18 



NOCIUIDJE. 



oclireous. Underside of fore wing black-brown, with the costa,. 

 apex, and a transverse band ochreons ; hind wing silvery grey,, 

 with very indistinct medial band. 



2 . Head and thorax tinged with greenish ; fore wing with the 

 inner edge of medial band angled outwards to lower angle of cell,, 

 the terminal area wholly green except an, apical ochreous spot. 



Hah. Algeria, Bou-Saada, type t in Coll. Oberthur, Exp. 

 20 millim. 



13. Heliothis cognata. 



Noc/m cognata, Frr. Beitr. iii. p. 134, pi. 135. f. 3 (1830) ; Hiibn. Schmett. 

 Eur. lii. f. 828 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ff. 550, 561 ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 221. 



Head and thorax black, clothed with pale olive-brown hair ;. 

 abdomen black with pale segmental rings, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface pale olive-brown. Fore wing black, overlaid with rufous 

 scales ; a curved Avhitish antemedial line ; the postmcdial line 

 slightly angled below costa, then oblique, the area between the two. 

 lines whitish tinged with brown towards costa and inner margin, 

 forming a whitish band enclosing the small dark reniform 

 stigma ; a narrow pale terminal band with dark streaks on the 

 veins, its inner edge angled inwards in discal and submedian folds. 

 Hind wing black, with white medial band reaching inner margin 

 and with irregular edges ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing^ 

 black, with the white band extending on inner area to base ; 

 reniform black ; apical area and a spot above tornus whitish 

 tinged with rufous ; hind wing with some rufous on inner side of 

 medial band at costa and on apical area. 



Hah. Austria ; Hungary, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Eastern 

 Europe ; Asia Minor, Lydia, Pontus, Exj). 22 millim. 



14. Heliothis cardui. 



Ilodua cardui, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 191. ff. 2, 3 (1786) ; Hiibn. Beitr. ii. 



pt. 4, pi. 1. f. B ; id. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 313 ; Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 311, pi. 119. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 

 Heliothis cardui, yaw purpura! a, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221 (1901). 



Fig. 8. 



-Heliothis cardui, c^. 



Head and thorax black, clothed with pale olive-brown hair ; 

 abdomen black with pale segmental lines, the anal ttift and ventral 

 surface pale olive-brown. Fore wing black overlaid with rufous 



