308 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



(431) 3. * Plusia falcifera. Sickle-bearing Plusia. 



P. (falcifera) grisea; alls primoribus nebula magna fusea falculam argenteam inchidente, extus ramulum emittente. 

 Sickle-bearing Plusia, grizzled, primary wings with a large brown cloud including a silver siekle-sbaped streak, which sends 

 forth on the outside a little branch. 



Expansion of the wings H inch. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac Culloch. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body gray. Antenna? and thorax, when laid bare, testaceous : primary wings gray with a faint 

 reddish tint, a broad brown spot, or cloud, almost triangular, traverses the middle of the wing, which 

 partly includes, and is partly edged, by a sickle-shaped silvery streak ; the part representing the 

 handle of the sickle, being broader than the rest, and sending forth externally near its apex a short 

 branch, which, with the internal apex of the handle, forms a fork ; the inner tine, or branch, of 

 which terminates in a slender line running in a curve to the costal margin where it touches the scu- 

 tellum ; a brown indistinct cloud, or band, also runs obliquely from the anal to the apical angle of 

 the wing ; a very minute, pale streak marks it just transversely above the former angle ; the poste- 

 rior margin is slightly indented : the secondary wings are reddish-brown, with an obsolete, pale, 

 submarginal, band. 



(432) 4. Plusia Iota. Iota Plusia. 



Plusia Iota. Ochs. Schmett. Tr. viii, 181, 20. Steph. Cat. 105, 6375, 1 ; Must. Haustell. iii, 100, 1. 



Noctua Iota. Linn. Sijst. Nat. ii, 844, 130- Fab. Ent. Sijst. Ill, ii, 81, 237. Hubn. Noct. t. lviii, /. 282. Berk. Schmett. 



iv, 79, 362. Vill. Ent. ii, 215, 192. Fuess. Schmett. 38, 717. Vieweg. Schmett. ii, 64, 64. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. ii, 1127. 



Goeze. Beitr. iii, t. iii, 127, 130, v. 



Protea. Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, 244, t. cccc, /. M. 



Interrogationis. Bork. Schmett. 792, 363. Esp. Schmett. iv, 225, t. cxiii,/. 1, 2. 



Gamma. Mull. G. L. Naturf. t. ii, 5, 6. 



Phytometra Iota. Haw. Lepidopt. 256, 5. 



Le V. D'or. Ernst. Pap. D' Eur. viii, 129, t. cccxxxvi, / 592. 



Expansion of the wings If inch. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac Culloch and in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



