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4316. Gortyna caduca. (Plate CXXXVII. tig. 18.) 



Eustrotia caduca, Grote, Can. Ent. via. p. 207 (1376) : Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 311. 



2 . Head and thorax rufous glosscn with pinkish white, the 

 metathorax blackish with a whitish patch ; tarsi fuscous ringed 

 with white ; abdomen rufous suffused with dark brown. Pore 

 ■wing pale rufous suffused with purplish grey to postmedial line, 

 towards which it is darker, the basal area irrorated with black ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, waved, somewhat oblique ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, rufous with slight pale annuli, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter oblique ; postmedial line strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique, 

 minutely waved, excurved between veins 5 and 3 ; the postmedial 

 costal area purplish brown with some pale points on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, slightly excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia rufous 

 at- base with black tips intersected with rufous. Hind wing 

 reddish ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; a faint dark discoidal 

 point and postmedial and subterminal lines ; a fine waved black 

 terminal line ; cilia ochreous with a dark line through them ; the 

 underside ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous, 

 a black discoidal spot and indistinct minutely waved postmedial 

 line excurved below costa. 



J fab. Canada ; U.S.A., New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Jackson 

 Co. (Kellicott), 1 5 type. Exp. 30 mhlim. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Fore, wing with the subterminal line slightly dentate at 



veins 4, 3 rcniformis. 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved at middle ... leucostigma. 



4317. Gortyna reniformis. (Plate CXXXVII. tig. 19.) 



Lupcrina reniformis, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 14 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 173. 

 Heloiropha atra, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 200. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown with a few whitish scales; 

 tegulse with slight black medial line ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous greyish suffused and irrorated with brown. 

 Pore wing brown with a purplish gloss and slightly irrorated with 

 black and white, a slight black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa and cell ; a 

 blackish mark above inner margin before the antemedial line, 

 which is double, slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 waved ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform with slight whitish annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, open above, the latter produced at lower extremity 

 and with whitish lunule on outer edge ; an indistinct medial line 

 oblique from costa to vein 2 ; postmedial line indistinctly double 



