HYDRŒCIA NELITA, STRECKER

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In Supplement No. 1 to his work “Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, Indigenons and Exotic,” dated Sept. 15th, 1898, Dr.Herman Strecker described a species under the above name as follows:

“At first glance might be taken for a small Nitela, but it is a darkr, warmer colour, more towards a rich chestnut. The t.p. is not so conspicuous, and is much more upright, and its course is rather from the costa outwardly oblique than inwardly oblique. One example has the space from the base to t.p. chestnut brown, exteriorly the t.p. is accompanied by a broad, paler ashen shade, beyond which the brown again prevails. In another the whole wing is brown, the t.p. only being discernible on the closest inspection. Beyond what I have mentioned, the differences between this and Nitela, excepting size, are not very marked. Expands one inch. Types, two examples from Chicago, Illinois.”