242 J. B. SMITH. 



head long and fine ; thorax convex, clothed with fine silken hair ; abdo- 

 men more or less conic, with tufts of fine divergent hair at sides ; 9 

 ovipositor extruded ; tibiae spinose ; anterior abbreviated, with a long 

 inner and short outer claw (PI. VII, fig. 42); primaries with depressed 

 costal margin and produced apices. Separated from Me/icliptria only by 

 the clypeal projection. 



Mr. Grote's original description of the genus in Buf. Bui. 1, p. 115, 

 is all wrong. He says the tibiae are not spinose. and is explicit in stat- 

 ing that there is no clypeal projection — the exact opposite is the fact. 

 The wings (primaries) are said to differ from Melic/iptria, being nar- 

 rower and more lanceolate, in fact they agree precisely with Heliothis 

 carcfui, which Mr. Grote says is the type of the genus. 



In Buf. Bui. II, p. 320, this description is so far corrected as to men- 

 tion that the tibiae are spinose. 



H. mo<licella 7 Grt., Buf. Bui. I, p. 116, PI. Ill, fig.. 12, PI. VIII, 

 fig. 55, is the only species and is readily recognized by the purplish 

 primaries, having an oblique pale yellow fascia from near apex nearly to 

 the internal angle. 



Expands f inch, nearly, 16 millim. 



Ha hit a t . — California. 



AXENUS, Grt. 



Buf. Bui. I, 152. 



Eyes naked, minute, reniform ; head small, retracted ; clypeus with a 



broad thin plate inferiorly, which is not exceeded by the short palpi ; 



form stout ; vestiture hairy, somewhat divergent ; primaries ample ; tibiae 



not spinose. 



Related to Hdiolonche by the clypeal structure, and to Hefiaca by 

 the form. The species is 



A. arvalis, Grt., Buf. Bui, I. 152, PI. IV, %. 8, % . 



The species is readily distinguished by the structural characters, by 

 the dark " olivaceous " blackish color and paler powdery transverse lines 

 over both wings, and by the long paler fringes. Expanse 16-20 mil- 

 lim. 



Two varieties, ochraceus and ampins, Hy. Edw., have been recently 

 described. I know neither. 



Habitat. — California. 



I have referred this genus and species to the Heliothids rather than to 

 the u Eustrotiinae" on account of the clypeal structure, reniform eyes. 

 and divergent hairy vestiture. 



Anna]>/ii/a, Grt., also has ovate or reniform eyes, and has much of the 



