HYDRQ-XIA. 



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yellowish white irrorated with hrown, the postmedial line excurvcd 

 below costa, then sinuous, the subterminal band indistinct. 



Bab. E. Siberia, Aniurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate (Andrews, 

 Leech), 1 S , 1 $ , Nemoro (Leech), 2 $ i Yokohama [Pryer, Lewis), 

 "Z (5 . Exp. 40-54 millim. 



4342. Hydrcecia micacea. 



Noctita micacea, Esp. Schmet.t. pi. 1 J5. f. 6 (1789) ; Sepp, Ins. iv. pis. 38, 

 39 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 243, pi. 115. f. 6 ; Fit. Neue Beitr. pi. 117 ; 

 Curt, Brit. Ent., Lep. pi. 252 ; Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent„ Haust. iii. p. 69 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 186. 



Koctua cypriaca, Hiibu. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 224 (1802). 



Head and thorax rufous slightly mixed with ochreous ; antenna? 

 with the shaft whitish at base; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged 

 with brown, ventrally with rufous. Fore wing ochreous more or 

 less suffused with bright rufous or purplish rufous, deeper before 

 the postmedial line; subbasal line rufous, from eosta to vein 1; 

 antemedial line red-brown, slightly angled outwards below co^ta, 

 oblique to submedian fold, then erect ; claviform faintly defined by 

 rufous; orbicular and reniform large, yellowish defined by rufous, 

 the former round, open above ; medial line indistinct, rufous, 

 oblique from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin : postmedial line red-brown, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then very oblique ; postmedial area rather 



Fig. 12. — Hydrcecia micacea, J. \. 



yellower with the veins slightly streaked with brown ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

 excnrved at middle ; a red-brown teiminal line ; cilia with 

 yellowish line at base. Hind wing pale yellow suffused in parts 

 with brown, the veins brown ; an oblique brown postmedial line 

 and brown terminal line except towards tornus ; the underside 

 yellowish white, the costal and terminal aieas irrorated 'with red- 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot and rather diffused sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, New Brunswick, St. Johns', Nova Scotia, Cape 

 Breton I.. 1 <$ ; Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Denmark, 

 Frey Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; 

 Hungary ; Switzerland ; N. Italy ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Eussia, 

 Esthonia, Zeller & Frey Colls., Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, 

 Ala Tau ; "W. Siberia, Altai, 1 S , Zeller Coll. ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 E. Siberia, Amur, Ussuri. Exp. 40-50 millim. 



