42 NOCTUIDJS. 



red-brown medial line ; abdomen greyish ochreons suffused with, 

 brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused and irroiated with red-brown, 

 the outer half of medial area except towards costa and terminal area 

 deeper red-brown, the costal area and veins irroiated with whitish ; 

 subbasal line represented by double red-brown striae from costa and 

 cell ; anfcemedial line red-brown, slightly incurved below costa, then 

 excurved ; orbicular and reniform large, greyish, the former rather 

 quadrate and defined by brown on inner side, the latter slightly 

 defined by red-brown ; an indistinct diffused curved medial brown 

 line ; postmedial line red-brown defined on outer side by greyish 

 ochreous, bent outwards below costa and very oblique below vein 6, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, excurved at vein 7, excurved and slightly waved at middle ; 

 a fine red-brown terminal line ; cilia with slight brown line near 

 base. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown ; a slight 

 discoidal point, indistinct slightly curved postmedial line and fine 

 terminal line ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 tinged and irrorated with red-brown, a small discoidal spot, sinuous 

 postmedial line and slight subterminal line. 



Hob. Britain, Scotland, England (Douglas, McLacldan), Leech 

 Coll. ; S. Germans', Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Styria, Tran- 

 sylvania ; Switzerland ; Rumeua ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 44- 

 52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 119; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 71, pi. 191. f. 2. 



Grey-white ; warts black ; head and thoracic plate brown. 

 Food-plant : roots and stems of Petasites. 6-7. 



4341. Hydrcecia amurensis. (Plate CXXXVIL fig. 30.) 



Hi/drmcia amurensis, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 465 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 186. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous ; abdomen 

 yellow dorsally tinged with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous 

 almost wholly suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with 

 dark brown, the postmedial area rather paler except towards costa ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight red-brown striga from costa 

 with some yellowish beyond it ; antemedial line red-brown, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and incurved in jCell, then excurved; 

 claviform faintly defined by red-brown; orbicular and reniform 

 yellowish defined by red-brown, the former erect elliptical, the 

 latter large ; medial line dark brown, rather diffused, oblique to 

 below angle of cell and incurved in cell, then inwardly oblique to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below 

 costa, then very oblique and slightly excurved, some slight yellowish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellowish defined on 

 inner side by dark brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle : a 

 waved dark brown terminal line; cilia with yellowish line at base. 

 Hind wing pale yellowish suffused in parts with brown, the veins 

 brown ; an oblique slightly sinuous brown postmedial line, a diffused 

 subterminal band and fine brown terminal line ; the underside 



