464 noctuid.e. 



Fore wing black-brown with a cupreous tinge ; a round yellowish-. 

 white spot beyond the cell and a bar-shaped spot from lower angle 

 of cell to vein 1 ; a whitish point on costa at apex ; cilia whitish 

 at tips. Hind wing black-brown with a cupreous tinge ; a round 

 yellowish-white spot beyond the cell and a smaller spot below it 

 in submedian fold ; cilia whitish at tips. Underside of both wings 

 slightly irrorated with grey ; fore wing with the spots whiter 

 and slightly confluent; hind wing with white streak on basal half 

 of costa. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Los Angeles Co., Mendocino Co., Dry 

 Creek ( Walsingham), 1 $ , 1 § . Exp. 14 millim. 



*4947. Microhelia restrictalis. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 28.) 



Hriiodex restrictalis, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat, Mus. xxii. p. 485 (1900); 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 193. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with some 

 yellow; palpi yellow in front; antennas yellow at base; head 

 with yellow bars behind eyes; legs yellowish fringed with rufous 

 hair. Fore wing black-brown suffused with rufous ; a broad 

 yellowish-white band from lower angle of cell to inner margin 

 confluent with an elliptical patch beyond the cell extending to 

 just below costa. Hind wing black-brown with a rufous gloss ; 

 a yellowish-white spot beyond the cell with a narrow band from 

 it to vein 1. Underside of fore wing with the spot beyond the 

 cell separate from the medial band ; hind wing with the spot 

 beyond the cell only. 



Ah. 1. Hind wing immaculate. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Butte Co. (Coquittet), in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. IS millim. 



Genus HELX0TH0DES, nov. 



Type. H. diminutiva. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extending as far as 

 the frontal prominence and Cringed with long hair below, the 3rd moderate; 

 Irons with trioleate prominence with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes small, renifonn ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with long hair 

 only and without crests ; tibiae fringed with longhair ; abdomen sparsely clothed 

 with long hair and without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, 

 the termen obliquely curved and not creuuJate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; ti from upper angle ; 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 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing blackish suffused with purplish pink or greyish 



ochreous diminutiva. 



B. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with rufous fasciata. 



