THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. X.] MAY, 1877. [No. 168. 



HELIOTHIS SCUTOSA; 

 Bv Edward A. Fitch. 



Heijotttts scutosa. 



The palpi are rather conspicuously porrected ; the 

 antennae are simple in both sexes ; the fore wings have the 

 costal margin slightly arched, and are almost pointed at 

 the tip; their colour is pale smoky gray, but indistinctly 

 marbled with lighter and darker markings; the discoidal 

 spots are very distinct, their median area is considerably 

 darker than the ground colour of the wing, and they have 

 a still darker circumscription ; they are contained in a 

 moderately well defined median band ; there is a somewhat 

 irregular but very distinct pale line almost parallel with the 

 hind margin, on which is a series of seven compound black 

 and gi'ay dots ; the wing-rays are distinctly pale ; the hind 

 wings are very pale gray, smoky at the base ; with a broad 

 marginal smoky band, which contains a pale blotch about 

 the middle, divided by a dark wing-ray, and a smaller light 

 spot is very faintly visible near the tip; there is also a dark 

 gray, well defined discoidal spot, and a distinct narrow 

 waved smoky line just before the marginal band, fringe pale ; 

 the head and thorax are gray, the body whitish gray. The 

 species varies slightly in the intensity of its colouring and 



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