256 CTEIPOLIA-; HELIOTHIS. By W. Warren. 



costa and in cell; outer line from two black costal spots, indistinctly double and dentate; subterminal 

 line composed of pale lunules inwardly defined by dark diffused, dentate marks; claviform stigma marked 

 by pale scales at its extremity; orbicular and reniform with faint pale annuli edged with brown, the cell 

 dark between and beyond them; hindwing black brown, the basal and inner marginal areas greenish grey; 

 fringe white. Amdo and Kuku Nor, Tibet. 



11. Genus: Cteipolia Stgr. 



Tongue aborted, minute; frons smooth; palpi shortly porrect, very hairy, the third segment hidden; 

 antennae of $ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia, the cilia few but very long; head, thorax, and abdomen 

 clothed with long rough hair; forewing elongate, the termen obliquely curved; veins 6, 7 of hindwing 

 long-stalked. Type Ct. sacelli Stgr. 



Sect. I. Cell of hindwing short : veins 3, 4, stalked. 



sacelli. Ct. sacelli Stgr. (50 f). Forewing pale brownish grey dusted with darker; the veins dark; lines dark 



and concise, conversely lunulate dentate, starting from costal spots and closely approximated below middle: 

 subterminal line preceded by a broad diffuse brownish-red shade; orbicular stigma black, fluke-shaped, 

 connected along fold with a black basal streak; reniform a black vertical bar; a row of thick black nearly 

 contiguous terminal spots; fringe concolorous; hindwing brownish grey, darker along termen, with a dark 

 cellspot. Occurs in W. and E. Turkestan. 



Sect. II. Cell of hindwing long; veins 3, 4 not stalked. 



acrophila. Ct. acrophila Hmps. Smaller than sacelli; forewing grey with fuscous suffusion and irro- 



ration; the lines blackish; the inner outcurved above and below median vein; the outer edged externally 

 with grey, excurved beyond cell, then lunulate dentate and incurved, and again beat outwards in sub- 

 median fold; prsesubrnarginal shade dark fuscous; orbicular and reniform stigmata small whitish spots, 

 diffusely black-edged, and almost or quite conjoined; a row of black terminal points; hindwing semihyaline 

 grey suffused with fuscous. Taken at Kardong and Hunza, Kashmir. 



Division V. Fore tibiae clawed; the tibiae spined; eyes smooth. 



12. Genus: Heliotliis Tr. 



Tongue present; frons prominentl}' rounded with a corneous plate below; antennae of <$ pubescent; 

 head, thorax, and pectus rough-haired; mid and hind tibiae spined; fore tibiae short and broad, spined at 

 the sides, with one long claw on inner side and a short claw (or 3 claws) on outer side; in the forewing the 

 cell is more than half as long as wing, in the hindwing much shorter, veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 on long stalks; 

 forewing long and narrow with prominent apex. Type Heliotliis cardui Esp. 



A genus of small, brightly coloured insects, flying in the sunshine by day. Larva with 16 feet, 

 not hairy; feeding on flowers and seeds of low growing plants in autumn. 



cardui. H. cardui Esp. (50 f). Forewing blackish overlaid with rufous scales; median area yellowish, except at 



costa, crossed by dark veins and containing the subquadrate reniform stigma; marginal area also 3-ellow, 

 crossed by dark veins ; the fringe rufous ; hindwing black with a narrow whitish median band not touching 

 inner margin; the fringe white. — Occurs in the south of Europe, from Spain to Bussia: also in Asia 

 purpurata. Minor and Armenia; the ab. purpurata Stgr. from Asia Minor has the darker areas of forewing 

 flushed with purple red, the yellow bands tinged with olive, and the veins hardly marked; the white band 

 of hindwing broader and plainer. — Larva stout, brown, dotted with pale yellow, with two rows of white 

 spots along the dorsum; venter yellow; head pale brown with black spots; feeding in autumn on flowers 

 of Picris hieracioides. 



cocjnata. H. cognata Err. (50 f). Differs from cardui in having the pale buff median area defined by pale 



lines, between which the costal and inner marginal areas are filled in with fuscous; the pale marginal area 

 narrower; the white median band of hindwing much broader. — Occurs only in the easternmost portion 

 of south Europe, Austria, Hungary, and S. Eussia; also in Asia Minor. — Larva brown grey; dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines yellowish; spiracular broad and white; spiracles black; head yellow; feeds on Prenanthes 

 purpurea and ITiondrilla juncea. 



chanzyi. H. chanzyi Oberth. (50 f). Forewing of q, like head and thorax, vinous red; a broad oblique pale 



ochreous median band, with its outer edge bent on submedian fold; terminal area pinkish white with 

 darker veins; in the $ the red tints are replaced by green, and the inner edge of median band is angled 

 outwards to lower end of cell; hindwing black with obscure ochreous median band; the fringe ochreous. Algeria. 



