46 NOCTUID.E. 



rufous suffusion beyond it on costa with yellow points on it ; sub- 

 terminal line arising from termen below apex, incurvod at discal 

 and submedian folds, excurved at middle ; a terminal red-brown 

 line ; cilia yellow mixed with rufous. Hind wing dark rerl-browu ; 

 cilia yellow and red-brown ; the underside rather paler, thickly 

 irrorated and suffused with red-brown, an indistinct sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. XJ S.A., Kansas, Colorado (Snow), 1 $ type ; New Mexico, 

 Beulah (Cackerell), 2 rf . Evp. 32 millim. 



*4347. Hydrcecia moesiaca. 



Gortyna wi#swm, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 218, Noct. f.50 (1845) ; 

 Stand. Gat. Lep. pal. p. 186. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 rufous with yellow ring at extremity of 2nd joint; tegulas with 

 faint rufous medial band; patagia edged with brown: abdomen 

 with lateral red-brown stripes. Fore wing yellow irroratcd and 

 in parts slightly suffused with rufous, the veins red-brown ; sub- 

 basal line double, rufous, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line rufous, double, the inner line indistinct, oblique, sinuous ; 

 claviform short and broad, defined by rufous ; orbicular defined by 

 rufous and with rufous point in centre, rather irregularly rounded ; 

 reniform large, defined by rufous, its centre also defined by rufous, 

 rather constricted at middle ; medial line rufous, excurved from 

 costa to median nervure, then oblique; postmedial line double, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, the inner line waved, the 

 outer slightly incurved below vein 3 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 yellow, defined on inner side by rufous suffusion, very slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine waved dark terminal 

 line ; cilia yellow at base, brown at tips. Hind wing glossy 

 yellowish white, the veins tinged with red-brown ; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 red-brown, a diffused red-brown mark at middle of costa and 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Bulgaria, in Coll. Piingeler; Turkey; Armenia. Exp. 

 60 millim. 



4348. Hydrcecia leucographa. 



Noctua leucographa, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 470 (1702) ; Brahm, 



Scriba Beitr. Ins. iii. p. 252, pi. 18. f. 1 (1793); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 186. 

 Gortyna borelii, Pierret, Ann. Soo. Ent, Fr. vi. p. 449, pi, 16. f. 5 (1837). 

 Gortyna lunata, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 96, pi. 263. f. 1 & pi. 327. f. 3 



(1839) • Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 466, pi. 41. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 114 & 117-8. 

 Gortyna illunata, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 425 (1852). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the teguhe and upper 

 ed°-e of patagia tinged with rufous; antennas with the shaft whitish 



