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villosa. The under side of both are identical. Expands f to 1 inch, 

 20-26 millim. 



Habitat. — Colorado and California. 



M. Graefiaua, Tepper. "Avery pretty species, closely allied to pulchri- 

 pennis, but differing from it and all the other species in the genus by the yellow 

 secondaries margined all around with black, and having a large black discal spot; 

 the primaries are of a rather pale vinous red, with pale gray outer margin and 

 wide yellow median shade in which are the large reuiform and orbicular." The 

 markings are shown in PL VIII, fig. 59. The tibia are as in pulchripennis. 



Described by Mr. Tepper at my request from the unique 9 m his 

 collection. Expands i inch, 22 millim. 



Habitat. — Southern California. 



M. honesta, Grt., Papilio l,p. 77; PI. VIII, fig. 60. 



Distinguished from all others by the interrupted pale band of secon- 

 daries and pale spot in outer margin. Expands 1 inch, 22 millim. 



Habitat. — Washington Territory, Mount Hood. 



M. sueta, Grt., Buf. Bui. 1, p. 117, PI. Ill, fig. 10; Calif orniensis, Grt., Buf. 

 Bui. 1, p. 149, PI. VII, fig. 44, tibia, and PI. VIII, fig. 61, primary. 



The types of both these species are in my possession. The markings 

 on both are identical, but the ground color of Calif orniensis is darker 

 than in sueta, otherwise and on the reverse there is no difference. Ex- 

 pands li inch, 32 millim. 



HELIACA. H. Sch. 



Eyes naked, narrow ovate ; front full, with rough hairy vestiture ; palpi 

 short, fringed beneath ; tongue moderate ; body moderate, with coarse hairy 

 vestiture ; wings ample ; primaries with only slightly produced apices ; 

 tibiae not spinose, anterior unarmed ; abdomen of % with tufts at sides. 



The species that I refer to this genus differ from their European con- 

 geners by the somewhat stouter form, the somewhat less ample lirimaries 

 and the somewhat more produced apices, but the relationship is other- 

 wise so close, that I have no hesitation whatever in referring them here. 



The species are readily separable as follows : 



Primaries dark smoky brown, with yellow median shade, interrupted by the large 



dark reniform and orbicular diiiiiiliitivus. 



Primaries pale clay yellow, with lighter median space, markings identical with 



preceding fasciata. 



Primaries smoky brown, with wider yellow median shade; reniform smaller, an 



apical white patch and sinuate pale outer line ilubitsiii*. 



Primaries bright rosy crimson, darker at base; a creamy white median band and 



a rather wide steel-blue subterminal line nexilis. 



H. diuiiiiutivus, Grt.. Buf. Bui. I, p. 148 (Heliothis) ; id. II, p. 34 {Meli- 



chptria). 



.Separable from both the genera in which it has been heretofore placed 



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