18 



,N0C1UID^, 



oelireous. Underside of fore wing black-brown, with the costa,. 

 apex, and a transverse band ochreous ; hind wing silvery grey,, 

 with very indistinct medial band. 



2 . Head and thorax tinged with greenish ; fore wing with the 

 inner edge of medial band angled outwards to lower angle of cell,, 

 the terminal area wholly green except an apical ochreous spot. 



Bab. Algeria, Eou-Sciada, type t in Coll. Oberthur. Exp.. 

 20 millim. 



13. Heliothis cognata. 



Noctua cognata, Fit. Beitr. iii. p. 134, pi. 135. f. 3 (1830) ; Hiibn. Schmett.. 

 Eur. iii. f. 828 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ff. 550, 561 ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 221. 



Head and thorax black, clothed with pale olive-brown hair ;. 

 abdomen black with pale segmental rings, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface pale olive-brown. Pore wing black, overlaid with rufous 

 scales ; a curved whitish antemedial line ; the postmedial line 

 slightly angled below costa, then oblique, the area between the two 

 lines whitish tinged with brown towards costa and inner margin, 

 forming a whitish band enclosing the small dark reniform 

 stigma ; a narrow pale terminal band with dark streaks on the- 

 veins, its inner edge angled inwards in discal and submedian folds. 

 Hind wing black, with white medial band reaching inner margin 

 and with irregular edges ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing 

 black, with the white band extending on inner area to base ; 

 reniform black ; apical area and a spot above tornus whitish 

 tinged with rufous ; hind wing with some rufous on inner side of 

 medial band at costa and on apical area. 



Hah. AtrsTEiA ; Hungary, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Easteen 

 Europe ; Asia Minor, Lydia, Pontus. Exp. 22 millim. 



14. Heliothis cardiii. 



Noctua cardui, Esp. Sclmiett. ir. pi. 191. ff. 2, 3 (1786) ; Hiibn. Eeitr. ii. 



pt. 4, pi. 1. f. B : id. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 313 ; Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 311, pi. 119. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 

 Heliothis carchii, yar. pm-jnirafa. Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221 (1901). 



Fig. 8. — Heliothis cardui, S' '• 



Head and thorax black, clothed with pale olive-brown hair; 

 abdomen black with pale segmental lines, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface pale olive-brown. Pore wing black overlaid with rufous 



