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above; abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with brown. Fore 

 wing pale yellow thickly irrorated and more or less suffused with 

 red-brown, the cell, costal area from subbasal to medial line, and 

 terminal area suffused with red-brown, the postmedial area greyish, 

 tinged with red-brown towards costa, the veins streaked with red- 

 brown : a white point at base; subbasal line double, rufous filled 

 in with yellow, waved, from costa to vein 1, a white point beyond 

 it in cell ; antemedial line red-brow r n defined by yellow on outer 

 side at costa, angled outwards below costa, then incurved, traversing 

 the claviform which is white defined by red-brown and bisected by 

 a red-brown streak in submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform 

 white defined by red-brown, the former round with red- brown spot 

 in middle, the latter broken up by brown streaks on the veins and 

 with curved whitish line in middle defined by brown : medial line 

 red-brow r n, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 oblique; postmedial line double, red-brown, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique 

 and slightly incurved between veins 3 and 2 ; suhtermina] line 

 slight, red-brown defined by yellowish white on outer side towards 

 costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then dentate and excurved at 

 middle ; a waved red-brown terminal line ; cilia greyish brown 

 with a slight dark line through them. Hind wing yellowish white 

 suffused in parts with reddish brown, the veins brown, a faint 

 sinuous postmedial line and traces of diffused subterminal band ; 

 a waved brown terminal line and the cilia tinged with brown from 

 apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area tinged and 

 irrorated with rufous, a curved red-brown postmedial line. 



Bab. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Leech Coll. ; Austria, 

 Galicia ; Hungary, Leech Coll.; Corsica. Exp. 56-66 millim. 



Larva. Eirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 187 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 103. 



Pale pinkish with dark dorsal line. Food-plant: stems of 

 Peucedaiwm officinale. 10-7. 



Sect. V. Antenna; of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique below vein 4. 



a. Fore wing with the markings indistinct, the medial 



area not strongly contrasting xanthenes. 



b. Fore wing wilh the markings distinct, the medial area 



yellow and strongly contrasting foriis. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line evenly excurved 



from below costa to inner margin basalipuvetafa. 



4349. Hydrcecia xanthenes. 



Gorti/no .va?itlienes, Germ. Faun. Ins. Eur. xxii. pi. 22 (1844): Herr.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schmett., ]S T oct. f. 119; Mill. Icones. ii.p. 172. pi. 69, ff. 10, 

 11 ; Embr. Cat. Lep. And. pi. 12. 1'. 3 ; Staud. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 186. 



Head and thorax yellowish white suffused with rufous ; abdomen 

 silky yellowdsh white slightly tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale 

 silky yellow suffused with rufous, a white point at base ; subbasal 



