HYDECECIA . 



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yellowish white irroratcd with brown, the postmedial line excurved 

 below costa, then sinuous, the subterminal band indistinct. 



Hah. E. SiBEKiA, Anmrland, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate (y^w^'^reif^s, 

 Leech), 1 J , 1 $ , Nemoro {Leech), 2 2 ^ Yokohama {Pryer, Lewis), 

 "Z S . Lxji. 40-54 millim. 



4342. Hydroecia micacea. 



Kocina micacea, Esp. Schmett. pi. 146. f. 6 (1789) ; Sepp, Ins. iv. pis. 38, 

 39 ; Diip. Lep. Fi-. vii. p. 243, pi. 115. f. 6 ; Fit. Neue Beitr. pi. 117 ; 

 Curt. Brit. Ent., Lep. pi. 252 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist, iii. p. 69 ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 186. 



Koctua cypriaca, Htibii. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 224 (1802). 



Head and thorax rufous slightlj- mixed with ochreous ; antennte 

 with the shaft wliitish at base ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged 

 with brown, ventrally with rufous. Fore wing ochreous more or 

 less suffused with bright rufous or purjjlish rufous, deeper before 

 the postmedial line ; subbasal line rufous, from eosta to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line red-brown, slightly angled outwards below costa, 

 oblique to submediau fold, then erect ; claviform faintly defined by 

 rufous; orbicular and reniform large, yellowish defined by rufous, 

 tl;e former rcnnd, open above ; medial line indistinct, rufous, 

 olilique from costa to reniform, inwardly oblique from, lower angle 

 of cell to inner maigin : postmedial line red-brown, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then very oblique ; postmedial area rather 



Fig. 12. — Hijclroecia micacea, (^ . \. 



yellower with the veins slightly streaked with brown ; subteiminal 

 line indistinct, rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

 excurved at middle ; a red-lnoAvn teiminal line ; cilia Avith 

 yellowish line at base. Hind wing pale yellow suffused in parts 

 with brown, the veins brown ; an oblique brown postmedial line 

 and brown terminal line except towards tornus ; the underside 

 yellowish white, the costal and terminal aieas irroratcd w'lXh red- 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot and rather diffused sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, New Brunswick, St. Johns', Nova Scotia, Cape 

 Breton, I., 1 c? ; Beitain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Henmaek, 

 Frey Coll. ; Geemant, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Atistkia ; 

 HcNGAKY ; SwiTZEEi.AND ; N. Itaey ; Halmatia, Leech Coll. ; llussiA, 

 Esthonia, Zeller & Frey Colls., Livonia, Zeller Coll. : AV. Tuhkestan, 

 Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 6 , Zeller Coll. ; E. Tuhki.sxan, Hi ; 

 E. Siberia, Amur, Ussuri. Exjri. 4U-50 millim. 



