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KocruiD^. 



filleil in with wliilish, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards 

 in diseiil fold. ol)li(iue and sinuous below vein 4, the area beyond it 

 somewhat paler, except towards costa on which are some whitish 

 points; Bubterminal line ochreous defined on inner side b}* reddish 

 brown and with some blackish marks on outer edge, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it 

 bluish grey irrorated witli white except at apex which is ochreous ; 

 a terminal aeries of slight black lunules : cilia brown with an 

 ochreous line at base. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the veins and 

 terminal half sufl'used with fuscous brown ; a fine black terminal 

 line ; cilia ochreous with a dark line through them ; the underside 

 ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal spot and sinuous ])ostinedial line. 



Ab. 1.((tra. Fore wing more unii'orm fuscous brown, the lunule 

 on outer edge of reniform more prominent. 



Ab. 2. Brighter in colour ; mctathoracic crest greyish ; fore 

 wing with the medial area suffused with black, the postniedial area 

 whitish ; median nervure and bases of veins 3, 4 streaked with 

 "white. 



Bab. Canada (Noryy^an), 2 c? , Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 2 c? ; 

 U.S.A., Northern, Middle, and Central States, 'Sew York {Double- 

 day, Orote), 2 cJ , 4 5 , type and type atra. Exp. 40-50 millim. 



4318. Gortyna leucostigina. 



Koctua levcostigma, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Jf oet. f. 375 (1808) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 18(). 

 Ncctua fibrosa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f.38o (1808) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 1, 



p. 132, pi. 109. f. 4; Sfeph. 111. Brit. Evit., Ilaust. iii. p. 7. 

 2*'octua Imiina, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 209 (1809). 

 Cert/gfis leevis. Biitl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 181. 

 ? Hi/draecirt khas^iaita, Moore, P. Z. S. 18S1, p. 312, pi. 37. f. 5; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 234. 



Head and thorax rufous tinged with purplish and mixed with 

 some grey ; tarsi ringed with white ; pectus with ochreous hair ; 



Fig. 5. — Gortyna leucostigma, ^ . 



abdomen pale ochreous dorsally slightly tinged with fuscous, the 

 crests tipped with grey. Fore wing rufous suffused with purplish 

 esj)ecially on the inner ana postniedial areas, the veins with dark 

 streaks irrorated with white; subbasal line double, waved, from 

 costa to submediau fold : antemedial line indistinctly double, slightly 

 waved, oblique from costa tc vein 1 and bent inwards to inner 



