HELIOPHANA; HELIOSEA; MELICLEPTRIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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2. Genus: Heliopliana Grt. 
Separated from the preceding genus by more obliquely rising palpi and a stronger frontal projection 
with a bent horny plate below it. The short broad anterior tibiae exhibit inside 2, outside 3 bent horny stings; 
the small eyes are here also bean-shaped. Only 3 small North-American species. Type: H. mitis Grt. 
H. bina Guen. (47 g). Forewing claret-coloured, in the basal and median areas brown, in the marginal bina. 
area mixed with olive-yellow, with very indistinct transverse lines proceeding from small white costal-marginal 
spots. Hindwing black, base, 2 discal spots, and fringes yellow. The $ is darker red. From New York and 
Nebraska. 
H. amaryllis Sm. (47 g). Forewing greyish-brown, in the median area yellowish-white, with whitish amaryllis. 
transverse lines bordered with a darker shade, and black ring-shaped and reniform maculae; undulate line 
and the veins in the marginal area whitish. Hindwing black with a broad whitish median band in which there 
is a large black spot at the lower cell-end. California. 
H. mitis Grt. (= obliquata Sm.) (47 g) is on the forewing ochreous-yellowish with 2 red-brown mitis. 
oblique bands strewn with black. Hindwing blackish-brown with light yellow fringes. Texas, Mississippi. 
3. Genus: Ifeliosea Grt. 
Structure the same as in the preceding genus, but with only one bent horny sting on the inside of 
the anterior tibiae and 3 such stings on the outside. But one species: type: H. pictipennis Grt. 
H. pictipennis Grt. (47 g). Forewing ochreous-yellowish, basal area, costal margin, the posterior 'pictipennis. 
transverse line and distal margin with the fringes carmine. Hindwing black with a white median band. 
California. 
4. Genus: Melicleplria Hbn. 
It comprises the small anartoid species of the genus denoted by Hampson as Heliothis 0. Structure 
of Heliopliana, but the short broad anterior tibiae are on both sides spined almost in their whole length and 
exhibit at the end inside a long bent horny sting, outside a shorter one. Type: cardui Hbn. (Europe). 
M. celeris Grt. (47 g) is easily separable from all the others by the deep hemochrome hindwings. celeris. 
Forewing dark purple red; in the median and marginal areas powdered with olive, the maculae and a Y-shaped 
band below the cell whitish. California. 
M. scissa Grt. (47 h) has blackish forewings clothed with red-brown hair, with a whitish triangular scissa. 
spot in the centre of the costal-margin and a small oblique black, white-haired reniform macula; behind the 
indistinct postmedian line the marginal area is powdered with grey. Hindwing black, with a large yellow median 
spot enclosing a black discal luna. Florida. 
M. graefiana Tepp. (47 h). Forewing light bluish-red with yellowish-grey transverse lines and a similar graefiana. 
spot between and below the maculae. Marginal area light grey. Hindwing yellow with a black margin and 
medium spot. California. 
M. pulchriperinis Grt. (47 h) has greyish-brown forewings suffused with purple red excepting the pulchripen- 
disc, with silvery blue transverse lines; the red reniform macula is mostly situate in a yellowish-white spot. nls - 
Hindwing blackish with a large yellowish-white discal spot extending to the costal margin. — In f. languida languida. 
Echo, the purple red powdering is almost entirely absent. From Colorado and California. 
M. antonio Sm. (47 h) is similar, but smaller, more distinctly carmine in the basal area, costal margin antonio. 
and hind-margin, in the median area yellowish, subterminally olive-brown and in the marginal area yellowish- 
brown, easily discernible by quite black hindwings with a bronze lustre and white fringes. Texas. 
M. fasciata Echo. (— sabulosa Sm.) (47 h). Forewing yellowish, in the basal area suffused with red fasciata. 
as far as the distinct carmine antemedian line, of the same colour the posterior transverse line and the 
costal margin between both, as well as the fringes, the narrow reniform macula and the more or less distinct 
undulate line indistinct, dark. The black hindwing exhibits in the G a whitish median band which is absent 
in the $. California. 
M. cresina Sm. (47 h). Forewing yellow, in the basal and postmedian areas suffused with carmine, cresina. 
the same at the costal margin of the median area, in the marginal area tinted olive, transverse lines and a 
large cellular macula dark, powdered with carmine. The black hindwing exhibits a narrow purely white 
median band which widens towards the costal margin and reaches neither to the costal margin nor to the hind- 
margin; fringes yellowish. California, in April. 
