EEIIOTHODES. 4G5 



4948. Heliothodes diminutiva. 



Ilel'mthix tliminutivns, Grote, Bull, Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 148 (ls7u; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 291. 



Head and thorax greyish fuscous mixed with brownish-oehreous 

 hair; antennae with slight whitish rings; palpi, pectus, legs, ami 

 ventral surface of abdomen mostly white, the mid tibiae with some 

 pink hair, the tarsi with slight, brownish rings, the abdomen black- 

 brown above with some greyish hair. Fore wing purplish pink 

 with some black and greyish hair ; the base of inner margin 

 whitish ; an ill-defined grey-white medial band from costa to vein 1 

 with whitish spots on it at discal and submedian folds, erect to 

 discal fold, then oblique; an indistinct diffused greyish subterminal 

 line; cilia brown at base, white at tips. Hind wing black-brown 

 with a cupreous tinge; a round white spot beyond end of cell and 

 a point in submedian fold below end of cell ; cilia brown at base, 

 white at tips. Underside of fore wing black with the inner area 

 white, an antemedial white spot in cell, bar from lower angle of 



Fig. 224. — Heliothodes diminutiva, J. §■ 



cell to vein 1, another bar beyond the cell and apical patch ; hind 

 wing with the costal edge white expanding into a spot at middle 

 and apical patch extending to vein 5, a round spot beyond end of 

 cell and point in submedian fold below end of cell. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the whitish spots of medial band much 

 larger and with a point before the reniform ; hind wing with the 

 splits larger and often confluent. 



Ab. 2. Similar but fore wing black suffused with greyish 

 ochreous and without any pink tinge. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing black slightly irrorated with grey, the spot 

 below end of cell bifid. 



J/fib. U.S.A., Oregon, 1 <5 , Colorado, Nevada, Verdi, 1 3 , 1 $ , 

 California, 4 <? , 7 2 type, Knight Valley, 1 d, 3 $, Placer Co., 

 1 S , 2 $, Napa Co., 1 S, Mendocino Co. ( Wafoingham), 12 j , 

 7 2 • Ex P- 20-24 millim. 



4949. Heliothodes fasciata. (Plate CXLV1. fig. 29.) 



Melicleptria fasciata, 11. Edw.Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. ri. p. KM (1875): Smith, 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 246, pi. 8. f. 63; id. Oat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 291. 



Head and thorax yellowish white tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 blackish at tips ; abdomen blackish tinged with grey, the anal tul't 



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