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with red-brown, 

 a brownish discoidal striga and diffused postmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), 6 S, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 JExp. 40 millim. 



8422. Phytometra peponis. 



Noctua peponis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 608 (1775). 



Plusia agramma, Guen. Nocfc. ii. p. 327 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ill. 



p. 72, pi. 152. ff. 3, 3a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p, 674; Staud. Oat. 



Lep. pal. p. 239. 

 Plusia inclioata, Wlk. xxxiii. 841 (1865). 

 Plusia fumif era, Grteser, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 263 (1889). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown, the tegulse and dorsal 

 crest in front tinged with red, the former with grey tips ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with iDrown, the 

 terminal area with a cupreous tinge except towards tornus ; sub- 

 basal line brown faintly defined on outer side by whitish, from 

 costa to submedian fold, a patch of brown suffusion beyond it ; 

 antemedial line very indistinct, double, brown filled in with gre}^, 

 angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique, a 

 dark brown shade beyond it below the cell extending below 

 vein 2 to the postmedial line ; orbicular hardly traceable, with 

 faint pale annulus, round ; reniform with faint pale annulus 

 and slight dark marks in upper and lower parts, narrow ; 

 postmedial line very indistinctly double, brown, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous to submedian fold. 



