96 Mr. J. H. Leech ooi 



Genus Hecateea. 

 Oclis. ; Walker, Cat. Lep. Het, iii, p. 508 (1857). 



945. Hecatcra confusa, sp. n. 



Head and thorax greyish-white, the latter marked with black and 

 white ; abdomen fuscous-grey. 



Primaries white, suffused and clouded with light and dark 

 grey ; sub-basal line black, straight, its lower extremity touching 

 a longitudinal Ijlack line from the base ; antemedial line black 

 edged with white, wavy, bluntly dentate on submedian nervure, 

 preceded by a conspicuous dark grey patch on the costa, and 

 followed by a transverse shade of the same colour, the latter traversed 

 by an interrupted and diffuse black line ; postmedial line black, 

 edged with white, dentated, excurved beyond the cell, shaded on 

 both sides with dark grey ; submarginal line black, wavy, inter- 

 rupted towards costa and inner margin, the costa between this line 

 and the postmedial is dark grey with three whitish dots upon it ; 

 the outer marginal area immediately beyond the submarginal is 

 white and band-like, the reniform indistinct ; fringes grey, chequered 

 with white on outer half, and preceded by a black line with black 

 dots upon it. Secondaries dark fuscous, with a small whitish 

 mark on outer margin before the anal angle, fringes tipped 

 with white. Under surface of primaries fuscous, greyish on basal 

 area, and on the costa and the outer margin, discal mark and post- 

 medial curved line blackish ; submarginal band dusky ; secondaries 

 greyish, powdered with fuscous scales, discal mai'k and line bej^ond 

 blackish ; submarginal band dusky ; fringes as above. 



Expanse 30 millim. 



One female specimen from Ta-chien-lu, taken in August. 

 HciUtat. Western China. 



946. Hecatcra dysodea. 



Noctua dysodea, Hltbn., Noct., pi. xvi, fig. 47. 

 Noctua chrysozona, Bork., Eur. Sclimett., iv, p. 264. 

 Hecatcra dysodea, Guen., Noct., ii, p. 28 (1852). 



One typical example from the high plateau to the north 

 of Ta-chien-lu. I have also one specimen with a dark 

 central band, which appears to be referable to this species, 

 from the Goorais Valley, Kashmir. 



Distribution. Europe.— Western China; Kashmir. 



