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57. Chloridea assulta. (Plate LV. fig. 22.) 



HcUofkis assulta, Giien. Noct. ii. -p. 178 (1852). 



Hcliothis tempcrafa, Wlk. xi. G89 (1857); Swiuh. Oat. Het. Mas. Oxoa. ii. 



p. 591. 

 HcliotJiis seintmta, Wlk. xi. fi91 (1857) ; Semp. Schmett. Phil. ii. pi. Ix. f. 1. 

 Hcliothis succinea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 362. 



Head and thorax orange tiuged with red-browu ; fore tibiae brovrn 

 above ; abdomen orange. Fore wing orange tinged with red- 

 brown ; the veins rufous ; a double curved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; the aatemedial line double, strongly waved, the 

 inner line indistinct ; orbicular and reniform with dark centres and 

 brown outline, the former round ; the medial line oblique from costa 

 to median nervure, where it is angled, then incurved ; the post- 

 medial line double, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold, incurved below vein 4, and with its inner line minutely 

 waved and slightly angled outwards at vein 1, the area beyond it 

 brownish to the subterminal line, which is angled outwards at 

 vein 7, dentate inwards to the postmedial line at vein 5 and out- 

 wards nearly to termen on veins 4, 3, 2 ; cilia rufous. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow; the terminal area broadly black with somewhat 

 sinuous inner edge, with postmedial line just before it between 

 veins (i and 2. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular and 

 reniform black : both wings with blackish band beyond the post- 

 medial line, except on inner area of fore wing and costal area of 

 hind wing. 



Bal). W. Africa, Congo (C«nw), 1 $ : J afaih, Yokohama (Joiias, 

 Fnjer), 3 $ ; Corea, Gensan {Leech), 2 c5" ; E. Chixa, Shanghai, 

 1 $, Ichang (Pratt), 1 o , 2 $ ; Formosa {Hohson), 2 S : N-W. 

 Himalayas, Kulu, Sultanpur (6^. Youmj), 2 5, Allahabad, 1 d* .. 

 1 2 ; Bhutax {Dudgeon), 1 6 '- Bombay (Swinhoe), 1 d" , 1 $ type 

 succinea ; Ceylon {Pole), 3 $ ; Bfema, Hsipaw {De Niceville), 1 2 ; 

 Java {Horsjield), 1 5 : Queenslaxd, Eockhampton; Samoa, 2 J 

 type sepo-aia ; Tahiti {J. J. Wallcer), 1 J . Exj^i. 24-36 millim. 

 Type t in Mus. Paris. 



Larva. Hmpsu. 111. Het. B. M. is. p. 92, pi. 176. f. 22. 



Palo greyish green, the dorsal area browner ; a broad yellowish 

 lateral stripe from 8th to 12th somite ; a minute prominent subdorsal 

 black spot on each somite, two spots on the lateral stripe and one 

 below it ; head pale red. Food-plant, P/ijfsalis peruviana. 



58. Chloridea xantliiata. (Plate LV. fig. 23.) 

 Hcliothis xanthiata, Wlk. xxxiii. 770 (1865). 



2 . Vertex of head and front of thorax olive-yellow ; palpi, 

 frons, and hinder part of thorax rufous ; pectus and legs yellowish, 

 the tibiae and tarsi brown tinged with pink ; abdomen ochreous 

 Avhite, dorsally tinged with fuscous and towards extremity with 

 pink. Fore wing olive-yellow ; the inner margin fuscous suS'used 

 with rufous and with laifou.s above it ; a waved rufous subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; the antemcdial line cxcurved below 



