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median lines, appear to me to belong to II. pauxillus; they differ by 

 being brighter tinted beneath. In either species the dots seem to 

 be sometimes continent on the secondaries. These three specimens 

 are a little moulded and not in proper condition for study. II. 

 diminntivus is apparently easily separable from 11. villosns by the 

 uuder-surfiice. 



Heliothis (Melicleptria) Californiciis, Orote. 



S . — Size of tlie European H. purpurascens and a little stouter than H. suetus 

 from Colorado Territory. All the tibiae spinose. Fore wings deep purple-red 

 over black. Some specimens have lost the intense purple-red and have a 

 brassy -black hue. The usual markings : two whitish quadrate discal marks 

 and a square patch below median vein, all margined by the subobsolete 

 approximate median lines ; fringes dark. Hind wings black with two large 

 whitish spots, the upper the larger, sometimes connected ; fringes whitish. 

 Beneath grayish ; wings with black bases, large black discal marks on the 

 whitish median spaces and with wide black terminal shades, discontinued 

 superiorly. 



Expanse, 25 m. m. Habitat, California (Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 

 93). Four specimens examined. More thickly haired and stouter 

 than H. suetus, without the paler contrasting terminal sj)ace ; the 

 snbterminal line is imperceptible in II. Californicus. 



Heliothis piilogophagiis, Grote and Robinson. 



IlaMtat, Sierra Nevada and Oregon (coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 

 151) ; California (coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 1250). 



Heliothis armigera {Riiiner). 

 IlaMtat, California (coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 3G74), 



Annaphila^ n. g. 



A genus belonging to v. Heineman's group Anartidae, with broad and short 

 wings, hairy vestiture and constricted eyes, hence related to Omia, The ocelli 

 are unusually large, remote from the naked lashless compound eyes owing to 

 the increased width of the epicranial tegument which, from its globosity, 

 seems to cover the hinder portion of the latter. Antennae scaled, ciliate 



