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NOCTUIBJE. 



line; cilia rufous with an ochreous line at base. Hind wing white 

 suffused with brownish ochreous; the underside white suffused with 

 yellow. 



/*S— 



Fig. 10. — Hydrcecia mediahs, 3 ■ 



Hub. U.S A., Washington, Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Custer 

 Co., Cusack .Ranch (Gockerdl), 2 6 • Exp. 48 milliin. 



Sect. III. Antenna of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing bright rufous, the medial area deep rufous cervaffo. 



B. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with red-brown especially 



on medial area obliqua. 



C. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellowish, the claviform 



whitish with a dark cross on it 2 :>ue »ff^ er ^ 



*4335. Hydrcecia cervago. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 27.) 



Gortyna cervago, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1844, iii. p. 594, pi. 15. ff. 1, a-c, & 

 1855, iv. p. i>7b' ; id. Faun. Volg. & Ur. p. 612 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 187. 



J . Head and thorax bright rufous ; antennae with the shaft 

 white ; abdomen paler rufous. Fore wing pale bright rufous, the 

 medial area deep rufous ; antemedial line rufous defined on inner 

 side by whitish, angled inwards on subcostal nervure and vein 1 

 and outwards in submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform pale 

 rufous, the former small, rather oblique elliptical, the latter narrow 

 with rufous line in middle ; postmedial line rufous defined on outer 

 side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then obliquo, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, defined 

 on inner side by rufous suffusion, slightly ex curved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with 

 deep rufous ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia deep rufous. Hind 

 wing white, the costal and terminal areas faintly tinged with rufous ; 

 an oblique rufous postmedial line and faint diffused subterminal 

 shade ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia with a slight rufous line 

 through them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal 

 area suffused and irrorated with deep rufous, a diffused postmedial 

 line bent inwards to costa and faint subterminal shade. 



2 . Larger and darker. 



Hub. Russia, Urals (BarteT), in Coll. Pungeler ; Aemexia ; 

 W, Tuekestax, Turcomania. Exp. 44 millim. 



