PHTTOMETEA. 577 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the gold patch tinged with green and not 

 extending to the subterminal line. — Corea. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; S. Gekmant, Zeller Coll. ; Austria ; 

 Hungary ; Switzerland, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Greece, 

 Merlin Coll. ; Eumelia ; Eussia, Urala ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai ; E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Prj/er), 

 1 $ , Tokio {Maries), 1 S , Yokohama (Frt/er), 1 (^ ; Corea, 

 Gensan, 1 $ . JSxp. 44-58 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 97, pi. 240. f. 4 ; 

 HiTm. Raup. p. 134, pi. 35. f. 9. 



Green ; dorsal line darker and edged with white ; a lateral series 

 of oblique white streaks ; spiracles white. Food-plant, Eupatorium. 

 6-7. 



8427. Phytometra balluca. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 22.) 



Byachrysia balluca, Geyer, ZutrJige, iv. p. 22, If. 681-2 (1832) ; Ottolengui, 

 J. N.Y. Enl. Soe. x. pi. vii. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 248. 



Head, tegulse, and prothorax pale rufous ; palpi and antennae 

 brownish grey, the latter with the basal joint white in front, 

 the tegulse brown at tips ; thorax grey-brown mixed with white, 

 the dorsal crest with some rufous in front ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with brown ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged 

 with rufovis, the crests red-brown tipped with whitish. Fore 

 wing piu'plish grey tinged with red-brown and suffused with 

 silvery-green except the costal area and cell, the veins finely 

 streaked with red-brown ; a brown subbasal striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line brown, excurved to median nervure where it is 

 retracted, then oblique ; a curved brown discoidal striga with an 

 oblique brown shade above it from costa ; postmedial fine golden- 

 brown, bent outwards below costa, slightly excurved to vein 4, 

 then slightly incurved ; a faint subterminal golden-brown shade, 

 excurved at vein 7 and below veins 4 and 3 ; a white line just 

 before termen with a cupreous brown shade before it from apex to 

 vein 4. Hind wing red-brown, the cilia brownish white. Under- 

 side pale yellow ; fore wing with the disk suffused with brown ; 

 hind wing with dark discoidal point, postmedial line excurved 

 below costa, and subterminal shade towards tornus. 



Hal). Canada, Renfrew Co., 1 S ■, Nova Scotia (Sedman), 1 $ , 

 Ontario, Orillia {Bush), 2 $ ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and 

 Middle States, 1 c? , 2 $ , Trenton Falls {DouUeclay), 1 S . Exp. 

 52-60 millim. 



Larva. Saunders, Cau. Ent. v. p. 11 ; Lint. Ent. Cont. iii. Rep. N. York 

 State Cab. xxvi. p. 163. 



Yellowish green streaked and spotted with white ; sublateral 

 line greenish white ; tubercles green striped with white, small 

 on thoracic somites, much larger and ten or twelve on each somite 

 on the abdominal but absent on anal somite, each tubercle with a 

 single whitish hair. Underside deeper green with a few short 

 whitish hairs ; head shining green with a few whitish hairs. Food- 

 plant, Humuliis. 



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