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433G. Hydroecia obliqua. 



Gortyva ohliqua, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 53 (1876); Siiiitb, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 175. 



Hefid and thorax yellowish white mixed with pale red-brown ; 

 nhdomen ochreous white tinged and irrorated with brown, the 

 ventral surface paler. Pore wing ochreous white irrorated with 

 red-brown, the medial area suffused with red-browm except towards 

 costa ; anteniedial line brown, stronglj- curved ; orbicular and 

 renit'orm large, defined by brown except above, the former large ; 

 jiostmedial line brown defined by w^hite on outer side, strongly bent 

 outwards and obsolescent below costa and very oblique below vein 6 ; 

 subtern>inal line whitish defined on inner side by reddish-brown 

 suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine red-brown 



m 



¥\g. 11. — Hi/droecia obliqua, (^ . \. 



terminal line. Hind wing white irrorated and sufi'used in parts 

 with reddish brown, the veins reddish brown : a sinuous brown 

 Jiostmedial line and fine terminal line ; the underside white tinged 

 with red-brown, an indistinct slightly curved brown postmedial line, 

 Hab. U.S.A., Dakota, Arkansas, Colorado, California, Sierra 

 Nevada, 1^,1$. J^^rp. 6 46, $ SO millim. 



*4337. Hydroecia puengeleri. (Plate CXXXVIT. fig. 28.) 



Hydra'cia pucngeleri, Tiirati, ined. 



cT . Head and thorax yellow slightly tinged with rufous, the 

 tegulfe and patagia edged with pale grey-l)rowu, the vertex of 

 thorax mixed with grey-brown ; pectus whitish mixed Avith grey- 

 brown ; legs reddish yellow ; abdomen orange-yellow, the basal 

 ci'est and anal tut't above mixed with fuscous, the ventral surface 

 white irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing narrow, yellowish white 

 irrorated with red-brown, the cell and apical half of terminal area 

 suffused with grey-brown, tlie veins streaked with brown ; siilibasal 

 line double, rufous filled in with yellow, angled inwards m cell and 

 ending at vein 1, a whitish point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line 

 double, rufous filled in with yellow, angled outwards below costa 

 and above inner margin ; claviform whitish defined ly rufous and 

 witli a dark cross on it, short and broad ; orbicular yellowish white 

 defined by rufous, its centre defined by rufous, elongate ellipfieal, 



