u 



NOCTCIDJ=:. 



iMrva. ^r.-yr. Bril. Lcp. p. 119 ; Barretf, Lep. Brit. v. p. fiS. pi. 101. f. 2. 



Dull browiiisli oclireous tinged witli j>urple; subspiraL-iilar line 

 jial'-r ; Avarts blacki.sli : head ochreous brown ; thoracic plate edged 

 with blacl<i.-h in front. Food-plants: stems of /uj nisei um, Valeriana , 

 Juimi.f. I'tc, 5-7; ill Canada in the stems ot corn. 



ASr.i. Hydrcecia perobliqua, n. sp. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 31.) 



(J . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow ; antenna} 

 ■whitish at base; tegulie with rufous line near tips; pectus with 

 vsome white ; abdomen yellowish tinged with rutous, the basal crest 

 dark at tip. I'ore wing yellow sutliised with bright rufous, slightly 

 deeper before the postmedial line, tlie i)ostmedial area somewhat 

 paler; subbasal line represented by slight rufous strite from costa 

 and cell; auteinedial line rutous, angled ouLward.s below costa, 

 oblique to submediau foil, then inwardly obliijue and angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform defined by tine brown 

 lines, the former round, the latter broad; medial line indistinct, 

 angled outwards on subcostal and median nervuies, then oblique; 

 postmedial line brown defined by yellow on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, e.\curved to vein 6, then very oblitjue ; sub- 

 terminal line yellow defined on inner side by an oblique brown bar 

 from costa, then slightly by brown, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a brown terminal line ; cilia red-brown with a rufous line 

 at base. Hind wing yellow-ish white ; a slight brownish terminal 

 line. 



Il/ib. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 cf type. E.iy. 32-34 

 millira. Cotyjjes in Coll. liird. 



4344. Hydroeeia strameutosa. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



Jli/draecia stramentosa, Guen. Noet. i. p. 129, pi. 6. f. 2 (1852) ; Smith, 

 Cat. 2ioct. N. Ain. p. 175. 



5 . Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi tinged with rufous ; 

 frons with slight lateral rufous bars ; teguUe edged with rufous ; 

 patagia edged with rufous above ; fore tibiu3 and tarsi tiuged witli 

 rufous ; abdomen pale yellow, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. 

 Pore wing pale yellow slightly suffused in parts with olive-green, 

 especially before postmedial line, the costal area tiuged with purplish 

 I)iiik, the postmedial area rather paler ; subbasal line indistiuct, 

 rufous, from costa to submedian fold ; dittused rufous bars from 

 costa to median nervure and submedian fold to inner niar<:in before 

 the antemedial line, which is rutous, slightly e.Ycurved below costa, 

 incurved in cell, then excurved ; claviform faintly defined by rufous ; 

 orbicular and reuiform large, tainily defined by rufous, the former 

 rather elliplical, open above and below, the latter somewhat con- 

 stricted at middle ; postmedial line rufous, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa and very oblique below vein 5, touching lower 

 extremity of reniform ; subterminal line slight, rufous, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, inwards in discal fold and excurved at middle; 



