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Head, thorax, and fore wing brownish ochreous, the last with a 

 greyish tinge, the costal and outer areas 

 pinkish ; the orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata represented by indistinct dark 

 patches ; an indistinct postmeclial series 

 of specks. Abdomen and hind wing 

 stew-yellow, the latter with the outer 

 area more or less broadly and completely 

 suffused with fuscous. Underside usually 

 with the reniform prominently black. 

 Hob. Sikhim; Nagas ; Karachi and throughout the Bombay and 

 Madras Presidencies ; Ceylon. Exp. 31 millim. 



Fig. 113. 

 Adisura atkinsoni, <$. 



Genus HELIOTHIS. 



Heliothis, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 91 (1816). 

 Heliocheilus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv, 1865, p. 328. 



Type, H. dipsacea, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Eyes naked and without lashes : proboscis fully developed ; 

 palpi porrect, the 2nd joint evenly clothed with long hair, the 3rd 

 short and depressed ; a short frontal tuft. Thorax and abdomen 

 without tufts ; fore tibiae with a pair of slender terminal spines ; 

 mid and hind tibia? spined. Eore wing with veins 8 and 9 some- 

 times given off from the end of the areole. 



Sect. I. {Heliothis). Males without hyaline patches on the fore 

 wing and distortion of the nervures. 



1601. Heliothis armigera, Hiibn. Samml.Eur. Schmett. Noct. ii, pi. 79, 

 fig. 370 ; C. $ S. no. 1730; Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, pi. 176, fig. 22 

 (larva) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 150, figs. 1, 1 a (larva). 



Heliothis pulverosa, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 688. 



Heliothis conferta, 'Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 690. 



Heliothis succinea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 362 ; C. fy S. no. 1738. 



Heliothis rubrescens, C. 8f S. no. 1736 {nee Wlk.). 



Ochreous with a pale brown, olive, or red-brown tinge. Eore 



Fig. 114. — Heliothis armigera, <$ . \. 



wing with indistinct double waved antemedial lines ; a dark speck 

 representing the orbicular ; an indistinct curved medial line ; the 



