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NOCTUID^. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipcctinate to near apex. 



A. Fore wing not smfFused with brown xaiithina. 



B. Fore wing suffused with brown pexa. 



1487. Hydrceciodes xanthina, n. sp. 

 Xanthia alala, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Het. ii. p. 485 (part.). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow mixed with red ; tegulsB 

 with traces of medial line ; patagia with dark line near tips. Fore 

 wing yellow thickly irrorated with rufous ; two slightly curved 

 rufous subbasal lines from costa to submedian fold and another line 

 from before antcmedial lino excurved below costa, then oblique to 

 vein 1 ; the antemedial line waved, angled inwards in cell and on 

 vein 1 ; claviform short, broad, and defined by brown at extremity; 

 orbicular and roniform large, defined by rufous, the former round ; 

 medial line rufous, obliquely incurved from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, then oblique and with some black irroration at its extremity 

 on inner margin ; postmedial line sinuous, bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly angled at veins 6 and 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line excurved below costa 



Fig. 49. — Hydrceciodes xanthina, S. \. 



and at middle, incurved at veins 5 and 2, some slight dark suffusion 

 beyond it ; the veins towards termen with dark streaks ; a fine 

 terminal dark line. Hind wing semihyaline yellow tinged with 

 pink ; the veins and terminal line brown ; cilia yellow ; the under- 

 side pale, the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Patycuaro (Godman), 1 (S type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Ew2). 34 millira. 



*1488. Hydrceciodes pexa. (Plate LXXXV, fig. 4.) 



Hydrada pexa, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 235 (1903). 



fS . Head and thorax yellowish brown mixed with reddish 

 brown aild the hairs tipped with grey ; palpi dark brown at 

 sides ; abdomen ochreous whitish, dorsally suffused with brown, 

 the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing orange-yellow, mostly irro- 

 rated and suffused with red-brown, leaving the antemedial area 

 below cell and postmedial area except towards costa yellower ; 

 a curved slightly waved antemedial line ; claviform short, yellow 

 irrorated with rufous and defined by brown ; orbicular and reni- 



