CHLORIDEA. 



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56. Cliloridea armigera. 



Noctua armigera, Hixbn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 370 (1827) ; Dup. 



Lep. Fr. vii. p. 119, ff. 6, 7; Drace, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. i. p. 299; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 174 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222 ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 270. 

 Heliothis pulverosa, Wlk. xi. 688 (18.57). 

 Heliothis conferta, Wlk. si. 690 (1857). 

 ThalpofUla ruhrescens^, Wlk. xv. 1681 (1858). 

 Heliothis uniformis, WUgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (I860). 

 Heliothis punctigera, WUgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (1860). 

 Heliothis mnhrosus, Grote, Proc. Eut. fSoc. Phil. i. p. 219 (1863). 



Head and thorax olive-grey or pale reddish brown : abdomen 

 white, dorsally tinged with fuscous or reddish brown. Fore wing 

 olive-grey or pale reddish brown ; an indistinct double waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double antemedial line 

 angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin ; the 

 orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and outline, the former 

 round, the latter with two striae above it on costa ; an oblique 

 slightly waved median line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; a double dentate postmedial line, the teeth produced to 

 slight white points on the veins, angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, 



Fig-. 18. — Chloridca- armigera, ^ , 



(From Mollis Ind. vol. ii.) 



then oblique, the area betAveen it and the subterminal line usually 

 darker, at all events towards costa, this line slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at median nervules ; a terminal series 

 of minute black points. Hind wing white ; the veins brown ; the 

 terminal area broadly fuscous, with somewhat diffused inner edge 

 and pale subterminal patch at middle often obsolescent or absent ; 

 cilia white, with brownish line at base. Underside of fore wing 

 with the orbicular and reniform black ; both wings with blackish 

 band beyond the postmedial line except on costal area of hind wing. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with prominent angled dark brown medial 

 band diffused on outer side. — Hawaii. 



Ab. 2. rubescens. Hind wing with the ground-colour orange- 

 yellow. — Australia. 



(a) Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with rufous. 



(b) Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with dark pink. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A. throughout, Texas, 5 c? , 4 5 ? California, 

 1 § ; Mexico (Hoege), 2 c^ , Morelas (H. ff. Smith), 1 5 , Milpas 

 (Forrer), 1 S, Jalapa (TrujiUo), 2 d, 2 $, Durango (Becker), 



