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costa; an indefinite rust colored shade through the middle of median spare: dis- 

 cal spot rather small; fringes same color as ground of primaries; secondaries all 

 black With pure white fringes; under surface of primaries black with a white 

 exterior margin, and a narrow yellowish white edging on costa; inferiors black, 

 with large white apical space extending along costa two-thirds in ; fringe white. 

 Habitat.— Texas, J. Boll. 



Heliothis nubila, Strk.. Lep. 122,-Expands 15.16 inch—Head and body 

 above grevish,-of an olivaceous green tinge; beneath whitish; upper surface; 

 primaries 'same color as body ; the median lines very faintly defined, especially 

 the inner one, which is almost obsolete; the sub-marginal space of a darker shade 

 than the rest of the wing; basal part scarcely distinguishable from the median 

 space; no discal spot or blotch perceptible; fringe same color as wings; secon- 

 daries white of a yellowish cast, marginal band broad, black and straight on inner 

 edge • discal spot large and black : some black scales at base ; fringes white ; under 

 surface yellowish or tawny white ; on primaries a longitudinal black basal patch 

 reaching neither to costa or inner margin: around black discal spot; abroad 

 black submarginal band which does not extend to either inner margin or costa; 

 between it and the latter the color is reddish : secondaries ; an mdist.nct discal spot 

 and a sub-marginal band, inner half of which is black and apical half reddish. 

 Habitat.— Texas, J. Boll. 



This is almost certainly identical with Avthoeiia mortua, Grt. 

 HeliothiS lanul, Strk., Lep. mi-Expands 1-1.16 inches.-Head and 

 body white, lightly tinged with sienna or rust brown at basal part of thorax and 

 tips of patagia'e: upper surface : primaries white and not very dark rust brown ; 

 the basal third is at and near base brown, then white with scattered brown points, 

 then come, a line which extends from costa to inner margin as in Rtvulom, Regia, 

 etc but not as much bent as in these species; this line is succeeded by the me- 

 dian space, which is brown and encloses two conspicuous white spots, the largest 

 i8 in thediscoidal cell-, the other half way between it and the inner margin the 

 [argest of these white spots is joined exteriorly by a metallic lead-colored discal 

 spot; the outer edge of the median space, which is very much produced opposite 

 the discal spot, is succeeded by a white line edged outwardly with brown beyond 

 this is again white, then an irregular jagged line of brown edged outwardly with 

 white; this is succeeded by the marginal band of brown with a row of minute 

 black spots; fringe white with brown points at tips of veins; secondar.es silky 

 white with a very faint brownish sub-marginal band ; fringe long and white . 

 under surface white, with markings of primaries in a manner somewhat faintly 

 repeated in costal and exterior parts. 

 Habitat. — Texas. 



Heliolhis gloriosa, Strk., Lep. U2.-Head and body above white, with 

 pale olivaceous shades; beneath white; antennae and legs white ; upper surface 

 primaries dull purplish red and olivaceous, neither of these colors intense, 

 marked somewhat after the manner of Rivulosa and allies; the basal third of 

 win- is purplish and is separated from the median spare by a pure white line 

 that°widens at the veins thus forming teeth; the median space is olivaceous and 

 encloses a purplish discal spot, which latter is prolonged outwardly to and beyond 

 another white toothed line which separates the median from the outer space; the 

 latter is purplish anteriorly and olivaceous marginally, the latter color is more or 



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