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stout black terminal front spines ; the palpi are stouter and have 

 the terminal joint hairy ; the fore wing is less triangular in form, 

 and the hind wing shorter than in typical Heliothis. For this 

 species {incarnata) I propose the generic name of Chazaria, 



Tiie species described by Walker as H. lucilinea (Cat. Lep. Het. 

 B. M. XV. p. 17-19), from St. Domingo, is also generically distinct 

 from tlie above ; the Periphanes delphinii and Oria sanguinea (a 

 North-American species) have a very short stoutish tibia armed with 

 two terminal stout spines, this character also occurring less stoutly 

 in the European Anthcecla pulchra. A, cardui, A. cognatn, A. cora, 

 A. lynx (a North-American species), and in A. dorsilutea, the locality 

 of which is unknown. 



In Melicleptria scutosa (Europe) and M. speciosa (N. America) 

 the tibia is more slender and delicately spined than in Heliothis, the 

 tarsus also being more delicate and comparatively longer. 



In JEdophron phlehophora and Stephania puniceago the terminal 

 spines of the tibia are short, and the basal joint of the tarsus, also, 

 is laterally spined. 



In this family (Ileliothidse) should also be placed : — the American 

 genus Berrima (D. stellata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 770, and 

 D. henrietta, Grote), arran2;ed hitherto in the Hamerosidse; the 

 AnthopJiila lineata and A. divergens of Walker's Cat. xii. p. 830, 

 of unknown locality and which are quite distinct from typical 

 Anthophila ; and the Microphysa contracta (Walker, Cat. Lep. . 

 Het. xii. p. 83G), which is also generically distinct from Microphysa. 



The insect described as Chariclea taurica, and assigned to that 

 genus in European catalogues, is quite distinct from typical Chariclea 

 {Periphanes delphinii), differing from it in not possessing the tibial 

 spines, and having, moreover, very short tarsi. It should be 

 arranged with the Anthophilidse, under the generic name of Phila- 

 reta ; in the Anthophilidse should also be placed the genus Pyrrhia 

 (P. marginata and P. purpuritis), — these species agreeing better in 

 their tibial and tarsal characters thau with the Heliothidae. 



Genus Heliothis, Hiibner. 



Heliothis perigeoides, n. sp. 



Male. Fore wing pale ochreous-yellow, crossed by two subbasal 

 ochreous-brown pale-bordered zigzag lines ; a median sinuous fascia, 

 and a discal white-poiuted sinuous line, bordered by an outer 

 brownish waved fascia ; a pale-bordered orbicular and a reniform 

 spot, the latter with grey centre ; some whitish spots on the costal 

 edge, and an outer marginal row of distinct black dots : hind wing 

 ochreous-white, with an ochreous-brown marginal band enclosing 

 a central white patch. Underside ochreous-white, with dusky-brown 

 markings as in //. peliigera, but paler, and the discal fascia on 

 both wings interrupted. 



Expanse 1 to Ig inch. 



Hab. Kutch, N.W. India. In coll. F. Moore. 



Near to //. peltigera, which also occurs in Kutch, but is a much 

 smaller and differently marked insect. 



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