24 NOCXTJID.35. 



filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards 

 in discal fold, oblique and sinuous below vein 4, the area beyond it 

 somewhat paler, except towards costa on which are some whitish 

 points ; subterminal line ochreous denned on inner side by reddish 

 brown and with some blackish marks on outer edge, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it 

 bluish grey irrorated with white except at apex which is ochreous ; 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia brown with an 

 ochreous line at base. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the veins and 

 terminal half suffused with fuscous brown ; a fine black terminal 

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

 ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. atra. Fore wing more uniform fuscous brown, the lunule 

 on outer edge of reniform more prominent. 



Ab. 2. Brighter in colour ; metathoracic crest greyish ; fore 

 wing with the medial area suffused with black, the postmedial area 

 whitish ; median nervure and bases of veins 3, 4 streaked with 

 white. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 2 S •> Manitoba, Aweme {Griddle), 2 <$ ; 

 U.S.A., Northern, Middle, and Central States, New York {Double- 

 day, Qrote), 2 d , 4 § , type and type atra. Exp. 40-50 millim. 



4318. Gortyna leucostigma. 



Noctua leucostigma, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 375 (1808); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 18fi. 

 Noctua fibrosa, Hubn. Eur. Schmett.., Noct. f.385 (1808) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 1, 



p. 132, pi. 109. f. 4; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent,, Haust. iii. p. 7. 

 Noctua lunina, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 209 (1809). 

 Cerastis /avis, Butl. Trans. Em. Soc. 1881, p. 181. 

 ? Hydrcecia khasiana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 342, pi. 37. f. 5; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 234. 



Head and thorax rufous tinged with purplish and mixed with 

 some grey ; tarsi ringed with white : pectus with ochreous hair ; 



Fig. 5. — Gortyna, leucostigma, cS • \- 



abdomen pale ochreous dorsally slightly tinged with fuscous, the 

 crests tipped with grey. Fore wing rufous suffused with purplish 

 especially on the inner ana postmedial areas, the veins with dark 

 Btreaks irrorated with white ; subbasal line double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, slightly 

 waved, oblique from costa tt vein 1 and bent inwards to inner 



