collected in Chili. 119 



EPISEMID^. 



Heliophobus, Boisd. 



9. Heliophobus lithophilus, n. s. 



Primaries above black-brown ; costal border varying 

 from flesh-colour to pale red-brown, marbled with darker 

 brown ; inner four-fifths of upper radial vein, the median 

 vein, its second and third and part of its first branches, 

 bordered with white or flesh-colour ; an oblique sub- 

 basal greyish or dull flesh-coloured streak from the 

 median vein to the base of inner margin, bounded exter- 

 nally by an elliptical white-edged or flesh-tinted interno- 

 median spot and two black dashes ; " orbicular " spot 

 elongate-cuneiform, grey, sometimes black-edged and 

 bordered with white or flesh-colour; "reniform" spot 

 transverse, narrow, similar in coloration to the " orbicu- 

 lar " ; internal border pale red-brown ; an oblique discal 

 streak from apex to submedian vein, whitish or flesh- 

 coloured ; fringe pale flesh-coloured, traversed by three 

 slightly irregular greyish stripes ; secondaries with a 

 rather broad external grey border and grey veins ; other- 

 wise whitish ; head creamy whitish ; antennae brown, 

 white at base ; thorax chocolate or smoky brown, the 

 collar with slender greyish hind margin ; tegulge broadly 

 fringed with paler brown, and enclosing a black and 

 white longitudinal streak ; abdomen greyish brown, with 

 whitish basal and anal tufts ; under surface shining 

 sordid-white ; primaries greyish, and speckled with 

 darker scales towards the borders ; secondaries speckled 

 with grey on the costal and external borders. Expanse 

 of wings, 30 — 31 mm. 



Valparaiso. 



" Taken at light, and the pupa found under stones ; it 

 has the spiracles very strongly marked. December and 

 January." — T. E. 



It is just possible that this is the species intended 

 by Blanchard's extremely vague description of his 

 Noctua lineifera ; but as the identification must always 

 remain most uncertain until the type can be examined, 

 it has been necessary for me to name the species 

 before me. 



