22 N0CTUIDJ5. 



Sect. II. Antenna of mule bipectiuate with short branches ending in a 

 bristle ; fore wing with the termen slightly angled at vein 3, then 

 oblique to tornus. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal areas purplish 



fuscous, the veins of former streaked with white retis. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal areas rufous caduca. 



4315. Gortyna retis. 



Eusfrotia retis, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 198 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 311. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with blackish and pale 

 purplish piuk ; palpi and frons blackish ; tarsi black-brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen black-brown mixed with greyish and with 

 sublateral series of black points. Fore wing black-brown suffused 

 with violaceous grey, the veins with slight pale streaks, veins 4, 3 

 and veins 2 and 1 beyond postmedial line streaked with white ; 



Fig. 4. — Gortyna retis, $ . \. 



subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; diffused 

 oblique black bars across submedian interspaces and above inner 

 margin before the antemedial line, which is indistinctly double, 

 waved, somewhat oblique : claviform faintly defined by black scales ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, with brownish centres defined by 

 black and white annuli denned by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the latter oblique and angled inwards on median nervure, 

 the area beyond it and the submedian interspace before postmedial 

 line suffused with black ; postmedial line black defined by white on 

 outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then formed of 

 small black lunules and with slight brown line beyond it, oblique, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and below vein 3, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line, white excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, then incurved; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia chequered 

 blackish and white at tips. Hind wing whitish, almost entirety 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; a faint discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side ; a terminal series 

 of slight dark lunules ; cilia with a tine pale line at base ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with black-brown, a black discoidal 

 spot, postmedial line bent outwards below costa, crenulate to vein 5, 

 then oblique, and a diffused subterminal band towards tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, 1 $ ? Pennsylvania, 1 3 type. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



