36 NOCIUIDiE. 



coidal bar ; an ochreous-red patch on termen between veins 4 and 1. 

 Underside reddish ochreous ; fore wing with the orbicular and reui- 

 form black ; both wings with obscure postmedial band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida {Doubleday), 1 $ type. Ewj). 30 millim. 



43. Chloridea fervens. (Plate LV. fig. 19.) 



Heliothis fervens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 186. 



Heliothis foveolatus, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 263 ; id. Kom. Mem. 

 Ti. p. 552, pi. 10. f. 9 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen ochreous tinged with 

 fuscous and with paler segmental lines and anal tuft. Fore wing 

 red-brown, rather redder towards inner margin ; the markings 

 obsolete except a somewhat curved postmedial dark shade. Hind 

 wing black, with ochreous postmedial band from costa to vein 1, 

 towards which it is reduced to two small spots ; cilia pale. 



$ . Head and thorax dark chestnut ; pectus and legs ochreous, 

 the tibiiB and tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen black, with rufous 

 segmental bands, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface pale 

 rufous irrorated with black. Fore wing chestnut, darkest on inner 

 and terminal areas ; the subbasal and antemedial lines almost 

 obsolete ; the orbicular and reniform represented by indistinct 

 blackish patches ; the postmedial line very indistinct, minutely 

 waved incurved below vein 3 ; an indistinct sinuous subterminal 

 line. Hind wing black, with pale ochreous spot beyond the cell ; 

 the termen irrorated with grey ; cilia tipped with white. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the disk black ; the orbicular and reniform 

 black, with ochreous-white patches before and beyond them ; hind 

 wing with the costal area rufous, the rest of medial area whitish 

 with large black discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with pale patches in and below cell, a pale 

 dentate mark on middle of termen. — W. China. 



Hal. Amxjrland, Ussuri ; Japan, Tokio (Ilaries), 1 $ type ; 

 W. China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 $ . Exj). 32 millim. 



*44. Chloridea translucens. 



Helioclieilus translucens, Fekl. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 49 (1874) ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 176. 



S . Head and thorax pale olive-brown ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally 

 tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale olive-brown ; traces of a sub- 

 basal line ; a sinuous antemedial line angled outwards on median 

 nervure ; an oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 some whitish before the indistinct dentate postmedial line, which is 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, the area between it 

 and the indistinct pale sinuous subterminal line tinged with fuscous. 

 Hind wiitg ochreous whitish ; a large black discoidal lunule ; a 

 broad terminal black band emitting fasciae to base in submedian 

 fold and on inner margin ; cilia pale. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Urni (StoliczJca), type t (^ in Coll. Eoth- 

 schild. Eivp. 28 millim. 



