300. | HETEROCERA. 
straw-colour, while others are quite dark brown; and many of our examples do not 
differ from European ones. The specimen captured by Mr. Godman at El Paso, Texas, 
is smaller and darker in colour than any we have seen from Central America. 
2. Heliothis phlogophagus. 
_ Heliothis phloxiphaga, Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 1877. 
Heliothis phlogophagus, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 36 (1882). 
Heliothis luteitinctus, Grote, List of Noct. of Am. north of Mexico, p. 19, footnote no. 24 (1875). 
Heliothis phlogophagus, var. luteitinctus, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 36, and foot- 
note (1882) *. 
Hab. North America, Kansas ?, Illinois 1, Colorado :—Mexico, Milpas in Durango 
5900 feet (Forrer), Mexico city (Hoge). 
Our Mexican specimens do not differ from those named H. luteitinctus in Grote’s 
collection now in the British Museum. 4. luteitinctus, according to Grote, is a yellow- 
winged variety of H. phlogophagus. The larva of this species is stated 1 to feed upon 
Phlox. 
ANTHC:CIA. 
Anthecia, Boisduval, Gen. et Ind. Meth. Europ. Lep. p. 162 (1840) ; Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. 
vi. p. 183; Walker, Cat. xi. p. 691; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 36 (1882). 
Walker included twelve species in this genus—five from Europe, six from North 
America, and one from an unknown locality. Numerous species from North America 
have since been added to it. The genus is not adopted by Staudinger in his European 
Catalogue. 
1. Anthecia meskeana. 
Lygranthecia meskeana, Grote, Canad. Entom. vii. p. 224°. 
Anthecia meskeana, Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 36 (1882). 
Heliothis fastidiosa, Streck. Lep. N. Am. p. 121 (1876)*. _ 
Hab. Nortu America, Texas ! *.—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 
Our specimen from Jalapa agrees with one in the Grote collection. According to 
Grote (Canad. Entom. viii. p. 26), Héliothis fastidiosa is not distinct from A. meskeana. 
2. Anthecia emessa, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 4.) 
Primaries with the base purplish-brown crossed by a dark brown curved line, beyond this olive-green shading 
off almost to white, the whole part limited externally by a second brown line, and thence almost to the 
outer margin olive-brown, the latter shaded with pink, the fringe greyish ; secondaries blackish-brown, 
paler at the base; the underside of both wings uniformly blackish-brown: head, thorax, and abdomen 
pale olive-brown, the underside of the abdomen greyish-white, the antenne and legs pale brown. 
Expanse 13 inch. 
Hab. GuatTeMALa, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion). 
One specimen only of this beautiful insect was captured. It is not closely allied 
to any other species known to me. 
