136 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



EuROis, Huhner. 

 36. Eu7'ois intermissa. 

 Haclena intermissa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., xi., p. 587, 



n. 66 (1857). 

 No reference given to the number " 61 " in Mr. Ed- 

 monds' notes. 



XYLINID^. 



Xylina, Ochs. 



37. Xylina cossoides, n. s. 



Primaries above silver-grey, transversely striated with 

 blackish ; orbicular and reniform large, slightly tinted 

 with testaceous, and outlined in black ; the orbicular not 

 complete, the marginal black line being carried down- 

 wards with a double undulation almost to the submedian 

 vein, then curving upwards and inwards to the base, 

 where it turns abruptly at a very acute angle back into 

 the cell, and terminates as it reaches the inner transverse 

 line ; the latter is blackish and zigzag ; discal line 

 blackish, dentate-sinuate, oblique, abruptly angulated at 

 the upper radial, connected with the outer margin by the 

 veins, which are also blackish between this line and the 

 margin ; a submarginal series of white-edged black 

 dots ; secondaries opaline-white, sordid in the female, 

 the veins and outer border more or less dusky ; fringe 

 white, with a more or less defined undulated dusky stripe ; 

 body grey ; collar with two bisinuated transverse black 

 lines ; under surface coloured as in OcJiropleura diana.* 

 Expanse of wings, 32 mm. 



Las Zorras ; taken at flowers in December. 



HELIOTHID^. 



Heliothis, Guen, 



38. Heliothis armigcra. 



Noctnaarmiqera, Hiibner, Samml. Eur. Schraett. Noct., 

 pi. 79, fig. 370 (1805—24). 



No reference to the number " 60." 



* This coloration for the under surface of the wings repeats 

 itself in different families of Chilian Noctuites in a most singular 



