HELIOTHIS. 21 



apex ; hind wiug with the costal area whitish except towards base, 

 conjoined to spots before and beyond the discoidal black spot and to 

 an apical patch extending to vein 2, a spot below end of cell. 



2 . Fore wing with white spot in cell before the orbicular 

 stigma ; a Y-shaped band on medial area not reaching costa or 

 inner margin ; hind wing with the spots larger. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal and postniedial areas bright 

 purple-pink, and with small whitish spots in cell of both wings 

 before middle, the reniform strougl}- defined. — Colorado, Bullion Mt.. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 J , California, 1 § type peTsimilis, 

 New Mexico, Beulah {Coclerell), 1 $ . Exp. 22 millim. 



*19. Heliothis vaccinise. 



Meliclpptria vaccini(s, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 134 (1875); Smith,. 

 Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. 



Head and thorax brown ; abdomen black-brown, with segmental 

 whitish lines. Fore Aving pale brown with a golden tinge ; the 

 basal area darker; antemedial line moderately curved, slightly 

 dentate towards inner margin ; medial shade whitish, brown 

 towards costa ; orbicular nearly obsolete ; reniform large, prominent; 

 postmedial line whitish, bent outwards below costa, nearlj- straight 

 towards inner margin : subterminal line prominently dentate at 

 middle and with four or five short black streaks from it; cilia 

 golden brown with darker patches. Hind wing black, with medial 

 white band broadest below middle, but not reaching inner margin ; 

 a short white subterminal striga ; cilia white. Underside of fore 

 wing black, reddish towards costa, and with broad creamy- 

 white medial band, a reniform subapical spot, and irregular terminal 

 band; hind wing black, with reddish-white subcostal patch, an 

 oblong creamj'-white discal spot with small spot below it. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. Ecop. 18 millim. This- 

 species is unknown to me. 



20. Heliothis sueta. (Plate LV. fig. 4.) 



Hdiothis suctus. Grote, Bull. Buff. See. Nat. Sci. i. p. 117, pi. iii. f. 1<> 



(1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 280. 

 Heliulhi^ califorincu^, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 149 (1873). 



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

 pectus, legs, and abdomen with whitish hair. Fore wing black, 

 overlaid bj' grey and puriilish-rcd scales ; a somewhat X-shaped 

 medial whitish band formed by spots before and beyond the reniform, 

 conjoined to a quadrate spot below the cell between the indistinct 

 whitish curved antemedial line and the postmedial line, which is 

 excurved from cost a to vein 4, then strongly incirrved. Hind wing 

 black-, with large whitish spot beyond the cell and somewhat 

 quadrate spot below its extremity ; cilia white at tips. Underside 

 of lore wing with the white band and black reniform spot very 

 proiiiinent, the apical area suff'used with white ; hind wing with 



