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coloured border ; wings beneath with a broad border of the 

 same hue. Length of the body 5 lines ; expansion of the 

 fore wings 14 lines. Hor Tamanib. 



Fara. Heliothid^. — Gen. Heliothis, Ochs. 



20. Heliothis peltiger. Noctua peltigera, Wien. Verz, 

 89. Mount Sinai. Inhabits Europe, S. Africa, Hindostan, 

 and New Zealand. 



Fam. Acontid^. — Gen. Euphasia, Steph. 



21. Euphasia? compta. Male. — White. Thorax with a 

 few black scales ; fore tegulae bordered with fawn-colour. 

 Abdomen slightly gilded ; apical tuft fawn-colour, short, 

 quadrate. Wings elongate. Fore wings pale cinereous ; 

 a broad reddish-brown band very near the base, speckled 

 and bordered with black, and having along its outer side 

 a narrow white band ; space along the exterior border slate- 

 colour, black-speckled, widest hindward, with an undulating 

 outline and including an undulating white line ; exterior 

 border slightly rounded, rather oblique. Hind wings with a 

 deeply undulating postmedial line and a submarginal band of 

 brown speckles ; marginal line brown ; a broad chalybeous 

 black streak near the interior angle. Wings beneath without 

 markings. Length of the body 4j lines ; expansion of the 

 fore wings 12 lines. Mount Sinai. 



Gen. AcoNTiA, Ochs. 



22. Acontia partita. Male. — Pure white. Palpi slender, 

 porrect, hardly extending beyond the head, with a short 

 fringe beneath ; third joint conical, minute. Antennae smooth. 

 Thorax very stout. Abdomen extending rather beyond the 

 hind wings ; apical tuft thick, slightly compressed. Legs 

 smooth. Fore wings with the exterior half obliquely purple ; 

 this hue including an irregular interrupted undulating black 

 band and two exterior black marks, and bounded on the 

 inner side by an undulating black line. Hind wings pale 

 yellow, broadly bordered with pale fawn-colour. Wings 

 beneath whitish, with a pale fawn-coloured border. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; expansion of the fore wings 9 lines. 



tHarkeko. 



23. Acontia? ine.vacta. Female. — Whitish, stout. Head 

 pale fawn-colour and much rounded in front. Palpi porrect. 



