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Subgenus Tumila, Quenée (1852). 
Type: Noctua nundina, Drury. 
Heliothis nundinus. 
Noctua nundina, Drury. 
Habitat, New York; Pennsylvania; New Jersey. 
Heliothis Meadi, Grote, Plate 3, fig. 5. 
é Fore wings bright olivaceous green, with silvery white transverse lines ; 
basal half-line silvery white; transverse anterior line rather broad, silvery, 
forming a single arcuation, interrupted about median nervure by two minute 
black streaks ; a similar interruption marks the transverse posterior line below 
median nervure; transverse posterior line silvery, forming two inward arcua- 
tions, the first to vein 5, the second to internal margin immediately on which 
the line straightens; median space with a pale diffuse shade inferiorly pre- 
ceding the t. p. line below the nervure; medially, on the cell, isa pale spot 
which extends superiorly along costal region to the t. p. line; the bright oli- 
vaceous green subterminal space extends opposite the cell to the terminal mar- 
gin, dividing the pale terminal space; the subterminal line is only indicated 
by the contrast between the bright subterminal and the pale creamy yellowish 
terminal space; fringes pale, cut with olivaceous green; hind wings whitish, 
with a broad, black marginal band, half interrupted as usual on the margin 
before anal angle, and a broad discal lunule fused with blackish basal scales ; 
fringes white; beneath creamy white; the primaries show an inferior basal 
black dash, two discal spots, the outer the larger, and a diffuse black inferior 
shade without the transverse line; hind wings show a blackish discal lunule 
and an abbreviated marginal band at anal angle; thorax and abdomen creamy 
whitish, paler beneath. 
Expanse, 26 m. m. Habitat, Colorado Territory (coll. Theo. L. 
Mead, No. 5). 
This is the most beautiful species perhaps of the genus, and it 
gives me pleasure to dedicate it to Mr. Mead, to whose kindness I 
owe an opportunity for examining a rich collection of Noctuidae 
from Colorado Territory, The present species differs throughout 
from H. nundinus, to which its resemblance is only general, so that 
a comparative description would be superfluous. 
BUL. BUF. SOC. NAT. SCI. (16) JULY, 1873. 
