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i"ed-browii on medial and terminal areas except at apex; siibbasal 

 line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, oblique; claviform absent; orbicular 

 and renifoim with pale reddish centi'es and slight grey annuli defined 

 by dark brown, the former oblique elliptical, the latter narrow and 

 constiicted at middle; a diffused red-brown medial line, oblique 

 from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line doable, the lines 

 widely se])arated, the outer line indistinct and with dark ])oints on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some minute pale points bej'ond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line pale reddish, indistinct, defined on inner side by 

 dark browii and with brown patch before it on costa ; angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine waved black 

 terminal line : cilia dark brown -with a whitish line at base. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with iuseous, the termen rather paler ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; 

 t]ie underside whitish in-orated with brown, the costal area tinged 

 with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and 

 indistinct diffused subterminal line. 



IJah. Canada [Forman), 1 c? , 1 2 , Nova Scotia {Redman), 1 $ , 

 Ontario, Ottawa ('S'ff?<»c/erA-), U §, London (Saunders), 2 (5,1$; 

 U.S.A., Maine to Pennyslvania and W. to Iowa and Missouri, New 

 York {Do'uhlidai/, Fadard), 1 J , 5 5 , Evans Center {Grate), 2 d" . 

 Exji. 38-40 miilim. 



4321. Apamea nictitans. 



Naduanictitans, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 847 (1766) ; Esp. Sclimett. iv. 



pi. 12fi. ff. 5-G ; Borkh. Eur. Schniett., Noct. p. 463 (179:2) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. p. .^>8, pi. 104. f. 2; Stepli. 111. Brit. Eut., Ilau.st. iii. p. 7; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 174 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 186. 

 Xoriua chrysofjrapha, Schiff. W ien. Verz. p. olo (1776); Hiibn. Eur. 



Sclimett.,' Koct. f. 22 L 

 Nociua mijopa. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. 2, p. 116 (1794). 

 Noctua cinerago, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 445 (1798). 

 ISociua auricula, Don. Nat. Hi.'^t. Brit. Ins. xii. p. 5, pi. 397. f. 3 (1807). 

 Noctiia crijtliroiifiqma, Haw. Lep. Brit, p. 240 (1809). 

 Isociuajucom, F'i-r. Beitr. iii. p. 152, pi. 141. f. 2 (1830). 

 Apamea. Ivccns, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 143, pi. 468. S. 3, 4 (1845) ; Herr,- 



Scbdff. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. ff. 285-8 (1847). 

 Hydrcecia. americava, Spryer, Stett. ent, Zeit. xxsvi. p. 152 (1875). 

 HycJrcecia palvdis, Tiitt, Ent. xxi. pi. 1. ff. 1-6 (1888). 

 Hi/dmcia Insca, Siiiitb, List Lep. N. Am. p. 45 (1891). 

 Hydrrjecia jia/kf^rcns. Stand. Iris, xii. p. 342 (1899). 

 J^'i'draria pacifica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi p. 19 (1899). 

 Hi/drofca, aUantica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. sxvi. p. 18 (1899). 

 Hydrmciu interoceanica; Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi. p. 17 (1899). 

 liydrcecia crtnancnsis, Burrows, Ent. Eec. xx. p. 184 (1908). 



Head and tliorax orange-red; tegulse with the basal half yellower 

 with a brown medial line ; abdomen pale orange-red, the base ratlier 

 greyer and sliglitly tinged with brown, the crests somewhat darker. 

 Fore wing orange-red suffused with rufous, especially on medial area; 

 subbasal line indistinct, double, minutelj' waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; anteraedial line double, waved, oblique ; claviibrra 

 absent : orbicular orange detined bv brown, round ; reniforra 



