46 NorruiD.K. 



lufons sulYiHioii beyoiiJ it on costa with yellow points on it ; suh- 

 leriuiiKil line arisinj^ from ternien below apox, inciirvoi at discal 

 ami suhmedian folds, excurved at raidfUe ; a terminal red-brown 

 line ; cilia yellow mixed with rufous. Hind wing dark rerl-brown ; 

 cilia yellow and red-brown ; tiie under^jide rather paler, thickly 

 irrorated and suffused with red-brown, an indistinct sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



llah. U S.A., Kansas, Colorado {Stmw), 1 5 type ; Xew Mexico, 

 Beulali (CjckereU), 2 cJ . Eq^. 32 millim. 



*4347. Hydroecia mcesiaca. 



Gortyna >«(PSJ<7m,Herr.-Scha6P. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 218, Noct. f.50 (1845) ; 

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



9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 rufous with yellow ring at extremity of 2nd joint; tegulje with 

 faint rufous medial band; patagia edged with brown: abdomen 

 with lateral red-brown stripes. Pore wing yellow irrorated and 

 in parts slightly suffused with rufous, the veins red-brown ; sub- 

 basal line double, rufous, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 lino rufous, double, the inner line indistinct, oblique, sinuous; 

 claviform short and broad, defined by rufous ; orbicular defined by 

 rufous and with rufous point in centre, rather irregularly rounded ; 

 reniform large, defined by rufous, its centre also defined by rufous, 

 rather constricted at middle ; medial line rufous, excurved from 

 costa to median nervure, then oblique; postraedial line double, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblitpie, the inner line waved, the 

 outer slightly incurve:! below vein 3 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 yellow, defined on inner side by rufous suffusion, very slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a fine waved dark terminal 

 line ; cilia yellow at base, brown at tips. Hind wing glossy 

 yellowish white, the veins tinged with red-brown; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line ; the underside with ttie costal area irrorated with 

 red-brown, a difl'used red-brown mark at middle of costa and 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. BoLHAEiA, in Coll. Piingeler; Tcjeket ; Aejiexia. Exj^. 

 60 millim. 



4348. Hydroecia leucographa. 



NocUm leucographa, Borkli. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 470 (1792) ; Brahm, 



Scriba Beitr. Ins. iii. p. 252, pi. 18. f. 1 (1793); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal 



p. 180. 

 Gorh/iia horelii, Tierret, Ann. Sec. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 449, pi ](i. f. 5 (1837). 

 Gort'i/na lunata, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. p. OH, pi. 203. f. 1 & |il. 327. f. 3 



(1839) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Siippl. iii. p. 4G!i, pi. 41. f. 1; Herr.-Sc;iafF. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. fT. 114 & 117-8. 

 Gortyna Ulunata, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 425 (1852). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the tegul;B and upper 

 edge of patagia tinged with rufous; antenntc with the shaft whitish 



