UELIOSEA. 



-HELIOTHIS. 



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Genus HELIOSEA. 

 Heliosea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220(1875) 



Type. 

 pictipennis. 



Proboscis fully clereloped ; palpi oblique to beyoud frous, fringed with hair 

 below; frous with rouuded prominence, with curved corneous plate below it; 

 eyes small, reniform ; anteuii£e of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with 

 rough hair ; fore tibia; spiiied, with ciu'ved claw on inner side and three claws 

 on outer; mid and hind tibite spiued. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex 

 produced, the termen oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked. 



The unique type is without head and fore legs, and the descrip- 

 tion is supplied from that of Mr. Grote. 



8. Heliosea pictipennis. 



Heliosea pictipennis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220 (1875); id. 

 111. Essay, (i2, pi. iii. f. 32 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. 



cJ . Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen black, with some 

 hair at base and the extremity yellowish white. Fore wing 

 ochreous ; the basal area suffused with crimson to the obliquely curved 

 crimson antemedial line ; the costal area suft'used with crimson to the 

 crimson postmedial line, which is slightly excurved to vein 4, then 



Fig. l.—Hciiosea picfipennis, (^ . ^. 



incurved ; termen and cilia suffused with crimson. Hind wing blacky 

 with white medial band expanding to base on costa and not quite 

 reaching inner margin ; cilia white at tips. Underside white ; fore 

 Aving with some diffused black at base, and a diffused postmedial band 

 from vein 5 to inner margin ; hind wing with black patch at base, 

 extending on inner area to middle, the terminal area black from 

 vein 4 to tornus. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, 1 c? type. E.rp. 18 millim. 



Genus HELIOTHIS. 



Type. 



Heliothis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 91 (181()), non descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 3, ]x 215 (182()) carclui. 



Anthcecia, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. Ifi2 (1840) coijnata. 



Trypana, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 58 (1841) cardv.i. 



Adoniseci, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. )). 220 (1875)... pulchripennis. 



Canidia, Grote, Eevised Check-list, p. 36 (1890), noa descr. . scissa. 



