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Heliocheilus paradoxus, Grotc. 



Tlii.< has boon collected in Texas by Mr. Belfraije. 

 Anthoecia villosa {Melicleptria vil. Grote, Pioc. Ent. Soc. Pliil. vol. :i. ]■>. .">:;i 

 Plate (i, f. (•)). 



This belongs to Lederer's section A of the genus Heliothis — 

 Weibchen niit vorstehendem Legestachel — and bears a certain resem- 

 blance in size and ornaiiicntatioi) to the pjuropcan An. cardui. 



ANTHOECIA, Boisd. 

 Anthoecia thoreaui, n. sp. ( Plato 2, fig. 80, 9 • ) 



S 9 . — Obscure olivaceous blackish ashen. Size large. Primaries 

 with the middle field palest; tliis latter margined on either side by 

 the two usual pale arcuated and flexuous lines which are narrower 

 and fainter than ordinarily and limit the dark basal and terminal 

 fields of the wings. A diffuse darker discal spot. Secondaries with 

 broad diffuse faintly darker borders and ftunt discal spot, somewhat 

 silky and tinged with browni.sh. Beneath, the secondaries are palest. 

 Both wings show indistinctly discal spots and double transverse suh 

 terminal lines. Exj). 36 to 38 mm. 



ILthifaf. — Atlantic District. Resembles A. marginata (^4. rlvulomt- 

 Guen.) but is much larger more obscurely colored and wants the pro- 

 minent white median lines of that species. In A. thoreaui the median 

 lines are less even, more irregular than in A." marginata. We have 

 specimens before us from N. Y., Penn., and Alabama. A. marginata 

 occurs commonly from Mass. to Texas. A. thoreaui is of less fre(juent 

 occurrence than its ally, but will probably be taken in the same locali- 

 ties. 



TARACHE, Hdbner. 

 Tarache cretata, n. sp. ( Plate 2, fig. 78, 9 • ) 



% 9 . — White. Primaries whitish with faint traces of a transverse 

 anterior "shade ; a triangular dark clouded spot at the middle of costa. 

 A dark purplish terminal space widening to internal margin, i nter- 

 sected by two narrow rivulous white lines, the outer the most distinct. 

 This dark terminal space is shaded with olivaceous along its inner 

 edge inferiorly, while at the apex there is a reddish lunulate mark 

 more or less distinct. Fringes whitish. Secondaries whitish, irides- 

 cent, more or less stained with blackish along external margin. I'n- 

 dersurface immaculate; primaries largely stained with blackish. Head 

 and thorax white, immaculate. Legs white, silky. Exj). 20 to 22 

 mm. 



Habitat. — Texas (Belfrage). A smaller species than T. delecta, 

 wanting the yellow secondaries. With that species the terminal space 

 of the primaries shows a resemblance in color and ornamentation to 



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