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XOCTPID.E. 



reil-browii mcLlial lino : abdomen greyish ocbreous sufFiiscd with 

 l)ro\vn. Fore wing ochroous sutiused and irrorated with rod-brown, 

 the outer half of medial area except towards costa and terminal area 

 dt'cper red-brown, the costal area and veins irrorated with whitish ; 

 subbasul line represented Ijy double red-brown striie from costa and 

 cell ; antemedial line red-brown, slightly incnrved below costa, then 

 excurved ; orbicular and reniform large, greyish, the former rather 

 (|uadrate and defined by brown on inner side, the latter slightly 

 defined by red-brown ; an indistinct diffused curved medial brown 

 line; postmedial line red-brown dcKned on outer side by greyish 

 ocbreous, bent outwards below costa and very oblique l)elow vein t), 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, excurved at vein 7, excurved and slightly waved at middle ; 

 a fine red-brown terminal line ; cilia with slight brown line near 

 base. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown ; a slight 

 discoidal point, indistinct slightly curved postmedial line and fine 

 terminal line; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 tinged and irrorated with red-brown, a small discoidal spot, sinuous 

 l)Ostmedial line and slight subterminal line. 



Hah. Brit.un, Scotland, England {Dowjlas, McLacldan), Leech 

 Coll. ; S. GERMAxr, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austri.a., Styria, Tran- 

 sylvania ; Switzerland ; liujiKUA ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 44- 

 52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 119; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 71, pi. 191. f. 2. 



Grey-white ; warts black ; head and thoracic plate brown. 

 Food-plant : roots and stems of Petasites. 6-7. 



4341. Hydrcecia amurensis. (Plate CXXXVIL fig. 30.) 



Hydrcecia amurensis, Staucl. Roin. Mem. vi. p. 465 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 18(3. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ocbreous ; abdomen 

 yellow dorsully tinged wiih red-brown. Fore wing ocbreous 

 almost wholly suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with 

 dark brown, the postmedial area rather paler except towards costa ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight red-brown striga from costa 

 with some yellowish beyond it ; antemedial line red-brown, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and incurved in cell, then excurved ; 

 claviform faintly defined by red-brown ; orbicular and reniform 

 yellowish dehned by red-brown, the former erect elliptical, the 

 latter large ; medial line dark brown, rather diffused, oblique to 

 below angle of cell and incurved in cell, then inwardly oblique to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below 

 costa, then very oblique and slightly excurved, some slight yellowish 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line yellowish defined on 

 inner side by dark brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle : a 

 waved dnrk brown terminal line; cilia with yellowish line at base. 

 Hind wing pale yellowish suffused in parts with brown, the veins 

 brown ; an oblique slightly sinuous brown postmedial line, a diffused 

 subterminal band and fine brown terminal line ; the underside 



