48 N0CTtriD2E. 



line represented by yellowish marks below costa and cell and with 

 a white point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 with some darker suffusion before it, inwardly oblique below the 

 cell : claviform represented by a yellowish patch ; orbicular and 

 reniform pale yellow tinged with rufous and faintly defined by 

 brown, the former round, the latter with its centre faintly defined 

 by rufous and its annulus broken up by slight streaks on the veins ; 

 an indistinct curved red-brown medial line; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 



Fig. 13. — Hydrcecia xanthines, $ . \, 



oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by a very 

 indistinct yellowish minutely wa^ed band ; a slight waved brown 

 terminal line ; cilia red-brown with a faint dark line near base. 

 Hind wing yellowish tinged with red-brown ; the underside with 

 faint curved postmedial line. 



Hah. S. France ; Spain, Andalusia; Sicily, Frey and Leech Colls. 

 Exp. 50-56 millim. 



Larva. Hffm. Ran p. p. 103. 



Red-brown ; each segment with a dark mark ; thoracic plate 

 with two brown shields ; head brown. Food-plants : Cynara 

 scolymus and Cardrinculus. 10. 



4350. Hydrcecia fortis. 



Ochria fortis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 83 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. ii. 

 p. 23] pi. 28. f. 9 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187. 



Head and thorax yellow mixed with red-brown; palpi and irons 

 red-brown ; teguloe and patagia edged with red-brown ; pectus and 

 legs suffused with red-brown ; abdomen yellow tinged with red- 

 brown. Fore wing yellow irrorated with red, the antemedial, 

 postmedial, and terminal areas red-brown, the veins streaked with 

 red-brown ; subbasal line indistinct, red defined by yellow on outer 

 side, waved, from costa to vein 1, a yellow point beyond it in cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, brown, excurved to median nervure, 

 angled inwards in submedian fold, then very oblique to inner 

 margin ; claviform large, defined by brown, extending to cell ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former round, the 



