44 



NOCTUin.T:. 



larva. Meyr. Brit, Lep. p. 119 : Barrett, Lep. Brit v. p. 68, pi. 191. f. '1. 



Dull brownish ochreous tinged with purple: subspiracular line 

 pali r : warts blackish : head ochreous brown ; thoracic plate edged 

 with blackish in front. Food-plants: stems of Equisetum ) Valeriana , 



Jurmcv. ete. 5—7; in Canada in the steins of corn. 



434S. Hydracia perobliqua, n. sp. (Plate CXXXVII, Bg. 31.) 



J. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow; antennas 

 whitish at base; tegula? with rufous line near tips; pectus with 

 some white; abdomen yellowish tinged with rutous. the basal crest 

 dark at tip. Fore wing yellow suffused with bright rufous, slightly 

 rbefore the postmedial line, the postmedial area somewhat 

 paler; subbasal line represented by slight rufous striae from costa 

 and cell; auteniedial line rutous. angled outwards below costa. 

 oblique to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique and angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform defined by* line blown 

 -.the former round, the latter broad: medial line indistinct, 

 angled out ware!.- on subcostal and median nervines, then oblique; 

 postmedial line brown defined by yellow on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein o'. then very oblique; sub- 

 terminal line yellow defined on inner side by an oblique brown bar 

 from costa. then slightly by brown, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a brown terminal line ; cilia red-brown with a rufous line 

 at base. Hind wing yellowish white : a slight brownish terminal 

 line. 



Hob. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg. 1 tf type. E.r£. 32-434 

 millim. Ootypes in Coll. Bird. 



4344. Hydrcecia strameutosa. (Plate t XXXV111. tig. 1.) 



-.'..- K .!. i. p. 129, pi. 6. f, 12 (1852) ; Smith, 



V\ :. V Am. p. 17o. 



$ . Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi tinged with rufous ; 

 fions with slight lateral rufous bars: tegulffi edged with rufous; 

 patagia edged with rufous above ; fore tibiae and tarsi tinged with 

 rufous; abdomen pale yellow, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. 

 Tore wing pale yellow slightly suffused in parts with olive-green, 



ially before postmedial line, the costal area tinged with purplish 

 pink, the postmedial area rather paler; subbasal line indistinct, 

 rufous, from costa to submedian fold ; diffused rufous bars from 

 costa to median nervure and submedian fold to inner margin before 

 the auteniedial line, which is rutous, slightly excurved below costa, 

 incurved in cell, theu excurved : clavilorm faintly defined by rufous ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, faintly defined by rufous, the former 

 rather elliptical, open above and below, the latter somewhat con- 

 stiicted at middle : postmedial liue rutous, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa and very oblique below vein 5, touching lower 

 extremity of reniform : subterminal line slight, rufous, angled 



aids at vein 7. inwards in discal fold and excurved at middle; 



