180 GROTE & ROBINSON. 



parent, stained along the edges with obscure straw color and sometimes 

 with purplish. Beneath without marking ; the primaries outwardly 

 and superiorly stained with purplish. Exp. 32 to 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Texas (Belfrage). With the appearance of the typical 

 species of the genus, L. rubripennis differs from all known to us by 

 the broad purple rosy shades of the primaries. 



HELIOTHIS, Ochs. 

 Heliothis citrinellus, n. sp. ( Plate 2, fig. 79, %.) 



% 9 . — Pale lemon yellow. Head, thorax and primaries concolorous, 

 pale lemon yellow, immaculate. Hind wings silky white. A blackish 

 discal lunule and terminal band broken and discontinued inferiorly. 

 Abdomen whitish, stained with dusky. Male with discolored genital 

 tuft. Beneath, both wings whitish. Primaries with distinct black or- 

 bicular and reniforra spots and subterminal band. Secondaries with 

 discal spot and faint indications of terminal band. Female genitals 

 concealed. Exp. 25 — 27 mm. 



Hahitat. — Texas (Belfrage). Very different in coloration from any 

 species known to us. The following species of Heliothis, from North 

 America, are in our collection : 



Heliothis exprimens, 



Heliothis c.r2n-i7nens, Walk. C. B. M. Noct. p. 687. 



Not uncommon from Canada to Pennsylvania. Resembles the 

 European Heliothis umbra (Ili/droccia umbra, Hcl. marf/inata Auct.), 

 and is not improbably identical with it. 

 Heliothis nmbrosus. 



Heliothis nmbrosus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliil. Vol. 1, p. 219 (1863). 

 Habitat. — Massachusetts to Texas. A common species, destructive 

 to the Cotton Plant in its larval state. This is the Boll Worm of 

 Agricultural writers. Not improbably the same as the European H. 

 armigera. 



Heliothis phlogophagus. 



Heliothis phlo.cipliw/a, (err.) G. & R. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Aug. 18fi7. 

 Htibitaf. — Western States ; Colorado Territory. A common spe- 

 cies. Not improbably the same as the European H. dipsacea. 



Heliothis citrinellus. 



Habitat. — Texas. Viifc supra. 



Heliothis spinosae. 



Heliothis spinosae, Giienee. ISToct. Vol. 2, p. 182. (1852). 



Anthoecia hirtella, G.'ct R. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 6, p. 19. PI. 3. f. 3 ('806). 

 Habitat. — Canada; Rhode Island. A small species with^rauch the 

 appearance and the ornamentation of an Anthoecia. 



