HELTOTHIS, 21 



apex ; hind wing with the costal area whitish except towards base, 

 conjoined to spots before and beyond the discoidal black spot and to 

 an apical patch extending to vein 2, a spot below end of cell. 



5 . Fore wing with white spot in cell before the orbicnlar 

 stigma ; a Y-shaped band on medial area not reaching costa or 

 inner margin ; hind wing with the spots larger. 



Ab, 1. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas bright 

 purple-pink, and with small whitish spots in cell of both wings 

 before middle, the reniform strongly defined. — Colorado, Bullion Mt. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 S , California, 1 5 type persimilis, 

 New Mexico, Beulah ( Cocl-ereU), 1 5 . Exj). 22 millim. 



*19. HeliotMs vaccinise. 



Melicleptria vaccinia, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Soi. vi. p. 134 (1875); Smithy 

 Cat. Noefc. N. Am. p. 289. 



Head and thorax brown ; abdomen black-brown, with segmental 

 whitish lines. Fore wing pale brown with a golden tinge ; the 

 basal area darker; antemedial line moderately curved, slightlj' 

 dentate towards inner margin ; medial shade whitish, brown 

 towards costa ; orbicular nearly obsolete ; reniform large, prominent ; 

 postmedial line whitish, bent outwards below costa, nearly straight 

 towards inner margin ; subterminal line prominently dentate at 

 middle and with four or five short black streaks from it ; cilia 

 golden brown with darker patches. Hind wing black, with medial 

 white band broadest below middle, but not reaching inner margin ; 

 a short white subterminal striga : cilia white. Underside of fore 

 wing black, reddish towards costa, and with broad creamy- 

 white medial band, a reniform subapical spot, and irregular terminal 

 band; hind wing black, with reddish-white subcostal patch, an 

 oblong crearay-white discal spot with small spot below it. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sierra ISTevada. Eccp. 18 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



20. Hellothis sueta. (Plate LV. fig. 4.) 



Heliothis suctus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 117, pi. iii. f. 10 



(1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. 

 Heliothis ccdifornicus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 149 (1873;. 



. S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black with some gre}' hair ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen with whitish hair. Fore wing black, 

 overlaid bj' grey and purplish-red scales ; a somewhat X-shaped 

 medial whitish band formed by spots before and beyond the reniform, 

 conjoined to a quadrate spot below the cell between the indistinct 

 whitish curved antemedial line and the postmedial line, which is 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved. Hind wing 

 black, with large whitish spot beyond the cell and somewhat 

 quadrate spot below its extremity ; cilia white at tips. Underside 

 of fore wing with the white band and black reniform spot very 

 prominent, the apical area suff'used with white ; hind wing with 



