Nov., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 423 



Heliolonche Indiana n. sp , Smith. 



"Head, thorax and abdomen black, clothed above with long fine 

 whitish hair : the tint on head tending to yellowish and on the thorax 

 to purplish : in well preserved specimens the segments of the abdomen 

 are marked with paler rings and in the males there is a tendency to a 

 yellowish anal tuft. Beneath the hair is finer and more sparse, 

 yellowish. The primaries at first sight appear to be almost uniformly 

 purplish carmine. Closer examination of a large series shows that 

 the narrow even terminal space is decidedly paler with a purplish wash 

 over a luteous base, while the median area is paler and decidedly more 

 purplish. The contrasts are not very marked in any case, and some- 

 times almost absent. Fringes whitish. Secondaries black, immacu- 

 late, fringes white. Beneath ; primaries black on disc, costal margin 

 more or less carmine tinged the apex and outer margin tending to 

 luteous, inner margin more or less yellowish : a large more or less 

 obvious deeper black discal spot : secondaries with costal and apical 

 areas carmine, then black to the inner margin, fringes whitish, an in- 

 defined large discal blacker spot. Expands .62 - .72 inches or 15.5 - 

 i8mm. 



"Habitat. Hessville, Indiana, May 3Oth, June 6, 13. 



"Ten males and nine females, all in good or fair condition 

 from Mr. Alexander Kwiat, at whose request I have prepared 

 the above description and who will give further details concern- 

 ing the habits of the species and the circumstances relating to 

 its capture." 



On the upper side there is little variation. On the underside 

 there is a considerable range in the proportion of the black 

 and purplish areas. Sometimes the black predominates, leaving 

 only a narrow purplish or carmine costal and apical area : the 

 other extreme is where the wing has a carmine wash over a 

 yellowish base, the black restricted to a large discal spot a sub- 

 terminal band and a basal shade extending somewhat through 

 the centre of the wing. 



In structural details the species agrees in most details with 

 tnodicclla. The front is not protuberant and there is a nar- 

 row thickened frontal ridge along the inferior border. The 

 anterior tibiae are somewhat shortened, broad and flattened 

 with a very long curved claw-like spine at the inner side of tip 

 and two stout spines above it : at the outer side there is a shorter 

 and smaller curved spine at tip and two others not much smaller 



