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reniform indistinct ; postmedial and submarginal waved lines, the 

 space between them somewhat darker and with a series of pale or 

 dark specks on the nervules ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hind wing white ; the veins fuscous ; a broad blackish outer border 

 usually with a pale submarginal central patch. Underside of 

 fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata conspicuously 

 black ; a broad blackish band beyond the postmedial line ; the apices 

 of both wings and outer area of fore wing pinkish. 



Larva. Dorsal area pale brown ; a lateral whitish band ; ventral 

 area pale green ; each segment with some black specks ; head red- 

 brown. Or green with a dark dorsal and two yellow lateral lines ; 

 the thoracic somites speckled brown and black, 5th to lOth somites 

 with lateral brown blotches, anal somite with an irregular black 

 dorsal mark. Feeds on rose-buds. 



Hob. Universally distributed. Exp. 31-41 millim. 



1602. Heliothis peltigera, Schiff. Wien. Verz. 89, 2 ; C. $ S. no. 1734 ; 



Boisd. Chen. Helioth. pi. ii, fig. 1 (larva). 

 Noctua barbara, Fabr. JEnt. Syst. iii, 2, p. Ill, no. 334. 

 Noctua florentina, Esp. Schmett. iv, pi. 135, fig. 2. 

 Noctua scutigera, Borhh. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 93, no. 37. 

 Noctua straminea, Donov. Brit. Ins. ii, pi. 61. 

 Phalasna alphea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 250 f. 

 Phalsena ckarmione, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. y, p. 162 ; pi. 36, 



fig. 10. 



Differs from armigera in being always ochreous. Pore wing 

 with reddish-brown patches on the costa, one small and antemedial, 

 one above the reniform which is prominent and with grey centre, 

 the other at the postmedial band. Underside with the reniform 

 prominent and black, but the orbicular obsolete. 



Larva bright green, with darker green and fuscous short streaks 

 and blotches aud white lateral line. 



Bah. Europe ; Teneriffe : S. Africa ; Persia ; N.W. India, as 

 far south as Poona ; New Zealand. Exp. 40 millim. 



1603. Heliothis nubigera, Herr.-Schaffer, Eur. Schmett. ii, p. 366. 

 Heliothis perio-eoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 361 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1735. 



Differs from armigera in having the submarginal fuscous band 

 of fore wing more prominent, its outer edge deeply indented 

 between veins 5 and 6 ; the marginal series of black specks pro- 

 minent ; the underside much whiter. 



Hah. Europe ; Syria ; Somaliland ; Dalhousie ; Cutch. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1604. Heliothis SCTltosa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. 89, 1 ; Esp. Schmett. Eur. 



iv. pi. 108, figs. 1, 2; C. $ S. no. 1737; Boisd. Chen. Helioth. pi. i, 

 figs. 1, 2 (larva,). 



Reddish brown. Pore wing with a subbasal black line from 



