22 NOCXUID^. . • 



the costal area white from near base, conjoined to a small spot in 

 cell, the large spots beyond and below its extremity, and the white, 

 ajncal area which extends down to vein 2. 



Fore tibia; with three claws on outer side. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, California, 2 S type californkus. E.vp. 

 30 millim. 



*21. Heliothis honesta. (Plate LV. fig. 3.) 



Meliclcpfria honesta, Grote, Pap. i. p. 77 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 289. 



5 . Black ; head, thorax, and abdomen with some grej'-white 

 hair; pectus, legs, extremity and Aentral surface of abdomen 

 mostly white. Fore wing irrorated with pale olive-brown scales ; 

 the cell with white patches before and beyond the orbicular, 

 confluent with the postmedial white band which is excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved in submedian fold and not 

 extending below vein 1 ; a maculate white subterminal band, angled 

 inwards in discal fold and at vein 2 and not reaching tornus ; cilia 

 chequered Avith white. Hind wing with white band just beyond 

 middle from vein 6 to just above inner margin, its inner edge 

 indented at lower angle of cell, then angled inwards below cell ; 

 cilia white. Underside of fore Aving with the basal costal area 

 white and confluent Avith the medial band, the whole terminal area 

 white ; hind wing white, with black discoidal luuule, patch on 

 middle of inner area, and two patches towards tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, Mt. Hood, Mt. Tallac, in Coll. Schaus. 

 Exji. 28 millim. 



Genus MELAPORPHYRIA. 



Type. 



Melaporphyria, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 75 (1874)... immortua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, short, clothed with rough hair ; 

 head and thorax clothed with rough hair, froiis with rounded prominence; eyes 

 small, reniform ; antenna? of male ciliated ; fore tibiw spined at sides, with long 

 slender claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; mid and hind tibia spined. 

 Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins .3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 *), 7 from upper angle. 



22. Melaporphyria immortiia. 



Mdaporphyria immortua, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. pp. 75, 220 

 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 287. 



S ' Head and thorax black-brown mixed with ochreous and rufous 

 hair ; abdomen black-brown with pale segmental lines. Fore wing 

 blackish, suffused with purple to the postmedial line except on 

 inner margin ; the veins grey to the subterminal line ; the ante- 

 medial line grey, highly cnrA'ed and very oblique toAvards costa and 

 inner margin, Avith a diffused black band on its inner side; traces 

 of a blackish discoidal mark; the postmedial line grey, oblique 



