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433G. Hydrcecia obliqua. 



Gorlyna obligua, Harv. Can. Ent. -viii. p. 53 (1876); Smitb, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 175. 



Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with pale red-hrown ; 

 abdomen ochreous white tinged and irrorated with brown, the 

 ventral surface paler. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with 

 red-brown, the medial area suffused with red-brown except towards 

 costa ; antemedial line brown, strongly curved ; orbicular and 

 renit'orm large, defined by brown except above, the former large ; 

 postmedial line brown defined by white on outer side, strongly bent 

 outwards and obsolescent below costa and very oblique below vein 6 ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by reddish-brown 

 suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine red-brown 



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Hydrcecia obligua, <J . 



terminal line. Hind wing white irrorated and suffused in parts 

 with reddish brown, the veins reddish brown : a sinuous brown 

 postmedial line and fine terminal line ; the underside white tinged 

 with red-brown, an indistinct slightly curved brown postmedial line. 

 Bab. U.S.A., Dakota, Arkansas, Colorado, California, Sierra 

 Nevada, 1 J , 1 2 . Earp. 6 46, $ 5b' millim. 



*4337. Hydrcecia puengeleri. 



Hydrcecia pueiigeleri, Turati, ined. 



(Plate CX XXVII. fig. 28.) 



c? . Head and thorax yellow slightly tinged with rufous, the 

 teguke and patagia edged with pale grey-brown, the vertex of 

 thorax mixed with grey- brown ; pectus whitish mixed with grey- 

 brown ; legs reddish yellow ; abdomen orange-yellow; the basal 

 crest and anal tuft above mixed with fuscous, the ventral surface 

 white irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing narrow, yellowish white 

 irrorated with red-brown, the cell and apical half of terminal area 

 suffused with grey-brown, the veins streaked with brown ; subbasal 

 line double, rufous filled in with yellow, angled inwards in cell and 

 ending at vein 1, a whitish point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line 

 double, rufous filled in with yellow, angled outwards below costa 

 and above inner margin; claviform whitish defined by rufous and 

 with a dark cross on it, short and broad ; orbicular yellowish white 

 defined by rufous, its centre defined by rufous, elongate elliptical, 



