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GORTYNA; APAMEA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
cjuarama. M. guarania Schs. (40 cl). Forewing ochreous-reddish, strewn with a darker brown, with blackish 
dentate transverse lines, the posterior line being more indistinct and distally bordered with white, both being 
submedianly connected by a black streak; a blackish oblique streak parts the apex, before the whitish undulate 
line there is in the centre a black faded dentate spot. Hindwing light brownish. Brazil. 
111. Genus: Gortyna o. 
Proboscis developed; palpi obliquely rising with a short last joint; the frons is smooth, the head and 
thorax is clad with scales, in front and behind with loose tufts, the abdomen with a series of tufts on the first 
rings. The neuration is normal. We mention here yet the more modern conception according to which the 
genus must be denominated Heloiropha Lecl., because the name Gortyna was applied by Hubner, in 1822, for 
the only species: micacea Esp. and fixed in the same way by Grote in 1895, for which reason this name must 
replace the former name Hydroecia Dup. — The larvae, as far as they are known, live in the stalks of water- 
or marsh-plants. 
caduca. G. caduca Grt. (40 c), as tvell as the following retis, has at the distal margin of the forewing on the 
upper median branch a slight projection and above it a very slight indentation. Forewing light red-brown, 
as far as the posterior transverse line densely irrorated with purple grey, being distally the darkest with blackish 
transverse lines and small red-brown maculae with lighter rings, the light undulate line being rather indistinct ; 
hindwing brown. Canada; United Staates. Very rare. 
rdis. G. retis Grt. (40 d) is somewhat similar to caduca , but the forewing is blackish-brown, suffused with 
violettish-grey, with lighter-striped veins, in the lower half before the margin white; the anterior transverse 
line is indistinctly double, the posterior line distally bordered with white; the small maculae with white rings, 
the undulate line also white. Hindwing brownish-grey, distally whitish. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. 
Both species flying like Erastriinae may belong together as forms. 
reniformis. G. reniformis Grt. (40 d) has a normal shape of the wings and is somewhat like the European leucostigma 
(Vol. Ill, p. 223. pi. 46 a); forewing purple brown with double transverse lines more or less filled up with whitish, 
the maculae surrounded with whitish, the reniform macula distally with a small white lima, the yellowish 
undulate line distally bordered with reddish-brown. Hindwing light yellowish-brown, at the margin darker. 
air a. •— The form atra Grt. (40 d) has darker blackish-brown fore wings with a bright, prominent white reniform 
insignata. macula. — ab. insignata Strd. (— ab. 2 Hmps .) is of a brighter brown, the metathoracal tuft is grey, the forewing 
in the central area irrorated with black, behind it whitish, the median and the branches rising from the lower 
cell-angle are white. A mostly common insect from Canada to the central parts of the United States. 
112. Genus: Ap itmea O. 
Separated from the preceding genus by the hair-shaped thoracal scales being intermixed with hair 
and by the centre of the collar being raised somewhat ridge-shaped. All the rest as in Gortyna, but the abdomen 
is also laterally somewhat hairy. Half a dozen of American species. 
velata. A. velata Wlcr. (= serra G. & It.) (40 d). Forewing on the red-brown ground in the central and 
marginal areas irrorated with a darker colour, with double undulate transverse lines, the posterior lines very 
dehiscent with dark vein-dots behind them, the reddish-centred maculae with lighter grey rings; before the 
reddish undulate line there is darker brown shading. Hindwing greyish-brown, at the margin lighter. Canada 
to New York. 
nictitans. A. nictitans L. (40 d). This species having been dealt with in the palearctic part (Vol. Ill, p. 224) 
americana. also occurs in America with a number of forms. The principal form americana Sp. (=- lusca Sm., atlantica 
Sm.) (40 e) is on the forewing of a brighter orange-red, less irrorated with brown, only the central area being 
mostly defined by a slightly darker shade; the ring-macula is orange, the reniform macula likewise orange 
interoceani- with white dots at the lower end. — interoceanica Sm. is of a browner ground-colour and originates more from 
ca - West Canada, whereas pacifica Sm. (40 e), from California, exhibits a greyer colouring. •— The range of the 
pan, tea. S p ec - eg ex t en ds from Canada to Colorado and California. Larva yellowish or reddish-grey with fine light grey 
longitudinal lines; it lives on grasses. 
senilis. A. senilis Sm. (40 e) has ochreous-yellowish forewings tinted with red-brown, with double darker, 
finely crenulate transverse lines, and the maculae also finely surrounded with red-brown, and the undulate 
line is also double. Hindwing somewhat more yellowish. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah. 
flavostigma. A. flavostigma B. & Benj. is allied to senilis, but the ground-colour is a dull brown hued with reddish, 
the markings are of a deeper red-brown colour and more distinct, the reniform macula is filled up with ochreous 
yellow. Hindwing light reddish-brown. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. New Mexico, 
