256 NOCTUID^. 



Hah. Mexico City (Hoecje), 1 c? type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Abdomen dark red-brown ; fore wing with three white 

 spots on lower part of reniform ; the area in, beyond, and above end 

 of cell suffused with brown ; hind wing suffused with brown in 

 male, darker in female. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trvjillo), 1 c? , 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. 



1490. Hydrceciodes azteca. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 5.) 



Hydrcecia azteca, Scliaus, ined. 



Head and thorax orange mixed with brown ; palpi brown ; 

 tegulse brown edged with orange ; patagia orange edged with brown ; 

 tarsi brown with pale bands ; abdomen brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish irrorated with brown and the anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wing orange-yellow thickly irrorated with rufous ; the veins streaked 

 with brown ; a waved subbasal rufous line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line defiued by yellow on inner 

 side; claviform defined by brown; orbicular and reniforra moderate, 

 defined by brown and with white points on their annuli ; a promi- 

 nent oblique slightly curved medial line ; postmedial line somewhat 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved, some yellow points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 

 the area beyond it purplish brown except at apex ; cilia dark brown. 

 Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, especially on inner 

 and terminal areas ; the underside ochreous, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial line on costal half. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa, type t c? in Coll. Schaus ; Orizaba, 1 5 • 

 Ex'p. 38 millim. 



1491. Hydrceciodes cauta. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 6.) 



Hydracia cauta, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 235 (1903). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the vertex of head 

 with some ochreous, the tegulae with some red ; legs irrorated with 

 ochreous, the tibia? and tarsi ringed with ochreous ; abdomen 

 with some ochreous in anal tuft, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 ochreous. Fore wing dark brown, almost entirely suffused with deep 

 fiery red ; a dark waved antemedial line ; reniform small, ochreous 

 white with fiery -red centre ; postmedial line minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, somewhat dentate at median nervure. then 

 oblique, some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 red, defined by a dark shade on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown with a yellowish tinge ; cilia pale with a 

 dark line through them and pinkish tips; the underside pale, 

 thickly irrorated with dark brown, the costal area tinged with 

 purplish pink, a black discoidal spot and curved strigiform post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Costa Rica, 1 $,typet $ in Coll. Schaus; J i" Coll. 

 Joannis. Exp. 30 millim. 



