334 HELIOTHIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
smoothly scaled. Quite a number of species from all faunal districts. Type: H. dipsaceus L. (Europe). 
chloropha. 
turbata. 
paradoxa. 
hyperfusca. 
cysiiphora. 
ononis. 
phloxipha- 
gus. 
inierjacens. 
luteitincta. 
acesias. 
obsoleta. 
umbrosa. 
chilensis. 
virescens. 
subflexa. 
rliexia. 
specianda. 
distinct a. 
Sect. I (. Heliocheilus Grt.) in the $ with a veined hyaline membrane in the cell of the forewing. 
H. chloropha Hbn. (= lupata Grt.) (47 1). Forewing ochreous-yellowish, in the marginal area more 
red-brown with transverse lines being marked by black and white dots, the posterior line distally with a red- 
brown band; from the lower cell-angle a median shadow extends to the liind-margin. Hindwing reddish-yellow 
with a darker median spot and postmedian line. Known from Texas. 
H. turbata Wkr. (— albidentina Wkr.) (47 1) is much darker ochreous-brown, with white dentate 
transverse lines, the anterior line broken up into dots, before the posterior line with a red-brown band with 
black dots; the indistinct dark maculae are centred with white. Hindwing ochreous-brown with a darker margin 
in the centre of which there is an ochreous-red spot. Florida. 
H. paradoxa Grt. (47 1). Forewing light ochreous-brownish, only the posterior transverse line is visible 
as a row of black and white dots. Hindwing yellowish-white with a dark marginal band containing a light 
spot. The $ is more intensely marked with distinct maculae and a dentate postmedian line. From Texas and 
Colorado to Mexico. — ab. hyperfusca Strd. (= ab. I Hmps.) is in both sexes darker brown, strewn with black, 
with 3 distinct white-centred maculae, distally to the postmedian line with a darker band. Hindwing with 
a darkened basal area. 
H. cystiphora Wllgr. (= onca Wllgr.) (471) is somewhat similar to paradoxa , more greyish-brown, 
with a more intensely dentate, distinct black post-median line distally bordered with white; the whitish dentate 
undulate line is on both sides shaded with brown; the coniform and reniform maculae are black, the latter 
with an ochreous-yellow ring. Hindwing ochreous-brownish, in the basal area darkened, with a brown median 
spot and postmedian line, in the dark marginal band with small yellowish spots. Panama, Galapagos Is., also 
reported from Hawaii. 
Sect. II ( Chloridea Westw.) <$. Forewing normal. 
H. ononis ScMff. (= septentrionalis Edw.) (47 1). This small species occurring also in Europe and 
Asia has been described in Vol. Ill, p. 245, and figured on pi. 50 k. It has been found in America from Hudson 
Bay and British Columbia to Colorado. 
H. phloxiphagus Grt. <£• Rob. (= pldogophagus Grt. & Rob., armiger Drc. nec Hbn.) (47 m) is in the 
nomenclatural form light olive-brownish, with dentate transverse lines being broken up in dots; the ring-macula 
is somposed of 3 dots, the reniform macula is black with dots in the corners, before the row of dots of the undulate 
line with a darker band. Hindwing yellowish-white with a black-striped basal area, a large discal spot and 
marginal band with a light double spot in it. From British Columbia to Mexico. — f. interjacens Grt. has more 
yellowish-reddish forewings, and f. luteitincta Grt. (47 m) has bright orange-yellow hindwings; it is the form 
predominating in Mexico, where it attains a particular size (= acesias Fldr.). The larva is green with a double 
dorsal line filled with a darker black, and a light lateral band being below bordered with white. It lives on 
Grindelia squarrosa. 
H. obsoleta Fabr. (= armigera Hbn.) (47 m) is very variable particularly in the size, the forewing 
varying from olive-grey to light reddish or yellowish-brown, more or less strewn with black, with indistinct 
fine transverse lines, the posterior line double and more strongly dentate with fine white vein-dots and 
with brown-centred maculae which are also surrounded with brown, generally with a darker subterminal band. 
Hindwing yellowish-white with a broad blackish-brown marginal band. This insect being distributed in the 
whole world has also been dealt with in Vol. Ill and X. It occurs in the whole of America from Canada down 
to Chile. — Larva green with white longitudinal lines, the dorsal line bordered with black, with a brown 
head and black neck-shield. On many plants and particularly noxious to the cotton-plant. — f. umbrosa Grt. 
is a form darkened by brown. 
H. chilensis Hmp.s. (47 m). Forewing yellowish olive with a red-brown costal margin and transverse 
lines broken up into dots, the maculae being darkened. Fringes pink. Hindwing light yellow with a broadly 
darkened marginal band, in the $ quite brown. Chile. 
H. virescens Fabr. (= viridescens Wkr., prasina Wkr., pyraloides Wkr., tergemina Fldr.) (48 a). 
Fore wing ochreous yellowish-green with a reddish costal margin and 3 whitish oblique bands distally bordered 
with a darker green, and an indistinct oblique reniform macula. Hindwing diaphanous white with a faded 
dark, often reddened marginal band which is absent in — f. subflexa Guen. — In f. rhexia Abb. & 8m. all the 
reddish tints are absent, the colour is darker, more blackish-brown, the light oblique stripes are more distinctly 
prominent. — spectanda Streck. (= molochitina Berg) has a double white median band. — f. distincta Schs. 
(48 a) is not green but yellowish-brown, more intensely strewn with blackish. Very widely distributed from 
Canada to Peru. — The green larva which is dorsally and laterally shaded with black and has a broad white 
lateral band strewn with reddish lives on many kinds of Solanaceae, particularly also on tobacco. 
