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NOCTTJID^. 



latter with the centre greyish and a brown patcli above it on costa ; 

 an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line dentate, with whitish points at extremities of 

 teeth, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, 

 and with a red-brown band on its outer edge defining the subterminal 

 line, which is angled outwards at vein 7, dentate inwards to the post- 

 medial line above vein 5 and incurved below vein 3 : a terminal 

 series of black points and more prominent spot above tornus. Hind 

 wing white ; the veins brown ; the terminal area brown, with diffused 

 inner edge and pale subterminal patch at middle ; cilia white, with 

 brownish line at base. Underside white ; fore wing with the reni- 

 form black ; both wings with brownish band beyond the postmedial 

 line. 



Hob. Spain ; Canaries ; Algiers {Mrs. Niclioll), 1 $ ; C. IIussia,. 

 Krasnow (C/jr/siojj/i), 1 $; Armenia; Asia Minor, Lydia ; Sxria, 

 Beyrout (Leden'v), 1 cj" , 1 2 ; Somaliland (Yerhnnj'), 1 J ; N.W. 

 Himalayas, Dalhousie (Harford), 1 P ; Kuxch, 2 c5 , type ^m- 

 gcoides. Eccp. 30-40 millira. 



Larva. Mill. Ana. Soc. Linn. Lyons, xviii. p. 35, pi. 104. £f. 9, 10. 



Reddish brown, with slight dark dorsal line ; subdorsal band 

 alternately black and white except on 1st somite ; a diffused brown 

 sublateral band. 



55. Chloridea scutuligera. (Plate LV. fig. 20.) 



Heliothis scutuligera, Giien. Noct. ii. p. 180 (1852). 

 Heliothis errans, Wlk. xsxiii. 7G9 (1865). 



Head and thorax ochreous, more or less strongly tinged Avith. 

 olive-brown ; pectus and legs paler ; abdomen ochreous, tinged 

 with orange towards extremity, the ventral surface pale with dark 

 irroration. Fore wing pale ochreous, suffused with olive-brown 

 except in and beyond end of cell ; the costa brown ; a brown streak 

 below base of cell ; the subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete ; the 

 orbicular represented by a dark point ; the reniform a black lunule 

 with greyish centre, its lower angle produced, its upper edge usually 

 connected with the costa by dark suffusion ; the postmedial line 

 indistinct, dentate, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, and usually 

 with a series of prominent white points on its outer edge, and with 

 the area beyond it brown to the pale subterminal line, which is 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing ochreous yellow, more or less 

 tinged with rufous ; a dark discoidal luuule usually present ; a 

 broad black terminal band with dentate ochreous patch at middle. 

 Underside of fore wing with prominent black reniform ; both wings 

 with dark postmedial band, on hind wing angled outwards to termen 

 above •.i.nd below middle. 



Hah. Namaqu ALAND, O'oklcp (Lirjhtfoot), 1 c? ; jNTatal, Durban 

 (Leigli), 1 $ ; Bastjtoland, Slotsekua, 3 cf , 1 $ , Maseru, 3 S 

 (CrawsJiay) ; C. Colony, Knysna (Trimen), 2 c? , 1 $ type errans^ 

 Annshaw (Miss P. Barrett), 1 9 . Exp. 30 millim. 



