14 JOHN B. SMITH. 



T. p. line riot angulate, and as a whole outwardly oblique to bind margin. 



nelita. 

 T. p. line barely traceable ; s. t. line entirely wanting necopiaa. 



20. Deep, blackish brown, with contrasting, white, ordinary spots, reniform 



normally wide; size moderate linipida. 



As before, but much larger and the reniform is very narrow and elongate. 



eerns*ata. 

 Yellow to red-brown ; ordinary spots concolorous or paler; never white- • -21. 

 Yellow to red-brown : ordinary spots wholly or partly white 22. 



21. Dull, powdery red-brown ; t. p. line gemiuate, rather even, median shade 



well marked ; ordinary spots indefined, dusky frigida. 



• Even, reddish luteous, all the lines denned but not contrasting; t. p. line 

 lunulate; s. t. line well defined, preceded by a dusky s. t. shade. 



nnimoda. 



More.reddish ; ordinary spots obscured by a smoky shade, outer portion of t. 



p. line forming a purplish fascia angelica. 



Yellow, powdered with purplish ; basal space mostly purplish, and all beyond 

 the t. p. line except apex, well shaded with the same color. 



ealapliracla. 

 Rusty red-brown, very powdery; s. t. space purplish; median shade broad, 

 well marked, blackish ; apex of primaries unusually acute. 



impecuniosa. 



22. Reniform moderate in size or rather small, the lower part not perceptibly 



larger than the upper ; basal space not white marked 23. 



Reniform large or very large; the lower part distinctly larger than the 

 upper ; basal space usually white marked 24. 



23. Yellowish to red-brown, even, not powdery; t. p. line not contrasting; s. t. 



space hardly darker or purplish circimi I ncens. 



Red-brown, strongly powdered so as to give a rusty appearance; t. p. line 

 prominent, purplish, as are also most of the s. t. and terminal spaces. 



rulila. 



24. Bright, deep, red-brown, strougly shaded with purplish, especially in s. t. 



space ; basal space white marked appasionata. 



Paler, more brick red, with the purplish shadings scarcely contrasting; base 



of wing white marked margin ideas. 



Very pale, almost straw yellow; no white marks inside of basal line; no 



purplish shadings; all the markings brown and well defined. . farcata. 



II > drrecia albilnaata nom. nov., pi. 1, fig. 1, % genitalia. 

 lunata Smith. 



1891. — Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xviii, 110, Apamea. 



1891.- -Smith, List Lepidoptera, 45, Hydrcecia 

 Ground color a reddish clay yellow with vague smoky shadings. Head and 

 thorax without obvious markings. Primaries with the median lines rather fee- 

 ble, evident, single, whitish. T. a. line rather well removed from the base, not 

 at all prominent, rather evenly outcurved. The t. p. line better marked, but not 

 in any way contrasting, evenly outcurved over the cell and rather evenly oblique 

 below that point to the inner margin. The s. t. line is very faintly indicated. It 

 is marked near the costa by a slight difference, in shade between the apex and 

 the space immediately within it, is traceable irregularly almost to the middle of 



