28 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Hydroecia inquresita G. &. R., pi. 1, fig. 17, £, genitalia. 



1868.— G. & E., Trans. Am. Ent. Soo., i, 344, Gortyna. 



1873.— Grote, Bull. Buff. Soo. Nat. Sri., i, 110, Hydrcecia. 



1374.— Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 18, Hydrcecia. 



1882. — Grote, New List, 29; Gortyna qusesita err. ryp. 



1882. — Grote, Can. Ent., xiv. 170, Apamea. 



1893.— Smith. Bull. 44 U. S. Nat. Mus., 176, Hydrcecia. 

 Ground color yellowish brick red, powdered with rusty red and deeper brown. 

 Mead and thorax with a tendency to a violet shading, particularly on the collar 

 and on the edges of the patagise, but this is not uniform. Primaries with most 

 of the markings fairly well defined. The basal line is geminate, brown, hardly 

 defined and in some specimens scarcely traceable. T. a. line geminate, the de- 

 fining lines very narrow, brown, with a slight and rather even outcurve to the 

 submedian interspace, and then a broader outcurve reaching the inner margin at 

 the same point reached by the median shade line. T. p. line geminate, brown, 

 outer line very distinctly darker and with a more violet shading: broadly bent 

 or curved outwardly ; the point nearest to the margin being at about the middle 

 of the wing. The line is somewhat irregular on the eosta; but very even on the 

 incurve. S. t. line irregular, defined by the somewhat darker, more purplish s. t. 

 space. The apex is of the paler ground color. Median shade very distinct, nar- 

 row, unusually well defined, angulated at about the middle of the wing, so that 

 when viewed a little from the side it forms a perfect right angle. There is a 

 dark, narrow, terminal line. All the veins are black marked, and their course 

 is easily traceable throughout the entire wing. The ordinary spots are small, 

 usually not very well defined. The orbicular is round or a little oval, somewhat 

 paler than the ground color, although it may be contrastingly white. The reni- 

 t'onn is upright or nearly so, kidney shaped, very poorly defined in most cases, 

 sometimes with white marks around the edges. The claviform is very small, 

 usually a little paler, yellowish, divided in the middle by a narrow brown line, 

 which runs through the submedian interspace. In some cases it is white marked. 

 Secondaries smoky, yellowish, sometimes with a tendency to a reddish shade, 

 with a fairly well-marked smoky median line and often an obvious discal liinule. 

 All the veins are dusky. Beneath pale, dirty yellowish, often with a reddish or 

 carmine washing. Both wings with a more or less complete outer line and a 

 traceable discal lunule. The veins on both wings are also dark marked. Ex- 

 panse 1.05 -1.50 in. ; 26-37 mm. 



Hab. — Kittery Point, Maine, August 18th. Long Island, N. Y., 

 September 19th. New Hampshire in September. Generally dis- 

 tributed throughout the Northern and Central States cast of the 

 Mississippi. 



This species is by no means a common one, and SO far as shown 

 by the specimens at hand seems to be very little subject to variation. 

 The examples differ in size to a considerable extent, but very little 

 in any oilier way. Ordinarily the spot- arc not white marked, but 

 exceptionally they may become so. The very even geminate median 

 lines and the very distinct and perfectly rectangular bend of the 

 prominent median shade serve as distinguishing characters. The 



