HELIOSEA. HELIOXHIS. 15 



Genus HELIOSEA. „, 



lype. 



Heliosea, Grote, Bull. BufF. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220(1875) 'pictijjeimis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique to beyond frous, fringed with hair 

 below; frons with rounded prominence, with curved corneous plate below it; 

 eyes small, reniform ; antennse of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with 

 rough hair ; fore tibiae spined, with curved claw on inner side and three claws 

 on outer ; mid and hind tibise spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex 

 produced, the termen oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked. 



The unique type is without head and fore legs, and the descrip- 

 tion is supplied from that of Mr. Grote. 



8. Heliosea pictipennis. 



Heliosea pictipennis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220 (1875); id. 

 111. Essay, 62, pi. iii. f. 32 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. 



c? • Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen black, with some 

 hair at base and the extremity yellowish white. Fore wing- 

 ochreous ; the basal area suffused with crimson to the obliquely curved 

 crimson antemedial line ; the costal area suffused with crimson to the 

 crimson postmedial line, which is slightly excurved to vein 4, then 



Fig. 7. — Heliosea ptictipennis, iS • t- 



incurved ; termen and cilia suffused with crimson. Hind wing black, 

 with white medial band expanding to base on costa and not quite 

 reaching inner margin ; cilia white at tips. Underside white ; fore 

 wing with some diffused black at base, and a diffused postmedial band 

 from vein 5 to inner margin ; hind wing with black patch at base, 

 extending on inner area to middle, the terminal area black from 

 vein 4 to tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 S type. Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus HELIOTHIS. 



Type. 



Heliothis, Oohs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 91 (1816), non descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 3, p. 215 (1826) cardui. 



Anthoecia, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 162 (1840) cognata. 



Trypana, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. x. p. 58 (1841) cardui. 



Adonisea, Grote, Bull. Buif. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220 (1875)... imlchrip)ennis. 



Canidia, Grote, Eevised Check-list, p. 36 (1890), non descr. . scissa. 



