144 GRAPE-VINE. LEAVES SPECIES OF PLUME-MOTHS. 



wards their tips brownish black. An oblique tawny yellow band ending in white on 

 the outer margin extends across the outer lobe near its base, and on the apex of the 

 outer margin is a white stripe. The fringe along their inner margin is blackish, with 

 a few white hairs forming a small spot at ils apex, another white spot forward of it, 

 a larger one towards the base of the inner lobe, and a small one forward of the base 

 of this lobe. The lyind wings and their fringes are blackish brown, and the inner lobe 

 near the middle of its inner side sends out some coal black scales forming a spot of 

 this color ill the fringe, with a faint ash gray spot immediately forward of it. Be- 

 neath, the wings are blackish brown and the anterior pair have three equidistant 

 white strraUs on the outer margin, the first rather forward of the middle and the last 

 on the apex; the outer lobe of the hind wings has a white spot near its tip. the inner 

 lobe has a slight white spot on its apex and another on the middle of its inner mar- 

 gin. The antennse are black with white rings, and on their under sides ash grey. 

 The abdomen has white stripe s on its under side. The legs are striped alternately 

 with black and white and are banded with a broom-like tuft of black scales at each 

 pair of spines. The spines are white, their bahes, under sides, and also the tips of 

 those on the middle shanks, black. The feet are white with a black band on the apex 

 of each joint, and the first joint of the two anterior pairs has ablack sliipe on its 

 outer side. The wings when spread measui-e 0.80 from tip to tip. Taken the last 

 of June on bushes in meadows. 



The Slender-lobed Plume (P. tenuidactylus) is of a dark tawny brown color 

 somewhat tinged with coppery red, and on the fore wings has a white spot towards 

 the base of each lobe, and often on the outer lobe a transverse white streak between 

 the spot and the apex; their fringe is whitish, with a bUck .ipot in the middle and 

 larger one at the apex of the inner margin. The hind wings are of the same color, 

 their lobes very slender, the inner one thread-like, white^ its fringes while wiih a 

 broad black band near the tip. The legs are nhite, striped wiih black, the feet and 

 hind shanks with black bands. The antennse are while with a slender black ring to 

 each joint. The abdomen is blackish, and at base on the under side silvery white. 

 The wings when extended measure 0.60 across. This species is common upon brakes 

 and other weeds growing in swamps in the middle of July, 



The Ashy Plume (P. cineridactylus) is ash gray throughout, of a darker tint 

 upon the breast. The fore wings are sprinkled with, blackish brown atoms, chiefly 

 towards the inner margin and the base. The antenuEe have a pale brown ring on each 

 joint, which is widely interrupted on the under side. The feet and shanks are whitish 

 and the hind shanks have a faint brownish band at tip and another on the middle. 

 The expanded wings measure 0.75. Taken the fore part of July, in yards around 

 dwellings. 



The Bkown-bokdfred Pldme (P. marginidactylus) is tawny brown the fore 

 wings varied with -Bhite cloud-like spots, whereof there is one on the outer margin 

 towards the tip and two on the inner margin, the apical and outer margins and a 

 cloud-like central space extending from the cleft inwards are of a dark brown color- 

 fringe whitish, brown at the outer and inner apical angles, and a small brown spot 

 beyond the middle of the inner margin ; under side and hind wings pale tawny brown- 

 legs while, thighs, anterior shanks and apical third of the hind shanks brownish on 



