38 NOCTTJIDiE. 



brown postmedialline incurved below vein -i ; terminal area brown, 

 with ochreous spots in discal fold and on each side of vein 3. 

 Underside whitish ; fore wing with black discoidal patch and curved 

 postmedial band ; hind wing with fuscous discoidal bar, sinuous 

 postmedial line incurved below vein 4, and indistinct subterminal 

 line with black spots at discal and submedian folds. 



5 . Fore wing, orbicular with blackish centime and ochreous 

 annulus defined by black. 



Hah. Panama, type t 6 in Mus. Stockholm ; Galapagos Is., type t 

 $ onca in Mus. Stockholm ; St. Joseph Is. ; ? Hawaii, Honolulu, 

 type t S inflata in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 30 millim. 



47. Chloridea hyalosticta. (Plate LV. fig. 17.) 



Heliothis hyalosticta, Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. iv. p. 507 (1896). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey irrorated with 

 dark scales. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with dark 

 scales ; antemedial and medial dark points on costa ; reniform 

 represented by a fuscous discoidal bar ; the postmedial line curved, 

 highly dentate, whitish with dark streaks on the veins on its inner 

 side and a brownish spot beyond it on costa ; a termiual series of 

 black points. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown; a 

 discoidal bar, curved postmedial line, traces of a brown siibterminal 

 band, and some black points on termen. Underside of fore wing 

 with the reniform prominent, black. 



5 . Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform blackish with pale 

 annuli defined by a dark line, the former elongate ; an obscure 

 brown band beyond the postmedial line ; the underside with the 

 orbicular linear, black. 



Hah. SiND, Karachi (Sivinhoe), 1 (S type, Bhuj (Nurse), 1 5 ; 

 Burma, Thyetmyo (Watson), 1 $ . Ea.p., d 24, "$ 28 millim. 



Sect. II. (Chloridea). Fore wing of male normal. 



A. Hind wing with large black discoidal spot. 



«. Fore wing with distinct whitish subterminal line not 



incurved at discal fold ononis. 



b. Fore wing with the subterminal line indistinct and 

 slightly incurved at discal fold. 

 a^. Fore wing with the terminal area as dark as post- 

 medial area dejcani. 



b^. Fore wing with the terminal area paler than the 

 postmedial area. 

 a/^. Hind wing with the inner edge of tei-minal dark 



area angled outwards at vein 4 dipsacca. 



b'^. Hind wing with the inner edge of terjninal dark 



area not angled outwards at vein 4 phloxiphaga. 



B. Hind wing without large black discoidal spot. 



a. Fore wing without oblique antemedial, medial, and 

 postmedial lines. 



a' . Hind wing with the basal area blackish metachrlsea. 



b^. Hind wing with the basal area pale. 



a^. Fore wing withsubterminal black pointabovetornus. 

 a^. Fore wing with prominent dark marks on costa 



above reniform stigma and at postmedial band, peltigera. 



