122 >;OTES, x\EW SPECIES, ETC. 



HELlOTnis SlREX, Nov. S|). Expands j4 incli. Head and thurax vellow, inclining to nist colour; abdomen aliove black, 

 beneath yellowish. Upper surface ; priinarie.s shining grevish yellow, much same tint as in Lynx, (jucu., also style of decoration much 

 as in that species ; the basal part is rust or sienna coloured, mixed with black on or towards edge nearest tlie median space ; the submar- 

 ginal band is also rust coloured, with exterior and inner edges mixetl with black : this band is suddenly narrowed to a mere line about 

 one-third in from the costa ; an indefinite rust coloured sliade through middle of median s|)ace ; discal spot rather small ; fringes >ame 

 colour as ground of piiraaries. Secondaries all Idack, with pure white fringes. Under .surface of primaries black, with a white exte- 

 rior margin, and a narrow yellowish white edging on co.sta. Inferiors black, with large wliite apical space extending along costa, two- 

 thirds in ; fringe white. Te.xas, J. Boll i No. 45l. 



Heliotiits Ixclara, Nov. Sp. Expands 1 in. Head and body yellowish; back of abdonun, except terminal segments, shaded 

 with blackish gray. Upper .surface; primaries yellowish .gray, uniform in shade; a basal patcli of livelier darker yellow, shaded exte- 

 riorly with brown, this basal patch does not reach to costa; a rather narr(jw submarginal baud of tlarker colour than the ground, and 

 traver.sed through its length by a macidar shade of blackish. Secondaries greyish, with a very broad black margin, discal spot almost 

 imperceptible, fringe jiure white. Under side whitish, with a slight yellow tinge, especially on inner and costal parts of primaries, on 

 which are a blackish basal patch, discal spot and broad submarginal band, all three more or less merged into each other. Secondarie- 

 with a broad blackish submarginal band, which, however, reaches only from anal angle to about halfway between the latter and the 

 apex. Texas, J. Boll I No. 46), allied to the preceding H. Siren. 



Heliothis Nubila, Nov. Sp. Expands ^f in. Head and body above greyish, of an olivaceous greenish tinge ; beneath whit- 

 i.sh. Upper .surface ; primaries .same colour as body ; the median lines very faintly defined, especially the inner one, which is almo-st 

 obsolete; the submarginal space of a darker shade than rest of wing ; basal part scarcely distinguishable from median space; no dis- 

 cal spot or blotch perceptible ; fringe same colour as wings. Secondaries white, of a yellowish cast, marginal band broad, black and 

 .straight on inner edge; discal spot large and black ; some black .scales at ba.se; fringe white. Under surface yellowish or tawny white; 

 on primaries a longitudinal black basal patch reaching neither to costa or inner margin ; a round black discal spot ; a broad black sub- 

 marginal band wdiich does not extend to either inner margin or costa ; between it and the latter the colour is reddish. Secondaries ; an 

 indistinct discal spot, and a submarginal band, inner half of which is black and apical half reddish. Texas, .J. Boll i No. 48. i 



HeI/IOTIII.s RfBlGlxo.SA, Nov. .Sp. Expands 1} inches. Head, thorax and primaries, above, near the colour of Xanthia feniigin- 

 oUles, Guen., but a trifle more inclined to reddish, not so yellowi.sh ; abdomen paler, more whitish ; body below sprinkled with cinna- 

 mon coloured scales. Median lines of primaries white, faint, and rather irregular ; the outer and basal spaces shaded inconspicuously 

 with grey at these lines; otherwise no difl'erenee in shade of colour between median and outer and basal .spaces; fringe greyisji. In- 

 feriors pale tawny ; broad marginal band and discal spot, very faintly defined by slightly darker >hade of cinnamon, or reddish tawny. 

 Under surface same colour, pale-t at inner mar.gin ; discal spots barely visible ; no other definite ornamentation. Texas, .J. Boll ( No. .50 1. 



Heliothis Imperspicua, Nov. Sp. Expands 1\ inches. Head and thorax rather pale gray, inclining to olivaceous ; abdomen 

 oehrey white. Upper surface ; primaries same colour as thora.x, and in style of marking approach Rivulosa, Guen., and Thorenui, Grote, 

 though far paler in colour than either, resembling in this resjiect Schinia trij'ascia, Hub., Oleagina, Morrison, etc. The white line which 

 separates the basal from median spiace is but very little bent, and the one between the marginal and median space is not bent inwardly 

 below the middle as much as in the allied species above alluded lo, discal mark only perceptible by the slightest possible darker .shade. 

 Inferiors as in Rivulosa, but much paler. Under surface also much as in that .species, but far paler. Texas, J. Boll (No. 53j. This 

 species ha.s the .same relative appearance to Thoreaui, Grote, as the latter has to Rivulosa, Guen. 



Heliothis Ulti3i.\, Nov. .Sp. E.xpands 1 inch. Head and thorax above sober brown ; abdomen yellowish-ljrown ; beneath 

 yellowish ; some reddish scales at terminal half of abdomen. Upper surface; primaries same brown as thorax ; median space not difler- 

 ing much in tint from rest of wing; median lines narrow, white and indistinct, and much bent like in Spinosoe and Rivulosa, but the 

 median space is very much more contracted than in these ; discal shade almost iiuperceptible ; outer space a little paler at margin ; 

 fringe whitish. Superior wings yellow with broad black margin and small discal spot ; fringe white. Under surface coloured and 

 marked much as in Spraguei; but much paler throughout. Texas ; J. Boll (No. 49). 



Heliothls Spectaxda, Nov. Sp. Expands 1} inches. Head and thorax above pale greenish ; abdomen ochraceous white ; beneath 

 white ; fore legs dull red or maroon, median tarsi also reddish. Upper surface ; primaries, pale .subdued green, somewhat like the tints in 

 Schinia Trifascia, but greener, and crossed by three almost straight transverse paler bands or lines, the one adjoining the submarginal space 

 the widest, within tlie latter a transverse row of faint spots ; reniform and orbicular spots pale, but clearly defined ; fringe same colour 

 as rest of wing. .Secondaries white with broad brownish marginal border, broadest in the middle; fringe white. Beneath white with 

 greenish tinge and opalescent reflections ; a brown discal spot and faint evidences of an abbreviated submarginal band on the jirimaries. 

 One example, Texas ; J. Boll ( No. •52). Is apparently near to Heliothis Armigera and allies, but possibly may belong to another genus. 



jEniq.aia, Nov. Gen. Head very small, across the eyes at widest place scarce one-third the width of thorax, which latter is of 

 great breadth ; palpi long, tapering and close together, giving the appearance of a snout or proboscis ; antenn* nearly the length of ab- 

 domen, very slender, filiform ; me<lian and hind tibi* spurred ; abdomen, which is rather slight compared with the immense thorax, 

 projects beyond hind wing."! ; fore wings much the same shape as in Hypocala filicomis, Guen., but more produced on inner margin to- 

 wards but not at the ba.se ; hind wings broad, not strongly curved on outer margin. As the type is a unique, and not my property, I 

 could not denude it, and can, in consequence, say nothing of the nervation, exce|)ting that there appear to be a great number of sub- 

 costal veinlets on the superiors. The insect on which I have based this genus .seems in some respects to be allied to H. filicomis, 

 Guen., and in many more to be distinct therefrom. It is a 9 example, as denoted by the forked frenulum. 



.,Enigm.\ Miripicu.m, Nov. Sp., ?. Expands If inches. Head, palpi. and thorax above dark slate-grey; abdomen black with 

 each .segment narrowly edged behincl with yellow; anal brush yellow; beneath, palpi, head and body pale yellow, becoming darker 

 towards and at extremity of abdomen. Upper surface ; primaries small, same slate-grey as thorax, spiotted over whole sur/ace with small 

 dark points or dots which have a tendency to form tolerably regular transverse rows from costa to inner margin ; fringe concoloiu'ous 

 with wing. Inferiors black, an irregular, interrupted yellow mesial band extending from near anal angle somewhat upwards to middle 

 of wing, where it is broken by a line of the black ground colour, and continued by and terminating in a nearly round yellow spot which 

 lies much nearer the exterior margin than does the middle of the yellow band of which it forms a disconnected part ; it does not 

 extend to costa or apex, but has considerable of the black ground colour intervening; from a little within the middle of exterior 

 margin to the anal angle extends a cons])icuous yellow marginal patch, almost as in Hypocala filicomis; fringe light grey. Under 

 surface rather bright yellow ; priujaries with black submarginal and median bands, neither of which extend to costa or internal margin, 

 but near the latter are connected by a black band which extends nearly to the base of wing; fringe grey. Inferiors with a number of 

 scattered brown dots ; a large black spot at anal angle, and another of same size close to it ; these two spots, the latter of which is con- 

 tinued towards apex bv some brown scales, form an imperfect submarginal band ; an abbreviated black dash near abdominal margin. 

 One ?, Texas; J. Boil (No. 55). 



