Upper Side. Antennæ filiform. Body grey. Wings pale yellowish grey. A narrow yellow bar rises near the middle of the anterior wings, which, crossing them and the posterior, ends a little below the body on the abdominal edges; another small bar crosses the anterior wings near the shoulders, both of them being verged with silver. A small dark spot, surrounded with silver, is also placed close to the external edges of the posterior wings; and above it is a yellowish patch reaching to the upper corners.
Under Side. Wings pale light-coloured, almost white, immaculate. Margins of the wings entire.
PETASIA? MINISTRA.
Plate [XIV]. fig. 3.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Notodontidæ, Steph.
Genus. Petasia? Stephens. Phalæna (Noctua), Drury.
Petasia? Ministra. Alis anticis rufescenti-fulvis, strigis quinque transversis, posticis pallidioribus ♀. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.)
Syn. Phalæna Noctua Ministra, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Phalæna Ministra, Abbot & Smith Ins. Georg. t. 81. Oliv. Enc. Méth. 5. 69. 155.
Habitat: New York.