696 CATALOGUE OF 



articulus 3us cylindricus, 2i dimidio longior. Antennae simplices, 

 corporis dimidio multo longiores. Abdomen alas posticas non su- 

 perans. Pedes validi ; tibia? posticae calcaribus longis. Ala3 anticae 

 apud costam recta?, apice acutae, margine exteriore perobliquo. 



Janthinea, Guen. Noct. ii. 188. 

 Heliothis, p., Boisd. 

 Anthcecia, p., Duponch. 



Size small. Body pilose, moderately stout. Proboscis mode- 

 rately long. Palpi pilose, obliquely ascending, rather long ; tbird 

 joint cylindrical, more than half the length of the second. Antennae 

 simple, much more than half the length of the body. Abdomen not 

 extending beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; hind tibia? with 

 four long spurs. Fore wings straight in front, acute at the lips, 

 very oblique along the exterior border. 



This genus has some affinities with the Pyralites. 



1. Janthinea Friwaldszkii. 



Cinerea ; abdomen nigrum ; alee fascia obliqua ciliisque albis ; 

 anticae cyanea fasciis nigris ; postica nigra. 



Heliothis Friwaldszkii, Treits. ; Duponch. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iv. 



633, pi. 18, B, f. 2, 3. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 162, 1303. Herr.- 



Schceff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pi. 43, f. 215, 216. 

 Noctua Viola, Frey. Beit. iii. pi. 201, f. 4. 

 Janthinea Friwaldszkii, Guen. Noct. ii. 188, 949. 



Mount Balkan, Turkey. 



a. Europe. From Dr. Frivaldsky's collection. 



Genus 12. ANARTA. 



Corpus pilosum, sat validum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. 

 Palpi porrecti, plus minusve pilosi, caput paullo superantes; arti- 

 culus 3us conicus, minimus. Antennae simplices, corporis dimidio 

 longiores. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes validi ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor mediocriter longis. Ala? anticae 

 mediocriter lata?, apud costam rectae, apice rotundatae, margine ex- 

 teriore subobliquo. 



Anarta, Sympistis, Acolasis, p., et Odice, p., H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 



256,257,261. 

 Anarta, Ochs. ; Treits.; Steph.; Boisd.; Guen.; Herr.-Schceff. 



