176 noctuid^;. 



costa to vein 1 h ; an anternedial irregularly waved line ; the orbi- 

 cular and reniform stigmata outlined with black aud placed on a 

 whitish patch ; a black dentate mark below the cell ; a postmedial 

 line excurved from costa to vein 3, then oblique and waved to inner 

 margin, the area between it and a series of submarginal blackish 

 lunules darker ; a series of small marginal black lunules. Hind 

 wing suffused with reddish ochreous ; a large black cell-spot with 

 a whitish patch beyond it ; a black postmedial line ; a broad black 

 marginal band usually with a pale patch at the centre of margin. 

 Underside paler, the orbicular and reniform stigmata deep 

 black. 



The typical European race is much greyer and whiter than the 

 Eastern race. 



Larva green, with subdorsal and sublateral series of black specks 

 and yellow and black dorsal and lateral lines. 



Bab. Europe ; China ; N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Sect. II. (HeZiochilus). Males with large hyaline spaces on the 

 fore wing below the costa and in celi, with the wing-membrane 

 ridged ; the costal nervure and veins 7 to 10 much curved. 



*1605. Heliothis translucens, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108, fig. 49; C. $ S. 

 no. 1757. 



S • Pale brown. Eore wing crossed by ante- and postmedial 

 curved and waved lines, the latter with some white beyond it, 

 followed by a series of white specks with some dark suffusion 

 beyond them. Hind wing whitish, with a large black patch at end 

 of cell; a broad submarginal black band sending fascise to the 

 base in interno-median interspace and on inner margin. 



Closely allied and possibly identical with H. inflates, WUgr., 

 from N. America and Hawaii. 



Hab. Urni, N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus CHARICLEA. 



Chariclea, Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 76 (1825). 

 Curubasa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 366. 

 Pradatta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 364. 

 Dorika, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 363. 

 Masalia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 364. 

 Sophaga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 362. 



Type, C. delpliinil, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Abyssinia ; throughout India, Burma, and 

 Ceylon; Australia. 



Differs from Heliothis in the pair of spines on the fore tibia 

 being stout and more crooked, the inner very long ; the mid and 

 hind tibiae not spined. Eore wing with the apex more or less 

 acute. 



