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NOCIUID-E. 



lino : cilia rufous with an oelireous lino at base. Hind wing white 

 Biitfused with brownish othroous ; the underside white sufiused with 

 yellow. 



Fig. lU. — Hydroecia medially, cf- 1- 



Huh. U.S A., Washington, Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Custer 

 Co., Cusack lianch {CockereU), 2 J . Exj.k 48 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing bright rufous, the medial area d^ep rufous cen'ogo. 



li. Fore wing oelireous white tinged with red-brown especially 



ou medial area obliqua. 



C. Fore wing with tlie ground-colour yellowish, the claviforin 



whitish with a dark cro^s ou it jmeiic/eleri. 



*4335. Hydroecia cervago. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 27.) 



Goriyna cervago, Ev. Bui!. Mosc. 1844, iii. p. 594, pi. 15. flP. 1, a~c, & 

 1S55, iv. p. 376; iJ. Fauu. Volg. & \Jr. p. G12 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 187. 



J . Head and thorax bright rufous ; antennae with the shaft 

 white ; abdomen paler rufous. Fore wing pale bright rufous, the 

 medial area deep rufous ; autcmedial line rufous defined on inner 

 side b}' whitish, angled inwards on subcostal nervure and vein 1 

 and outwards in submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform pale 

 rufous, the former small, rather oblique elliptical, the latter narrow 

 with rufous hue in middle; postmedial line rufous defined on oiiter 

 side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, defined 

 on inner side by rufous suffusion, slightly excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with 

 deep rufous ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia deep rufous. Hind 

 wing white, the costal and terminal areas faintly tinged witli rufous ; 

 an oblique rufous postmedial line and faint diffused subterminal 

 shade ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia with a slight rufous line 

 through them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal 

 iirea suifused and irrorated with deep rufous, a diffused postmedial 

 line bent inwards to costa and faint subterminal shade. 



2 . Larger and darker. 



Hah. ItussiA, Urals {Bartel), in Coll. Piingeler ; AeiMENia ; 

 W. TtKKE^TAX, Turcomania. E.rj>. 44 millim. 



