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*100. LygranthcBcia ? niibila. 



Heliothis nuhila, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 122 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noet. N. Am. p. 28-1. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with olive-green, whitish 

 below. Fore wing grey tinged with olive-green ; the antemedial 

 and postraedial lines very indistinct, especially the former ; the 

 submarginal area rather darker than the rest of wing. Hind wing 

 yellowish white ; some black scales at base ; a large black discoidal 

 spot ; a broad terminal black band with its inner edge straight ; 

 cilia white. Underside yellowish white ; fore wing with elongate 

 black basal patch not extending to costa or inner margin, a round 

 black discoidal spot, a subterminal black band not extending to 

 costa or inner margin, with some rufous between it and costa ; hind 

 wing with indistinct discoidal spot and a subterminal band, rufous 

 towards costa, black towards inner margin. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas {BoJl). Exp. 24 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



101. Lygranthcecia imperspicua. (Plate LVI. fig. 4.) 



Heliothis impersjncua, Streck. Lep. Khop. & Het. p. 122 (1876). 

 Schinia digitalis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 128(181*1) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 283. 



(5 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown, the scales of 

 thorax tipped with grey ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, 

 tinged with brown and irrorated with grey ; the basal area suffused 

 with dark brown to the obliquely curved antemedial line ; a diffused 

 dark discoidal spot ; the postmedial line excurved from costa to 

 vein 3, then incurved and bent outwards to inner margin, defined 

 by a dark band on its outer side, the outer edge of which represents 

 the nearly straight subterminal line. Hind wing ochreous white 

 irrorated witii dark brown. 



Fore tibiae with two claws and one spine on inner side and four 

 claws on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Iowa city_. 1 J , Texas, Dallas. Exp. 30 millim. 



*102. Lygranthcecia ? lora. 



Schinia lora, Streck. Lep. Ilhop. & Het. Siippl. i. p. 10 (1898). 



Head yellowish white ; thorax dull ochreous with an olive tinge ; 

 abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing with the basal area fuscous ; 

 the medial area pale ochreous, the aute- and postmedial lines in- 

 distinct, the orbicular and reniform quite obsolete ; postmedial area 

 fuscous to nearly black ; terminal area pale ochreous ; cilia iuscous 

 mixed with pale ochreous. Hind wing yellowish white, with a 

 black terminal band ; cilia white. 



Huh. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (A'o//), Eastrop. Exp. 22 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



