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LOPHOTYNA; GORTYNA; HYDROECIA. By W. Warren. 
47. Genus: Lopliotyna 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth, with a large tuft of hair; the vertex also tufted; palpi 
obliquely porrect, the second segment fringed in front with long hair, the third quite short; antennae of G 
ciliated; head and thorax clothed with scales; the prothorax with an erect triangular crest, the meta¬ 
thorax with a spreading crest; fore wing with prominent apex, the termen obliquely curved, and crenu- 
late; neuration normal. Type L. albirena Moore. 
albirena. L. albirena Moore (20 a). Forewing dull grey brown, darker along termen; the veins with dark 
streaks; inner and outer lines dark, conversely edged with white; the inner angled outwards on subcostal 
vein, then oblique and waved; the outer bent outwards below the costa, then dentate lunulate, the 
teeth forming streaks on the veins; subterminal line whitish, preceded by a brown shade; terminal line waved, 
black; fringe with a fine pale basal line; claviform stigma a minute dark dot; orbicular also small, round, 
with pale annulus defined by brown; reniform a white bar with a point above it and a bifid spot 
below it on outer edge; hindwing fuscous brown; the fringe with pale basal line. Sikkim, N. India; 
Calcutta. 
48. Genus: Gortyiia Tr. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth, rounded, roughly scaled; palpi upturned, the second seg¬ 
ment long, densely haired, the third short; antennae of <$, typically, pubescent; metathorax and dorsum 
crested; pectus and femora woolly. Larva feeding in the roots and stems of marsh plants, living small through 
winter and feeding up in spring, the imago emerging in late summer; pupa in an earthen cocoon. Type 
G. leucostigma Hbn. 
Sect. III. Antennae of G pubescent m e r e 1 y. 
leucostigma. G. leucostigma Hbn. (= khasiana Moore) (Vol. 3, pi. 46). Fore wing dull dark brown, faintly reddish 
tinged; the veins powdered with grey scales; the terminal area beyond subterminal line black brown, 
except at apex; median area between subcostal vein and vein 1 somewhat darker than the rest of wing; 
inner and outer lines indistinctly double; the inner outwardly oblique, the outer bent on vein 5; cla- 
viform stigma hardly visible; orbicular oblique, elliptical, of the ground colour, with paler annulus; 
the reniform white or dull yellow, containing a double dark lunule with pale centre; the outer edge 
of this dark inner lunule is sometimes obsolete, in which case the stigma appears more solidly yellow¬ 
ish or white; the space between outer and subterminal lines is always slightly, often visibly, paler 
lunina. than the ground colour; hindwing fuscous grey; —- in the ab. lunitia Haw. (= intermedia Tutt) (Vol. 3 
pi. 46 a) the outer fascia is conspicuously paler, becoming pale brown, or pinkish ochreous, the median vein 
albipuncta. and veins 3, 4 at their base are white, and both stigmata are more strongly marked; — ab. albipuncta 
Tutt (Vol. 3, pi. 46 a) is comparatively a rare form, with nearly the whole reniform stigma snow-white; — 
fibrosa, fibrosa Hbn. (fig. 385) represents a bright reddish fulvous form, which may exist, but which no one ap- 
laevis. pears to have seen; — laevis Btlr., (Vol. 3 pi. 46a) the Japanese form, is, as usual, larger than the 
European, and the outer line appears rather more strongly excurved beyond cell and incurved below. 
This common palaearctic insect occurs in the Khasia Hills, Assam. Larva blackish brown; the dorsal 
and subdorsal lines somewhat paler; thoracic and anal plates blackish; head brown; feeds in roots and 
stems of large water-plants, such as Iris pseudacorus and Cladium mariscus. 
49. Genus: Hydroecia Guen.~ 
Tongue present; frons rounded, smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment long, 
rough-haired below, the third small, porrect; prothorax with a strong erect crest; abdomen large and long, 
very stout in the $, the anal segment subquadrate in the G, the lateral tufts of hair well developed. 
Larva elongate, with the tubercles largely developed; feeding in the stems of various low plants, pu¬ 
pating in situ, and emerging from a hole previously prepared. The egg overwinters, the imago emerg¬ 
ing in autumn. Type H. micacea Esp. 
