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NOCTUID.E. 



*6. Heliophana amaryllis. (Plate LIX. fig. 1.) 



Hdiophana amari/Uis, Smith, Tmus. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 130 (1S91) • 

 id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with sparse pale 

 yellowish hair. Fore wing dirty greyish brown, the medial area 

 dirty yellowish white ; sxibbasal line whitish defined by black ; 

 antemedial line whitish, defined ou inner side by black, on outer by 

 a grey shade, slightly incurved in cell and angled outwards ou 

 median nervure : orbicular and reuiform black, the former round, 

 touching the antemedial line, the latter large ; a slight medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line whitish, 

 defined on inner side by a grey-brown line, on outer by the daik 

 terminal area, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved; subterminal line whitish, angled inwards below costa and 

 in discal and submedian folds, excurved above and below middle ; 

 veins of terminal area and cilia streaked with whitish. Hind wing 

 black, with whitish medial band almost divided at lower angle of 

 cell by the large black discoidal spot ; cilia whitish at tips. Under- 

 side of fore wing white with black fascia below base of cell, large 

 black orbicular, reniform, and subai)ical spots, an irregular black 

 terminal band ; hind wing with the medial band broader than above. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Colton. Exp. 20 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me : figured from a photograph from type in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



7. Heliophaua mitis. 



Melicleptria mitis, Gi-ote, Bull. BuiF. Soc. Xat. Sci. i. 



(1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 29U. 

 Heliophana obliquata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 130 (1891). 



p. IIG, pi. 3. L 7 



d . Head and thorax fulvous yellow; abdomen black, with fulvous 

 segmental lines and the extremity fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, 

 with rufous markings irrorated with black ; a diffused baud from 



Fig. 6. — Heliophana mitis, J. \. 



costa beyond middle to base of inner margin ; an obliquely curved 

 band from costa before apex to middle of inner margin ; a terminal 

 line. Hind wing black-brown, with the cilia pale yellow. Under- 

 side of both Avings fuscous black, the costal and apical areas 

 yellowish. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 d' type, Mississippi. Ea^y. 20 millim. 



