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NOCTUIDJE. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing brownish ochreous, the last with a 

 greyish tinge, the costal and outer areas 

 pinkish ; the orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata represented by indistinct dark 

 patches ; an indistinct postmedial series 

 of specks. Abdomen and hind wing 

 straw-yellow, the latter with the outer 

 113 area more or less broadly and completely 



Adisura atkinaom, tf. \. suffused with fuscous. Underside usually 



with the reniform prominently black. 

 Hob. Sikhim ; !Nagas ; Karachi and throughout the Bor 



Madras Presidencies ; Ceylon. Exp. 31 millim. 



Bombay and 



Genus HELIOTHIS. 



Heliothis, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 91 (1816). 

 Heliocheilus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, 1865, p. 328. 



Type, H. dipsacea. Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Eyes naked and without lashes : proboscis fully developed : 

 palpi porrect, the 2nd joint evenly clothed with long hair, the 3rd 

 short and depressed ; a short frontal tuft. Thorax and abdomen 

 without tufts ; fore tibia? with a pair of slender terminal spines ; 

 mid and hind tibia? spined. Eore wing with veins 8 and 9 some- 

 times given off from the end of the areole. 



SECT. I. (Hcliotfiif). Males without hyaline patches on the fore 

 wing and distortion of the nervures. 



1601. Heliothis armigera, Hiiln. Samml.Eur. Schmett. Nod. ii, pi. 79, 

 fig. 370 ; C.$S. no. 1730; Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, pi. 170, tig. 22 

 (larva) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 150, figs. 1, 1 a (larva). 

 Heliothis pulverosa, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 688. 

 Heliothis conferta, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 690. 



Heliothis succinea, Moore. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 362 ; C. 8? S. no. 1738. 

 Heliothis rubrescens, C. fy S. no. 1736 (nee Wlk.). 



Ochreous witb a pale brown, olive, or red-brown tinge. Fore 



Fig. 114. Heliothis armigera, $ . {. 



wing with indistinct double waved antemedial lines ; a dark speck 

 representing the orbicular ; an indistinct curved medial line ; the 



