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N OCT U ID. IS. 



and legs clothed with white and pink hair ; abdomen black, the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface with white and pink hair. Fore wing dark 

 brown mostly suffused with purplish pink, the medial and terminal 

 ureas with opalescent blue; an indistinct inwardly oblique cupreous 

 red antemedial band connected by a streak with the cupreous red 

 medial band which arises from the dark discoidal lunule and is ex- 

 curved below vein 2 ; a white postmedial band from below costa to 

 vein 1 where it narrows to a point ; cilia dark brown at base, mixed 

 with whitish at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow, paler on costal area 

 before the black-brown terminal band which narrows to a point at 

 tornus ; cilia purplish pink and white mixed. Underside of fore 

 wing dark brown, the costal and terminal areas tinged with pink ; 

 hind wing orange with the basal half of costal area pink, the ter- 

 minal area white, narrowing to a point at tornus and tinged with 

 pink except towards costa. 



Hub. Kurdistan, Malatia, 1 £ . Exp. 26 millim. 



4972. Janthinea frivaldszci. 



Heliothis frivuldssMi, Dup. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835, p. 633, pi. 18 5. 



ff. 2, 3 ; Friv. Magyar Tud. Tarsag. Evkony v. in. p. 173, pi. 7. f. 3 (1838) ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 432, pi. 38. f. o ; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. ff. 215-16; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 

 Heliothis viola, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. 16. pi. 201. f. 4 (1836). 



Head and thorax purplish pink with opalescent blue streaks on 

 upper edge of patagia and vertex of thorax ; palpi above and lower 

 part of frons whitish ; eyes ringed with white ; antennas blackish ; 

 pectus and legs bluish white, the tibiae with some pink hair, the 

 tarsi with brownish rings ; abdomen black with some pink hair, the 



Fig. 230. — Janthinea frivaldszci, g . \. 



ventral surface white. Fore wing purplish pink suffused with 

 opalescent blue especially on costal area before the antemedial 

 line, on basal half of medial area, and on terminal area ; antemedial 

 line pink, rather diffused and nearly straight and erect ; an oblique 

 yellowish white postmedial band slightly angled inwards at lower 

 angle of cell ; traces of a diffused pink subterminal line, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia pink at base, greyish at tips. 

 Hind wing black-brown with yellowish white medial band narrowing 

 somewhat to inner margin and with slight brown discoidal lunule 

 on it ; cilia black-brown at base, white at tips. Underside of fore 

 wing black-brown, the costa whitish at base, then pink, expanding 

 into a pateh at apex, a broad white postmedial band angled inwards 



