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Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with rough hair in front 

 and extending to just beyond frons, which has a rounded prominence ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antennae ciliated ; head and thorax smoothly clothed "with hair 

 and scales ; fore tibiae spined at sides and with slender apical pair of claws ; 

 mid and hind tibiae spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Forewing with vein 3 

 from near angle of cell ; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3'4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6'7 from upper 

 angle. 



Sect. I. (Heliocheilus). Forewing of male with the costa dilated and thick- 

 ened at middle with an elliptical patch of ribbed hyaline membrane below it 

 and a more elongate patch in the cell ; the subcostal nervure bent downwards 

 and the veins from its extremity distorted. 



A. Hindwing with black fasciae in submedian fold and on 



inner margin translucens. 



R. Hindwing without black fasciae in submedian fold and 



on inner margin hyalosticta. 



1605. Chloridea translucens. 



1605. a. Chloridea hyalosticta. 



Sect. II. (Chloridea). Forewing of male normal. 



A. Hindwing with large black discoidal spot dipsacea. 



B. Hindwing without large black discoidal spot. 



a. Forewing with subterminal black point above 



tornus. 

 a 1 Forewing with prominent dark marks on costa 



above reniform and at postmedial band peltigera. 



b ' Forewing without prominent dark marks on costa. nuhigera. 



b. Forewing without subterminal black point above 



tornus. 

 a 1 Forewing with the postmedial line indistinct 



and strongly dentate obsoleta. 



&' Forewing with the postmedial line distinct, 



double, and hardly dentate asmlta. 



1601. a. Chloridea dipsacea, Linn. Syst. Nat., xii, p. 856 (1766). Esp. 

 Schmett., pi. 172, ff 1-3 ; Ilubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett Noct. f, 

 311 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., vii, pi. 119, f. 2. 



Heliothis maritima, Grasl. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr, 18" 5, p. 68. pi. 7. 

 „ spergularia , Led. Noct. Eur. p. 230 (1857). 



adaucta, Butl. 111. Het., B.M.III.,p. 19, pi. 45, f. 4 (1878). 

 Head and thorax pale-brownish tinged with olive ; abdomen olive-grey 

 irrorated with black, thickly on dorsal surface, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. 

 Forewing pale olive-grey ; the sub-basal line represented by black points below 

 costa and cell ; an indistinct irregularly dentate antemedial line ; the orbicular 

 usually represented by three black points in the form of a triangle ; reniform 



