16 xocxtriB.ii:. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely iqjturned, the 2Qd joint fringed 

 with hair in front ; frons with rounded prominence, with curved corneous plate 

 below it; eyes small, reniform ; antenna of male minutely ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed with rough hair ; fore tibiaj short, broad, spined at sides and with 

 long curved claw on inner side and short claw, rarely three claws, on outer ; 

 naid and hind tibiie stronglj' spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex 

 produced, tlie 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 very short ; veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 strongly stalked. 



A. Hind wing blood-red celeris. 



B. Hind wing yellow, with large black discoidal spot. 



a. Fore wing deep purple grcBfiana. 



h. Fore wing black, suffused witli rufous scissa. 



C. Hind wing black, with indistinct ochreous medial band... chansi/i. 



D. Hind wing black, with prominent whitisli medial band 



or spots. 



a. Hind wing with the medial band entire. 



a^. Hind wing with the medial band reaching costa and 



inner margin cognata. 



h^. Hind wing with the medial band not i-eaching costa 



and inner margin ea7~dui. 



c^. Hind wing with the band reduced to a medial patch, pulchri'penms. 



b. Hind wing with the band divided entirely or almost 



entirely into two spots. 

 a}. Fore wing with the basal area and postmedial band 

 purple, 

 a^. Fore wing with the aiedial band almost entirely 



suffused wi th grey-green iin2}eriaUs. 



//-. Fore wing with the medial baud not suffused with 

 grey-greeu. 

 cv\ Hind wing with the costa on underside not white 



at base purjmrasccns. 



¥'. Hind wing witli the costa on underside white 



at base villosa ab. 



A\ Fore wing with the basal area and postmedial band 

 not purple. 

 a-. Fore wing with the reniform stigma ill-defined... villosa. 

 1)^. Fore wing with the reniform stigma prominently 

 defined by whitish. 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma ill-defined. 

 «*. Fore wing with whitish antemedial, post- 

 medial, and subterminal lines vaccinics. 



//. Fore wing without lines sueta. 



h^. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma prominently 



defined by whitish honesta. 



*9, Heliothis celeris. (Plate LIX. fig. 3.) 



Melicleptria celeris, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 148 (1873) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 288. 



S . Head and thorax black, clothed T\'ith olivaceous hair ; pectus 

 and legs ochreous ; abdomen black, with the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface ochreous. Fore wing deep purple, with the medial and 

 terminal areas tinged with olivaceous ; orbicular and reniform very 

 i)idistinct, the latter defined by whitish and with a more prominent 

 patch below median nervure forming a Y-shaped band ; cilia 



