20 NOCTCriDJE. 



tips. Underside yellowish -white ; fore wing with black streak 

 below base of cell, orbicular and reniform black, terminal area black 

 except at apex ; hind wing with black patch on basal inner area 

 conjoined to a discoidal spot and diffused patch near tornus. 



Eab. Armenia, Caucasus, 5 c? • E,vp. 26-30 millim. 



Larva. Brownish white, paler below ; head and 1st somite above 

 tinged with orange ; dorsal, subdorsal, lateral and sublateral inter- 

 rupted narrow dark lines. Food-plant, the capsules of Cephelaria 

 j^roctra. 



17. Heliothis piirpiirasceiis. 



I^odua pnrpumscens. Tauscb, Mem. Mose. 1809, p. 319, pi. 20. f. 4 ; Mill. 



Ic. iii. pi. 128. ff. 5-7; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 

 Heliothis pulchra, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 5.54, pi. v. f. 8 ; Herr. 



Schaff. Schmett. Eur. £f. 217-8. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with grey hair ; 

 patagia tinged with purple at extremity. Fore wing black overlaid 

 by purple hair ; a whitish spot at base ; a whitish Y-shaped medial 

 band enclosing the greyish reniform stigma, with some purple on it 

 at costa and inner margin ; a diffused grey subterrainal straight 

 line. Hind wing black, with \\'hite spots just beyond and below 

 €nd of cell, often conjoined ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing 

 black, the medial band extending to base on inner area, an apical 

 white patch : hind wing with medial white band, the apical half of 

 costal area black, extending on termen to vein 2. 



Hob. S.E. Russia, Sarepta {Chrisioj)h), 9 d , 3 $ , Urals, 1 $; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; Tibet, Kuku Noor. Exjj. 26 millim. 



Larva. Mill. Icon. iii. p. 247, pi. 128. ff. 5-7. 



Pale yellow, the ventral surface greyer ; head and first and last 

 somites orange ; dorsal, subdorsal, lateral and sublateral series of 

 black points. Pood-plant, the capsules of Cephelaria tartarica. 



IS. Heliothis villosa. (Plate LV. fig. 2.) 



Meliclcptria villosa, Grote, Pvoc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 531, pi. vi. f. 6 



(1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. jST. Am. p. 288. 

 Helioihif pauxillus, Grote, Bull. Buff, Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 118, pi. iii. f. 6 



(1873). 

 Heliothis persimilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 117, pi. lu. f. 11 



(1873). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black with some grey hair ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing 

 black, overlaid with grey and pale rufous scales ; traces of a pale 

 curved antemedial line with an elliptical whitish spot beyond it in 

 the cell ; a pale postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a somewhat greyer terminal baud. Hind wing 

 black-brown, with small Avhite spot in end of cell and rather larger 

 spots beyond and below its extremity ; cilia white at tips. Under- 

 side black ; fore wing with white spots before and beyond the 

 reniform, a white patch on middle of inner area, and some grey at 



