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Psyche 
[March 
its unusual appearance making it easily recognized. It (the 
male moth) flies both by day and night, captures having been 
made with net in daytime and with trap-light at night. 
References : 
Phalcena Noctua dipsacea Linne, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 
tome, 1 pars 5, p. 2553. 
Heliothis dipsacea Westwood, British Moths, vol. 1, 1843, p. 
236, pi. 53, fig. 4. 
Heliothis dipsacea Meyrick, Hand Book of British Lepi- 
doptera, 1895, p. 109. 
Chloridea dipsacea Seitz, Macrolepidoptera of the World, 
vol. 1, 1907, p. 245, pi. 50 i. 
Heliothis dipsacea Scorer, Entomologist’s Log Book, 1913, p. 
98. 
Description: — Fore wings light brown, darker at inner mar- 
ginal area; dark brown bar extends across middle of wing 
blending broadly with dark area at inner margin; narrow dark 
band at outer submarginal area; dark spot on costal margin near 
apex; numerous fine black dots are scattered over the wing 
converging thickly at discal cell forming a small dark area, with 
a single row at outer margin and an irregular row across the 
limbal area. Hind wings light buff with a broad black marginal 
band in the middle of which there are two closely contiguous 
pale spots divided by vein M2, these two spots in some instances 
are merged into one bilobed spot; large black discal spot ex- 
tending nearly to costal margin ; marginal fringe whitish. Under 
side of wings whitish buff with black discal spots, two on fore wing 
and one on hind wing; irregular narrow black band extends 
across both wings in limbal area. 
Wing expanse, 30 to 35 mm. 
Described from six males taken by the author in Essex 
County, Massachusetts, May 31-June 16, 1916, 1919, 1921. 
