HYDRCECIA. 41 



browner ; subbasal lino slight, brown, from costa to median nervurc ; 

 antemedial line brown, sinuous, excurved ; orbicular and reniform 

 lariie, yellow defined by brown, the former diamond-shaped ; 

 medial line brown, angled inwards in cell, then outwards to lower 

 angle, then incurved, some yellow before and beyond it in cell and 

 before it below the cell ; postmedial line brown, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then obli(}ue ; subterminal line indistinct, yellow 

 defined on each side by brownish and with dark mark before it on 

 costa, excurved at middle ; a, fine terminal brown line. Hind wing 

 pale yellow with traces of a sinuous postmedial shade. 



Bah. E. Turkestan, Hi, Charkhode. Exp. 56 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



4339. Hydrcecia immaiiis. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 29.) 



Hydracia iinmaiiis, Giieii. Noct. i. p. 128 (1852}; Smith, Cut. Noct. 

 JV. Am. p. 175. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous white ; teguhe 

 "with red-brown and white line at tips ; patagia with red-brown 

 and whitish line near base, the patagia and metathoracic crest 

 tipped with brown and white ; abdomen pale ochreous, ventrally 

 tinged with rufous. Pore wing ochreous irrorated with brown, the 

 medial area except towards costa and the terminal area suffused 

 with rufous, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; subbasal line 

 slight, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; a bi-ownish mark in 

 cell and ditt'used bar from submedial fold to inner margin before 

 the antemedial line which is incurved iji cell, then sinuous ; clavi- 

 form faintly defined by red-brown; orbicular and reniform very 

 large, defined by red-brown except above, the former elliptical with 

 irregular outer edge, the latter somewhat constricted at middle ; an 

 indistinct medial brown line excurved to median nervure, then 

 oblique ; postmedial line red-brown defined on outer side by pale 

 ochreous, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and very 

 slightly curved ; subterminal line red-brown, indistinctly double 

 and filled in with ochreous, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a red-brown terminal line ; cilia brown with ochreous line at base. 

 Hind wing yellowish white faintly tinged with red-brown except 

 at base ; a slightly curved brown postmedial line, faint ditt'used 

 sinuous subterminal line and fine terminal line ; the underside pale 

 yellow, the costal and terminal areas slightly tinged with rufous, 

 a sinuous rufous postmedial line curved inwards to costa. 



Hub. U.S.A., New York {/Joublcdai/), 1 J, 2 $ type, Illinois, 

 Virginia, Washington, Colorado, Denver, 1 c? . E.r^). 50-56 millim. 



4340. Hydrcecia petasitis. 



HydroRcia pefasitis, DouW. Zuologist, v. p. 1914 (1847) ; Stand. Cat. Lcp. 



p.il. p. 18(5. 

 Gurtyna vivdellcia, Frr. Keue Beitr. vi. p. 82, ph 531. f. 3 (184'J) ; Ilerr.- 



Scbaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 521-3. 



Head and thorax red-browu mixed with grey ; tegulac with slight 



