16 NOCXUID.P.. 



Proboscis I'ully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair in front; frons with rounded prominence, with curved corneous plate 

 below it; eyes small, reniform ; antennte of male minutely ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed with i-ough hair ; fore tibia; short, broad, spined at sides and with 

 long curved claw on inner side and short claw, rarely three claws, on outer ; 

 mid and hind tibia; strongly spined. 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 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell very short ; veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 strongly stalked. 



A. Hind wing blood-red cclcris. 



B. Hind wing yellow, with large black discoidal spot. 



(I. Fore wing deep purple grcefiana. 



h. Fore wing bl.ick, suffused with rufous scissa. 



C. Hind wing black, witli indistinct ochreous medial band... chan><iji. 



D. Hind wing black, with prominent whitish medial band 



or spots. 

 a. Hind wing with the medial band entire. 



o}. Hind wing with the medial band i-eaching costa and 



i nner margin cognata. 



//. Hind wing with the medial band not reacliing costa 



and hiner margin cardui. 



c^. Hind wing with the band reduced to a medial patch, pidchrlpennis. 

 h. Hind wing with the band divided entirely or almost 

 entirely into two spots. 

 ct}. Fore wing with the basal area and postmedial band 

 purple, 

 f?^. Fore wing with the medial band almost entirely 



suffused with grey-gi-een impcrialis. 



Ir. Fore wing with the medial band not suffused with 

 grey-green. 

 a^. Hind wing with the costa on underside not white 



at base pnrpurasccns. 



h^. Hind wing with the costa on underside white 



at base villosa ab. 



h^ . Fore wing with the basal area and postmedial band 

 not purple, 

 ft-. Fore wing with the reniform stigma ill-defined... villosa. 

 h'^. Fore wing with the reniform stigma prominently 

 defined by whitish. 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma ill-defined. 

 (7*. Fore wing with whitish antemedial, post- 

 medial, and subterminal lines I'acciiiice. 



//. Fore wing without lines mcta. 



h'\ Fore wing with the orbicular stigma prominently 



defined by whitish honesta. 



*9. Heliothis celeris. (Plate LIX. fig. 3.) 



McUclcplria cckris, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Kat. Sci. i. p. 148 (1873) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 288. 



S . Head and thorax black, clothed with olivaceous hair ; pectus 

 and legs ochreous ; abdomen black, with the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface ochreous. Fore Aving deep purple, with the medial and 

 terminal areas tinged with olivaceous ; orbicular and reniform very 

 indistinct, the latter defined by whitish and with a more prominent 

 patch below median nervure forming a Y-shaped band ; cilia 



