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Subgenus Tamila, Quen6e (1852). 



Type : Noctua uundina, Drury. 



Ucliotliis uuudiiius. 



Noctua nundina, Drury. 

 JlaOilcd, 'Now York; Pennsylvimiii; New Jersey. 



Heliothis Mcadi, Grote, Plate 3, fig. 5. 



$ . — Fore wings bright olivaceous green, with silvery white transverse lines ; 

 basal half-line silvery white ; transverse anterior line rather broad, silvery, 

 forming a single arcuation, interrupted about median nervure by two minute 

 black streaks ; a similar interruption marks the transverse posterior line below 

 median nervure ; transverse posterior line silvery, forming two inward arcua- 

 tions, the first to vein 5, the second to internal margin immediately on which 

 the line straightens ; median space with a pale diffuse shade inferiorly pre- 

 ceding the t. p. line below the nervure ; medially, on the cell, is a pale spot 

 which extends superiorly along costal region to the t. p. line ; the bright oli- 

 vaceous green subterminal space extends opposite the cell to the terminal mar- 

 gin, dividing the pale terminal space ; the subterminal line is only indicated 

 by the contrast between the bright subterminal and the pale creamy yellowish 

 terminal space ; fringes pale, cut with olivaceous green ; hind wings whitish, 

 with a broad, black marginal band, half interrupted as usual on the margin 

 before anal angle, and a broad discal lunule fused with blackish basal scales ; 

 fringes white ; beneath creamy white ; the primaries show an inferior basal 

 black dash, two discal spots, the outer the larger, and a diifuse black inferior 

 shade without the transverse line ; hind wings show a blackish discal lunule 

 and an abbreviated marginal band at anal angle ; thorax and abdomen creamy 

 whitish, paler beneath. 



Expanse, 26 m. m. Habitat, Colorado Territory (coll. Theo. L. 

 Mead, No. 5). 



This is the most beautiful species perhaps of the genus, and it 

 gives me pleasure to dedicate it to Mr. Mead, to whose kindness I 

 owe an opportunity for examining a rich collection of Noctuidae 

 from Colorado Territory, The present species differs throughout 

 from H. nundinus, to which its resemblance is only general, so that 

 a comparative descnptinn would bo sii]i('vfliionP. 



BI'L. BUF. SOC. NAT. SCI. (IC) JULY, 1873. 



