250 ANABTO.MOBPHA. By W. Waeren. 



Subfamily Heliothidinse. 



The following subfamily is characterised by the small, generally narrowed, and, except in one 

 genus, non-hairy eyes; the insects composing it are, as a rule, of small size and remarkable generally for 

 their hairy clothing. They are here arranged in divisions corresponding in the main to the preceding 

 subfamilies. The first, containing at present only one (central Asiatic) genus, is anomalous, combining as it 

 does the characteristic differences of two subfamilies, viz. the spinose tibiae of the Euxoince and the hairy 

 eyes of the Hadeninae: the second, inheriting but one characteristic of Anartomorpha, is separated by the 

 spinose tibiae' only; the third, developing the other, by the hairy eyes; the ciliated eyes of the fourth 

 betray its relationship to certain genera of the subfamily Cucullianae; the fifth, corresponding to the 

 Melicleptriinae is distinguished by the claw-bearing fore tibiae ; and the last b} r the absence of all and each 

 of these structural characteristics, as in the largest of the subfamilies, the Amphipyrinae. Of the insects 

 now first co-arranged as a separate subfamily the majority, consistently with their hairy clothing, inhabit 

 Alpine and Arctic localities, and may plausibly be regarded as scattered remnants of archaic types, the 

 conditions of whose existence synchronised with the more rigorous climate and scantier light of an earlier 

 cosmic period. Panolis flammea, though no longer so restricted in distribution, still feeds on one of the 

 primaeval Coniferae. 



Division I. Fore tibiae without claws; mid and hind tibiae spined; eyes hairy. 



1. Genus: Anavtomoi'pha Alph. 



Tongue well-developed; palpi obliquely porrect, slender, long haired, the terminal segment long; 

 antennae of $ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia or simply ciliated: head, thorax, and pectus hairy; frons 

 with a tuft of hairs; mid and hindtibiae spined; eyes hairy. Type A. potanini Alph. 



A genus of small insects at present known only from Central Asia. 



Sect. I. Antennae of <J with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 



picieli. A. picteti Stgr. (50 a). Forewing pale dusty grey with a slight brownish tinge; the inner margin 



blackish: claviform stigma velvety black attached to the dark vertical inner line; outer half of median 

 area blackish, containing the black reniform; orbicular absent; marginal area darker; the pale submarginal 

 line preceded by black shading; hindwing white with broad black terminal border; the inner margin smoky 

 blackish; veins and cellspot black; fringe white. Turkestan. 



pretiosa. A. pretiosa Alph. (48 d). Forewing grey dusted with olive; the basal, costal, and inner areas dark 



olive brown; stigmata black brown, defined by whitish; area beyond outer line dark brown; subterminal 

 band pale, broadening towards costa; hindwing white; base and inner margin fuscous; a dark cellspot 

 joined to a dark streak from base along submedian fold; a broad black terminal border; fringe white. Tibet. 



Sect. II. Antennae of <J simply ciliated. 



ladakensis. A. iadakensis Feld. (48 d) Forewing dark fuscous mixed with black; inner line waved, blackish; the 



orbicular stigma, a spot below cell, and one on inner margin beyond it black; reniform large and black; 

 outer line oblique, slightly curved and minutely waved; subterminal line waved, mainly punctiform; hind- 

 wing j'ellowish; base and inner margin smoky fuscous. Ladak, and Lob Nor, Tibet; Kashmir. 



tnphaenop- j± triphaenopsis Oberth. (= flavescens Hmps.) (50 a). Forewing black brown, suffused with grey; inner 



and outer lines double, filled in with grey; the inner oblique to submedian fold, then vertical; the outer 

 angled at vein a; subterminal line whitish, defined internally by black, indented on each fold; claviform 

 stigma black-edged; orbicular and reniform brown at centre, slightly whitish-ringed and outlined with black, 

 the reniform angled inwards along median vein to touch orbicular; on vein 2 below cell a faint whitish 

 dentate mark; hindwing ochreous white suffused with fuscous in basal half, the terminal half fuscous, 

 broader at costa; some black and white scales on termen; fringe pure white. Becorded by Oberthirr from 

 Ta-('liicn-Lu,AV._ China ;_ Hampson's. flavescens from Tonglo, Sikkim. 



potanini. A. potanini Alph. Forewing fuscous from base to outer line which is angled on vein 5; submarginal 



line grey, acutely angled to margin between veins 2 and 4, preceded by black sagittate marks; claviform 

 stigma fuscous and very distinct; upper stigmata grey; fringe white: hindwing as in picteti. Mongolia; 

 described from a single $. 



diodonta. A. diodonta Piing. Smaller than potanini, but resembling it; forewing light ashy grey with a brown- 



ish flush, the median area darker; a black spot near base below the median; lines double, filled in with 



