HELIOCONTIA. By Dr. M. Dkaudt. 
obliquata. 
auruda. 
botyoides. 
intensified. 
a ur ifera. 
auriferana. 
nigrofim¬ 
bria. 
pantherula. 
apicella. 
obliquella. 
lepus. 
concordens. 
basipuncta. 
pyralidia. 
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X. obliquata H.-S. (53 a) is also similar. Forewings dusted with fuscous on ochreous ground. Anterior 
transverse line is absent. All 3 stigmata indicated by black dots. In 2 markings are more distinct. Hindwings 
reddish grey, paler at base. Cuba. 
X. auruda Schs. (53 a). Brighter yellow than the preceding species with only one diffuse fuscous oblique 
hue extending near to the apex. Stigmata also indicated by 3 black dots. Fringes lustrous leaden grey. Hind- 
wings pale brownish. Columbia, Brazil. 
X. botyoides Guen. (= alboflava Wkr ., dinumeratalis Wkr., nigrofimbria Drc. part.) (53 a). Forewings 
yellow, narrowly dusted with brown in marginal area. All 3 stigmata merely black dots, behind that of the 
reniform an additional round brown spot with whitish centre. The posterior transverse line is only indicated 
by dots. Hindwings white, brownish at margin. Mexico to Brazil and also on Trinidad. 
X. intensifica Dyar. Forewings deep orange-yellow with fuscous curved postmedian. The black stig- 
matical dots minute or missing. Hindwings orange-brown. Panama. 
X. aurifera Wkr. (= nigrofimbria Drc. part., tripuncta Moschl.) (53 a). Unicoloured pale yellow without 
deeper brown shade at margin with the 3 black stigmatical dots and a more or less distinct brown postmedian. 
Fringes grey-brown. Hindwings pale brownish. Mexico to Columbia, also on Jamaica, Cuba, Porto Rico, 
Grenada, Trinidad. — ab. auriferana Strd. (= ab. 1 . Humps .) is faintly dusted with fuscous in disc. 
X. nigrofimbria Guen. (53 a). Pure yellow, merely with the 3 delicate black stigmatical dots and black- 
brown glossily leaden fringes. Hindwings brownish. From North America (New York to Florida and Texas) 
and as far as Mexico. 
75. Genus: Hellocontla Hamps. 
Small Noctuids with narrow wings and generally with considerable differences in the sexes. Proboscis 
developed, palpi upturned, frons with round protuberance and corneous plate below. Thorax scaled and with 
a large crest at back. Abdomen without crests. On forewings appendicular cell is absent, the 3 lower subcostal 
nervules are stalked, both the upper ones arise free from the cell. On hindwings the central radial is poorly 
developed and arises from centre of disco-cellular nervure. 
H. pantherula H.-Schdff. (= uncinula H.-Schdff. 2) (53 b). The $ has deep brown basal area, beyond 
same widely white, yellow in central area and then fuscous admixed with silvery deep red. A white costal spot 
in yellow central area. Marginal area spotted yellow. The $ is fuscous in basal area, beyond same grey-black, 
dusted with deep reddish grey. In central and marginal areas speckled with green-yellow with white costal 
spots in and beyond the centre. Fine white transverse lines with yellow-white apical and anal spots. Cuba. 
H. apicella Grt. ( = truncatula Zell., accepta H.-Schdff., marmorea Drc.) (53 b). The is yellow with 
obliquely cut off fuscous basal spot, reddish brown longitudinal streak on mediana and in centre a black-brown 
patch on fringes. The 2 is black-brown, speckled with greenish yellow with fuscous basal spot edged somewhat 
yellowish and oblique yellowish apical spot. Hindwings deep reddish brown. From Carolina and Florida to 
Columbia. — The larva is brown with narrow yellow longitudinal lines. The lateral lines speckled with orange. 
It feeds on yellow Brown-weed and pupates among the leaves. — ab. obliquella Strd. (= ab. 1 Humps.) is a 
2 form with an oblique streak instead of the apical spot. 
H. lepus Guen. ( — marmorea Btlr.) (53 b). Forewings fuscous, peppered with yellow, with oblique 
darker brown basal spot edged with pale yellow. Yellow admixture in marginal area and with an oblique yellow 
spot in centre of costa. Fringes speckled with black in centre. In the $ the ground colouring is blackish, the 
long overlapping scales and the oblique spot on costa inclined to yellowish white. From southernmost Mexico 
to Brazil and Argentine. — f. concordens Dyar from Panama. The form does not differ from that of $, the 
basal spot is dark brown, beyond same black-brown, becoming paler towards the margin and terminating in 
a narrow yellow zone. The yellow costal spot in centre is narrow; hindwings black. 
H. basipuncta Schs. Forewings pale yellow, widely orange at base with an accession of black scales 
below base of cell. A fine black dot at close of cell. Hindwings brownish grey. French Guiana. 
H. pyralidia Schs. ($ = vinculis Dyar) (53 b). In J in the basal % deep reddish grey, more intense at 
base, blackish with oblique edge and with large, long, costal spot dusted with bluish white, in which the two 
stigmata are situate and more or less distinct. Margin fuscous admixed with yellow, narrowly white before 
centre. The indistinct postmedian is narrowly edged with white on costa. Hindwings yellow-white. The 2 
which was described as Fruva vinculis is blackish, densely speckled with yellow-green with oblique black-brown 
basal spot. Nebulous whitish spots are indicated on costa. Hindwings grey-brown. Mexico (Oaxaca, Tehuacan). 
