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titure somewhat divergent, and consisting of flattened hair and scales; 

 primaries rather short and broad with somewhat produced apices ; tibiae 

 spinose ; anterior but little abbreviated, with a moderate, pointed claw at 

 inner and one or two small claws at outer side of tip ; abdomen conic, of 

 the usual HeUothkl form. 



This genus is based on a species of Tamils and one of Melidiptria ; 

 from the former it differs by the reniform eyes and armature of fore 

 tibia, from the latter by the scaly vestiture. 



The species are as follows : 



Secondaries black, with an entire white band near base: primaries with a whit- 

 ish median space; reniform pale, indistinct vanella. 



Secondaries black, with an interrupted white band beyond the middle, a narrow 

 white median space on primaries, divided by the distinct dark reniform, 



permiiiuta. 

 P. vanella, Grt. Can. Ent. 2, 197 ( Tamila) ; PI. VII, fig. 39, tibia, and PL 

 VIII. fig. 53, wing. 



Markings sufficiently shown in figure ; the tibia is very like that of 

 Melidiptria, but the palpi are different, and the vestiture will readily 

 separate the two. With Tamila nundina, the type of that, genus, this 

 species has nothing in common. Expands | inch, 20 millim. 

 Habitat. — Nevada and California. 



H. permiiiuta, Hy. Edw., Papilio 1,21 {Melidiptria); PL VII, fig. 40, 

 tibia, and PL VIII, fig. 54, wing. 



The armature of the anterior tibia differs from that of the foregoing 

 species, by having a supplemental small claw at outer side ; the median 

 band of primaries is not so distinct ; the markings differ as shown in fig- 

 ure, aud the size is perceptibly smaller. Expands f inch, 17 millim. 

 Habitat. — Southern California. 



HELIOSEA, Grt. 

 Buf. Bui. 2, 220. 



Like Heliophana, but with the fore wings more widened outwardly, 

 and by the inner claw of the fore tibia being single. 



The species is pictipenrtis, Grt., Buf. Bui. 2, 220; Illustrated Essay, 

 PI. Ill, fig. 32. The species is unknown to me except from the figure 

 and description which is as follows : " Fore wings pale clay color with two 

 vinous purple lines, the inner arcuate, the outer subsinuate ; basal and 

 terminal spaces somewhat olivaceous, as is the thorax and head ; costa 

 shaded with vinous purple as are the fringes ; hind wings black, with a 

 broad white band ; abdomen black, pale at tip ; beneath pale, with black- 

 ish shades at the base and before internal angles of the wings. Expanse 

 14 millim. " 



Hob if a t. — Calif i irn ia . 



