Plusia chalcites (Esper)

Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 163-185 : 172

23. Plusia chalcites (Esper) .

Noctua chalcytes Esper,. Die Schmett. 4: 447, pl. 141, fig. 3, 1789.

Phytometra chalcytes, Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae 13: 484, fig. 122, 1913.

Phytometra chalcites, Collenette, B. P. Bishop Mus., Bull. 114: 206, 1935.

Plusia chalcites, Tams, Ins. Samoa 3 (4): 219, 1935.

This cosmopolitan moth was not reported in Guam by Fullaway in 1911, and we did not find it common in 1936. Santa Rosa Peak, May 18, Swezey; Barrigada , June 14, Swezey; Piti , Aug. 25, Sept. 14, reared from caterpillars on morning-glory leaves, Swezey; Piti , Sept. 11, at light, Swezey. One in U. S. National Museum, Fullaway , 1911.