22 NOCTUIDJE. 



Sect. 11. Auteiinw of iniile bipoctinate with sliorl. branches ending in a 

 bristle ; fore wing witb tlie ternien slightly angled at vein 3, then 

 oblique to torniis. 



A. Fore winpr witii the postmedial and terrniniil areas purplish 



fuscous, the veins of former streaked with white refis. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal areas rufous caJuca. 



4315. Gortyna retis. 



Eusfrofia retis, Grotc, Can. Ent. xi. p. 198 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. yil. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with blackish and pale 

 purplish pink : palpi and Irons blackish ; tarsi black-brown ringed 

 with white; abdomen black-brown mi.xed with greyish and with 

 sublateral series of black points. Fore wing black-brown suffused 

 with violaceous grey, the veins with .slight pale strealcs, veins 4, 3 

 and veins 2 and 1 beyond postmedial line streaked with v/hite ; 



Fig. 4. — Gortijna retis, (^ . \. 



Bubbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold; diff'used 

 oblique black bars across submedian interspaces and above inner 

 margin before the antemcdiul line, which is indistinctly double, 

 waved, somewhat oblique : claviforin faintly defined by black scales ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, with brownish centres defined by 

 black and white annuli defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the latter oblique and angled inwards on median nervure, 

 the area beyond it and the submedian interspace before postmedial 

 line suffused with black ; postmedial line black defined by white on 

 outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then formed of 

 small black lunults and with slight brown line beyond it, oblique, 

 sli-ihtiy incurved at discal fold and below vein 3, some white points 

 l)eyond it on costa ; subterrainal line, white excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia chequered 

 blackish and white at tips. Hind wing whitish, almost entirely 

 suff'nsed with fu>C()us brown ; a faint discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side ; a terminal series 

 of slight dark lunules : cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the 

 underside whitish irroraled with black-brown, a black discoidal 

 spot, postmedial line bent outwards below costa, crenulate to vein 5, 

 then oblique, and a diffused subtermioal band towards tornus. 



Ha'n. U.S.A., MassachusettB, 1 $ , Pennsylvania, 1 S type. 

 Exp. 32 millira. 



