396 KOCTTJID^E. 



areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, postmedial line 

 excurved to vein 2, then incurved and fine terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Idhernica. Uedder ; fore wing with the markings less 

 clearl)^ deKned by white. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; GERMAwr, ZelJer, Frey & 

 Leech Colls. ; Scandinavia ; Hussia. Riga, Zeller Coll., Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll., Urals. Exp. 26-32 millira. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 135 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 3, pi. 185. f. 1. 



Pinkish ochreous to purplish brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines 

 faint, pale ; spots black ; head and thoracic plate pale reddish 

 brown. Food-plant : bases of stems of Eriophorum. 6-7. 



*3224. Oligia obtusa. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Helotropha obtusa, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 45 (1902); Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 123. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown ; antennae whitish above, reddish 

 below ; tegulae at tips and thoracic crests somewhat paler ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing fuscous brown, the medial area darker, 

 black below the cell ; subbasal line slight, black defined on inner 

 side by pale scales ; antemedial line double, oblique, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and at vein 1 ; clavitorm short, broad, defined 

 by black ; orbicular small, oblique elliptical, defined by pale scales ; 

 reniform with pale annulus, expanding and undefined below ; 

 median nervure and the veins arising from it streaked with white 

 on medial area ; postmedial line double, beut outwards below costa 

 and oblique below vein 4 to inner margin near antemedial line, 

 some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line slight, 

 formed of whitish scales slightly defined on inner and outer sides by 

 dark shadings, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; the apex 

 irrorated with grey ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 with a fine yellowish line at base and intersected with yellowish. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown ; a slight discoidal lunule and postmedial 

 line ; the underside paler thickly irrorated with fuscous, a large 

 discoidal lunule and sometimes a postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Hampshire, Clarcmout, Ashleys Ferry. 

 Exp. 30-34 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from 

 a drawing from type in Coll. J. B. Smith. 



3225. Oligia includens. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Hydrelia inchidens, Wlk. xii. p. 813 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 312. 

 Hadetia norma, Morr. Can. Ent. vii. p. 216 (1875). 

 Lithacodia peniia, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 71. 

 Eusirotia marics] Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 67 (1877). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous 

 white slightly tinged with rufous and with the dorsal crests rufous. 



