160 CATALOGUE OF 



Group 2. 



2. Hydr&cia cuprea. 



Fusca ; thorax postice canus ; tibia anticce setis rufis ; alee anticce 

 cupreo-fuscce, fascia latissima strigaque transversa exteriore 

 obscurioribus, ocellis duobus canis ; postica pallide fusca, 

 marginibus latis obscurioribus. 



Noctua cuprea, Wien. Verz. Y. 3. Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. 62. 

 Apamea cuprea, Treit. Schmett. Eur. ii. 125. God. Hist. Nat. Lep. 



Fr. ii. 197, pi. 63. Frey. Neu. Beit. Schmett. pi. 75, f. 4. 

 Gortyna cuprea, Boisd. Ind. 144, 1165. 

 Hydraecia cuprea, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 237 ; Noct. i. 1, 



127, 198. Boisd. Ind. 144, 1165. 

 Noctua hcematitidea, Esp. Schmett. pi. 182, f. 4. 

 Lycophotia cuprea, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 215, 2145. 



a— d. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



Group 3. 



3. HvDRiECIA V1NDELICIA. 



Fusca; abdomen cinerascens ; alee anticce linea interiore trans- 

 versa, fascia media antice furcata fasciaque marginali ob- 

 scurioribus ; postica cinerascentes, fascia tenui discali 

 obscuriore. 



Noctua vindelicia, Frey. Neu. Beit. Schmett. vi. 82, pi. 531, f. 3. 

 Hydreecia vindelicia, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmeet. ii. 220, 1 18, f. 

 521—523. Guen. Noct. i. 127, 199. 



Bavaria. 



a, b. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



Var. Ala anticm obscure fuscce, fascia saturaiiore, stigmatibus 

 pallidioribus ; posticce pallide fuscce. Long. alar. 22 — 24 lin. 



Hydrsecia Petasitis, H. Doubleday, Zoologist, v. 1914. Steph. Cat. 

 Brit. Lep. 116. 



c. England. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



d. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 e,f. Scotland. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 



