PHTTOMETEA. 575 



8424. Phytometra aBrea. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 21.) 



NoctiM cBvea, Hiibn. Eur. Schraett., Noct. f. 271 (1802); Dup. Lep. Fi-. 

 rii. 2. p. 17, pi. 133. f. 4 ; Meigen. Syst. Beitr. Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 250, 

 pi. 121. f. 5 ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. vii. f. 2 ; Smith, Cat, 

 Woct. N. Am. p. 247. 



Head and thorax fulvous ; patagia brown and grey behind defined 

 in front by an obliqvie brown line, the dorsal crest brown and grey 

 behind ; pectus and legs pale yellow tinged with nifous, the fore 

 legs suffused with brown in front ; abdomen pale yellow dorsally 

 tinged with brown, the basal crest dark brown and grey. Fore 

 wing purplish pink suffused with red-brown and slightly in'orated 

 with grey ; a slight brown subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line brown, rather diffused, obliquely curved ; renifomi indistinctly 

 defined by brown, its outer edge indented at middle ; an indistinct 

 waved brown medial line ; jx)stmedial line indistinctly double, 

 brown, excurved below costa, then oblique, sinuous and bent 

 outwards below submedian fold ; subterminal line dark brown 

 defined on inner side by brown suffusion and on outer by some 

 whitish scales, excm-ved below costa and angled outwards below 

 veins 4 and 3, a bright rufous patch on its inner side at inner 

 margin ; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with brown ; a brown tenninal line ; cilia whitish. Underside 

 yellowish white slightly iiTorated with brown ; fore wing with 

 the disk suffused with brown ; hind wing with slight brown 

 subterminal shade. 



Hah. Canada, Nova Scotia ; U.S.A., E. States, south to Florida 

 and Texas {Doulleday, Grote), 3 d, 2 5, Massachusetts, New- 

 York, Distr. of Columbia, Colorado, New Mexico. Ex2). 36— 

 46 millim. 



8425. Phytometra leonina. 



Plusia leonina, Oberth. ifit. Ent. x. p. 26, pi. iii. f. 11 (1884) ; Staucl. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 Plusia bieti, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 27 (1884). 

 Plusia humeralis, Butl. Ti-aus. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 135. 



c? . Head, tegulse, and prothorax ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 with a few brown scales mixed ; palpi red-brown mixed with whitish ; 

 thorax brown mixed with grey-white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with rufous ; the crests red-brown. Fore wing 

 purplish grey suffused with brown, the medial and postmedial 

 areas below the cell and vein 3 browner with a slight golden gloss ; 

 subbasal line slight, brown, angled outwards below costa and 

 ending at vein 1, a brown shade beyond it diffused towards costa ; 

 antemedial line dark brown, angled outwards below costa, oblique 

 and diffused below the cell ; the stigma below the cell represented 

 by a slight brown bar ; reniform defined by rather diffused brown, 

 narrow and lunulate ; a diffused brown medial line, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4 just beyond lower angle of cell, then oblique ; post- 



