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Beneath largely blackish, without marks; the apices and costal region and 
the fringes of both wings pale yellowish. 
Hxpanse, 18 m.m. A single specimen on flowers in July. Cen- 
tral Alabama. Collection of this Society. 
The fore tibiae are provided with a double row of spines, ter- 
minating in longer claws; the other tibiae appear to me unarmed, 
Heliothis villosus, Grote. 
Melicleptria villosa, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. p. 531, Plate 6, fig. 6, 1864. 
Habitat, Colorado Territory. 
Heliothis suetus, Grote, Plate 3, fig.10¢. 
6.—Ocelli; eyes naked; antennae simple, scaled above, pilose beneath. 
Body clothed with pale sericeous olivaceous hair. Fore wings dull purple, 
equally overlaid with pale sericeous scales. No traces of ordinary lines. 
Below median nervure, between the inceptions of veins 2 and 3, an even 
nearly white band descends straightly to internal margin. Above median 
nervure a whitish discal blotch takes the place of the orbicular and a second 
broader, at the extremity of the cell, the place of the reniform. These two 
discal demi-bands seem on either side continuous with the inferior band 
which hence has a furcate appearance. Terminal space paler than the rest 
of the wing, wanting the purple color, and indicating, by contrasting, a sub- 
terminal line. Hind wings black with a broad median fuscia interrupted 
medially and thus forming two large spots, the lower subquadrate, the upper 
ovate; fringes white. Beneath, largely white; costal edge of primaries 
white; the deep black basal patch not attaining costa; a large subquadrate 
black discal spot ; transverse line indicated and followed by a large diffuse 
blackish shade inferiorly. Hind wings largely whitish; the black basal 
patch does not attain costa and partly absorbs the large discal spot. The 
wide, hind border is abbreviated. 
Expanse, 23 m.m. Habitat, Colorado Territory (coll. Theo. L. 
Mead, No. 7). 
Resembles the European H. purpurascens, but is more faintly 
colored and the band of the fore wings is single inferiorly. 
Heliothis persimilis, Grote, Plate’3, fig. 119. 
@.—Perhaps the opposite sex or a variety of H. suetus. It differs as 
follows: smaller and with olivaceous scales margining the median fascia 
