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scales ; a whitish spot in end of cell conjoined below cell to a band 

 from costa beyond middle and forming a Y-shaped band with arms on 

 each side of the reniform : a pale terminal band traversed by dark 

 streaks on the veins, its inner edge angled inwards in discal and 

 submedian folds. Hind -nHng black, with white medial band with 

 waved edges not reaching inner margin ; cilia white. Underside 

 of fore wing black, with the white band produced to base on inner 

 area, the apical area ochreous white ; hind wing with the costal 

 area ochreous white. 



Ab. 1. purpurata. Eore wing more or less suffused with purple. 



Hah. France ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland ; Spain ; 

 Italy ; Hungary, Frey Coll. ; Eastern Europe ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus. E.vp. 22 millim. 



15. Heliothis pulchripennis. (Plate LV. fig. 1.) 



Melicleptria pulchripennis, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 241 

 (1874); id. 111. Essay, 62, pi. iii. f. 31; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 288. 



Aclonisea laiiguida, H. Edw. Pap. i. p. 20 (1881). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black with grey hair, the head and 

 thorax more or less strongly tinged with purplish crimson ; legs 

 with pink hair. Fore wing grey-brown, more or less completely 

 suffused with purplish crimson ; a curved silvery-blue antemedial 

 line ; a similar postmedial line slightly excurved to vein 4, then 

 slightly incurved, the area between the lines not suffused with 

 crimson except towards costa and inner margin and on the reniform 

 stigma, which often has an ochreous white spot before it and large 

 patch beyond it ; a terminal band of the ground-colour with sinuous 

 inner edges, often more or less suffused with crimson. Hind wing 

 black ; the costal area ochreous white to near apex, and a some- 

 what wedge-shaped patch beyond the cell between veins 6 and 2. 

 Underside of both wings greenish grey, the basal area and discoidal 

 spot black, the costal and terminal areas crimson. 



Ab. 1. lam/aida. The crimson suffusion much reduced. 



Bah. U.S.A., Colorado, California, 6 c? , 1 $ , Grote Coll. Ea-p. 

 24-28 millim. 



10. Heliothis imperialis. 



HcHiiikis imperialis. Stand. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 129 (1871); id. Eoui. Mem. ii 

 p. 69, pi. 4. f. 4 rv, c ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with grey-green 

 hair ; tips of tegulas, meso- and metathorax deep purple ; pectus 

 and logs white. Fore wing black ; the basal area deep purple ; a 

 grey-green medial band slightly angled outwards below costa, then 

 constricted, and with a small white spot in the cell on its inner 

 edge ; the subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 aud 

 bent outwards to tornus, defined by the area beyond it being grey- 

 green often tinged with purple. Hind wing black : white spots 

 just beyond and below end of cell, often conjoined ; cilia white at 



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