MICROHELIA; HELIOTHODES; EUTRICOPIS; BAPTARMA; PALADA. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 327 
209. Genus: Microlielia Hmps. 
Proboscis developed, palpi straightly porrect, below long-haired; the frons exhibits a ringwall-shaped 
appendage with a smaller coniform projection in the centre and a horny plate under it. Eyes small and reniform; 
thorax roughly haired and without scales like the abdomen, also the tibiae long-haired. Several small Xorth- 
American species Hying in the sunshine. 
M. angelica Sm. (47 c) is a small blackish-brown insect with a coppery lustre with 2 coherent small angelica. 
yellowish-white spots behind the cell and below it. Hindwing the same. California. 
M. restrictalis Sm. (47 c) is somewhat larger, and the postmedian spots are flown together into a resirietalis. 
yellowish-white band extending to the hind-margin. On the hindwing the band is narrower or may also be 
quite absent: — ab. immacula Strcl. (= ab. 1 . Hmps.). California. immacula. 
210. Genus: Heliothodes Hmps. 
Of a structure very similar to the preceding genus, but the frontal projection is a plain ring-wall without 
a central cone; the genus likewise only contains 2 small heliophile species: 
H. diminutiva Grt. (47 c). Forewing purple red, with black and grey hair, with an indistinct greyish- diminutiva 
white median band, with 2 white spots therein, and an indistinct grey subterminal line; hindwing blackish- 
brown with a coppery lustre, with a white round spot behind the cell-end and a dot behind it. — A species 
very variable in the development of the white spots: — in ab. suffusana Strd. (= ab. 2. Hmps.) the forewing suffusana. 
is black powdered with ochreous grey and without any purple red tint. — ab. macromacula Strd. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) macroma- 
has much larger white spots which are often confluent particularly on the hindwing. — ab. bifida Strd. (ab. ^ cula 
3. Hmps.) in the ground-colour resembles ab. suffusana, but the spot below the cell-end is bipartite. From 
Oregon and Colorado to California. 
H. fasciata Edw. (47 c) is very similar to the preceding species, but the anterior body and the forewing fasciata. 
are yellowish-white, prowdered with a reddish brown, the spots forming a narrow oblique band which is connected 
in the cell with whitish spots before and behind the unmarked reniform macula. Hindwing blackish-brown 
with a grey tint and spots as in the preceding species. California. 
211. Genus: Eutricopis Morr. 
Separated from the two preceding genera merely by the smooth frons. Only one small variable species: 
E. nexilis Morr. (47 c) has black forewings powdered with grey, with a purple red tint before and nexilis. 
behind the median area and at the distal margin, and with a white Y-shaped median band. Hindwing black 
powdered with grey, and with white confluent median spots. — In the form: elaborata Edio. the proximal side of elaborata. 
the Y before the reniform macula is absent. In the typical specimens from the north-west the hindwing beneath 
exhibits at the base and costal margin white powdering which is absent in Californian specimens: = f. sub- subcolorata 
colorata B. & McD. in which the costal half is purple pink. The range of the species otherwise extends from 
Canada through Washington to Colorado and California. 
212. Genus: JH»a|>tarma 
Proboscis developed, palpi obliquely erect, the last joint somewhat drooping; the frons exhibits within 
the ring-wall a coniform appendage. Eyes large, oval. Thorax clad with hah’ and scales, tuftless, abdomen 
with a tuft on the first ring. Anterior tibiae at the end without a claw. Only one species has been described: 
B. felicita Sm. (47 a). Forewing brown with 2 yellowish-white spots behind and below the cell-end, felicita. 
the latter spot larger and rectangular. Hindwing black with an extensive red disc. Beneath almost quite crimson 
with blackish margins. Utah. 
213. Genus : Palacla Sm. 
Structure similar as in the preceding genus, thorax almost without any admixture of scales, frons 
plainly rounded. Anterior tibiae at the end with 2 horny spikes, the inner one being longer. Abdomen tuftless. 
Only one small species has been described: 
