48 NocniD.f:, 



line ropresented bv yellowish murks below costa and cell and w ith 

 a white point beyond it in cell; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 with some dnrkcr sufi'usion before it, inwardly oblique below the 

 cell : claviforni represented by a yellowish patcli ; orbicular and 

 renifoini pale yellow tinged with rufous and faintly defined by 

 brown, the former round, the latter with its centre faintly defined 

 bv rufous and its annulus broken up by slight streaks on the veins ; 

 an indistinct curved red-brown medial line; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 



Fig. 13. — Hydroecia xanthenes, (S . \, 



oblique below vein 4 ; siibterminal line represented by a verv 

 indistinct yellowish minutely waved band ; a slight waved brown 

 terminal line ; cilia red-brown with a faint dark line near base. 

 Hind wing yellowish tinged with red-brown ; the underside with 

 faint curved postmedial line. 



Uah. S. France ; Spain, Andalusia; Sicily, Frey and Leech Colls. 

 Exp. 50-5(J millira. 



Larva. Ilirm. Eaup. p. 103. 



Ked-brown ; each segment with a dark mark ; thoracic plate 

 with two brown shields ; bead brown. Food-plants : Cynara 

 scolymus and Cardvncuhis. 10. 



4350. Hydroecia fortis. 



Ochria fortis. Bull. A. M. N. H. (.5) i. p. 83 (1878); id. 111. Het. B. M. ii. 

 p. 23, pi. 28. f. 9 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187. 



Head and thorax yellow mixed with red-brown ; palpi and frons 

 red-brown; tegulse and patagia edged with red-brown; pectus and 

 legs suffused with red-brown ; abdomen yellow tinged with red- 

 brown. Fore wing yellow irrorated with red, the antemedial, 

 postmedial, and terminal areas red-brown, the veins streaked with 

 I'ed-brown ; subbasal line indistinct, red defined by yellow on outer 

 side, waved, from costa to vein 1, a yellow point beyond it iu cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, brown, excurved to median nervure, 

 angled inwards in sulimedian fold, then very obli(]ue to inner 

 margin ; claviform large, defined by brown, extending to cell ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former round, the 



