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HELIOLONCHE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
cansa. 
groteana. 
modestella. 
anxia. 
basifugens. 
sexpuncta- 
ta. 
modicella. 
Indiana. 
dysseteta. 
P. cansa 8m. (47 f). Fore wing lustrous grey with white antemedian and postmedian hands and very 
small black maculae; behind the whitish undulate line which is proximally scaled brown there is at the apex 
a golden brown spot. Hindwing brownish-grey with a faded whitish median band. Kansas. 
P. groteana Dyar (47 f) has quite black hindwings; the forewing is greyish-black, in the median 
area darker with distinct grey transverse lines, the maculae surrounded with white. Arizona. 
P. modestella B. <£,- McD. (47 f) is similar to groteana ; but smaller and darker coloured, almost the 
whole forewing being blackish-brown without grey powdering, all the markings being extinct excepting the 
posterior transverse line which is distally, particularly above the hind-margin, broadly bordered with white. 
Fringes not speckled. California. 
P. anxia Sm. (47 g) is neither dissimilar to groteana, but discernible by a whitish median band of 
the hindwing exhibiting more or less the shape of two spots. Forewing lighter, greyer, more intensely marked, 
particularly conspicuous by an undulate line being twice angular almost to the margin and being proximad 
broadly shaded with dark; the fringes are very distinctly speckled. New Mexico. 
P. basifugens Dyar is ochreous-grey on the anterior body and the base of the wing, otherwise black 
with ochreous-grey fringes; the maculae are marked by light powdering like the finely dentate postmedian line, 
behind it the wing is somewhat less deep black; undulate line light, dentate. Hindwing yellowish-white with 
a broad dark margin. Texas. 
P. sexpunctata B. & McD. (47 g) has dull black forewings with 3 jet-black transverse lines, a 
white, somewhat brown-centred reniform macula with a whitish costal-marginal patch before it, and a feeble 
white undulate line. Hindwing black with 2 large round white spots. California, where the insect flies in the 
hottest sunshine around bushes of Apocynum. 
Subfamily: Heliothinae. 
This small, well defined group we range here according to the disposition of the work, although its 
right place would have been with the Agrotinae of which they form a well characterized division easily recogni¬ 
sable by the shape, colour, and marking. They are mostly bright-coloured, predominantly white and yellow, 
often also with a pink tint, belonging to the diurnal members of the Noctuids, swarming either in the sunshine 
and drinking from blossoms, or at least representing very fugitive insects that are easily scared up. In then- 
external structure they entirely correspond with the Agrotidae, particularly exhibiting the same spined middle 
and hind tibiae, and all the genera excepting Copablepharon also exhibit at the end of the anterior tibia one 
or several mostly very strong bent horny stings, or several claw-like spines; most of the genera besides show 
on the frons appendages or horny plates. A small division is also here ,,anartokT‘, i. e. the eyes are small 
and bean-shaped or reniform, the body being chiefly covered with hair; the latter form the most fugitive and 
heliophile representatives. Only of few species the larvae are known, exhibiting mostly strong tubercles provided 
with a hah-, and chiefly living on blossoms and being in accordance to then- colour often coloured pink or violet. 
1. Genus: Heliolouche Grt. 
Proboscis developed, the straightly porrect palpi are long-haired, particularly on the middle joint, 
the body being likewise clad with long and scrubly hah; the frons does not project, but it exhibits a horny 
plate below; the smooth small eyes are narrow bean-shaped. G antennae ciliated. The long-hahed anterior 
tibiae exhibit inside at the end a long bent horny sting, outside a shorter one. Shape of wings relatively narrow 
with aii oblique distal margin, in the neuration not different from the general Noctuid type. 3 species are known 
so far. Type: H. modicella Grt. 
H. modicella Grt. (47 g) has purple red forewings strewn with black, with a broad ochreous-yellowish 
oblique band from the apex to the centre of the hind-margin, and a small spot in the cell-end. Hindwing blackish- 
brown with ochreous-grey fringes. Colorado, Oregon, California. 
H. Indiana Kioiat is above almost uni-coloured purple carmine on the forewing, in the somewhat 
paler marginal area sometimes a yellowish ground appears, the median area often somewhat lighter purple. 
Hindwing unicoloured black with white fringes. Indiana, in May and June. 
H. dysseteta Dyar (47 g) has dark brown forewings strewn with ochreous, in the lighter median area 
with a round dark, light-centred reniform macula and a fine dark postmedian line behind it. Hindwing black 
with a short yellow discal band and light yellow fringes. Mexico (Guerrero) in November. 
