52 NOCTUID.E. 



Bab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, 1 $ type illiterate/,, New York, 

 Wisconsin, Illinois, Mendota, 1 2 > Florida (Doubleday), 1 6 type, 

 Missouri. Exp. $ 32, $ 36 millim. 



Genus PYRRHIA. 



Type. 



Pyrrhia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 233 (1827) purptcrina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching 

 middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male almost simple and somewhat 

 laminate; thorax clothed entirely with hair and with slight dorsal ridge-like 

 crest ; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 

 Fore wing with the apex slightly produced and acute, the termen evenly curved 

 and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour not orange. 



a. Fore wing with the terminal area bright pink treitschcei. 



b. Fore wing with the terminal area yellowish white victorina. 



c. Fore wing with the terminal area suffused with crimson . purpurina. 

 H. Fore wing with the ground-colour orange. 



a. Fore wing with the subbasal and antemedial lines and 



the stigmata present umbra. 



b. Fore wing with the subbasal and antemedial lines and 



the stigmata absent stilla. 



4354. Pyrrhia treitschcei. 



Heliothis treitschkei, Friv. Tarsus Evkonyv. ii. p. 273, pi. 7. f. 8 (1835) ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 22o. 

 Heliothis taurica, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 368, Noct. ff. 263-4 



(1846). 



Head pale yellow, the palpi, frons, antennae, and a bar between 

 them bright pink ; thorax bright pink, the tegulae with a purplish 

 tinge ; pectus and legs pink, the tarsi yellowish tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen pale yellow tinged with brown, the terminal segments 

 pink. Fore wiug with the basal half pale yellow with large pink 

 patch on basal costal area ; antemedial line very oblique and pink 

 from costa to subcostal nervure, then brown, inwardly oblique and 

 ending at vein 1 ; reniform pink defined by deep pink, and with 

 deep pink patch above it on costa ; outer half of median area from 

 beyond and below the cell to inner margin brown ; postmedial line 

 yellow, rather diffused at costa, oblique to vein 4, where it is 

 angled, then inwardly oblique ; terminal area bright pink. Hind 

 wing brown, the inner margin whitish ; cilia pink except towards 

 tornus : the underside whitish tinged with brown, the costal area 

 suffused with pink, a faint diffused sinuous brownish band just 

 beyond middle. 



Hub. Balkan States, Bulgaria (Mrs. Nicholl) ; Turkey, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Armenia, Caucasus, Leech Coll. ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 Leech Coll., Bithynia, Taurus; Stria; W. Turkestan, Turcoraani a. 

 Exp. 30-34 millim. 



