. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. I UELIOSEA. HELIOTHIS. 15 Genus HELIOSEA. Heliosea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220(1875) Type. 'pictipennis. Proboscis fully developecl; palpi oblique to beyoud frous, fringed with hair below; Irons with rounded prominence, with curved corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform ; antenna of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair ; fore tibia spined, with ciu'ved claw on inner side and three claws on outer; mid and hind tibite spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced, the termen obliqu
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. I UELIOSEA. HELIOTHIS. 15 Genus HELIOSEA. Heliosea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220(1875) Type. 'pictipennis. Proboscis fully developecl; palpi oblique to beyoud frous, fringed with hair below; Irons with rounded prominence, with curved corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform ; antenna of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair ; fore tibia spined, with ciu'ved claw on inner side and three claws on outer; mid and hind tibite spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced, the termen oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; ti, 7 stalked. The unique type is without head and fore legs, and the descrip- tion is supplied from that of Air. Grote. 8. Heliosea pictipennis. Heliosea pictipennis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220 (1875); id. 111. Essay, (i2, pi. iii. f. 32 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. (5 . Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen black, with some hair at base and the extremity yellowish white. Fore wing ochreous ; the basal area suffused with crimson to the obliquely curved crimson antemedial line ; the costal area suffused with crimson to the crimson postmedial line, which is slightly excurved to vein 4, then. Fig. 7.—Heliosea picfipennis, (^. 5. incurved; termen and cilia suffused witli crimson. Hind wing black, with white medial band expanding to base on costa and not quite reaching inner margin ; cilia white at tips. Underside white ; fore Aving with some diffused black at base, and a diffused postmedial band from vein 5 to inner margin ; hind wing with black patch at base, extending on inner area to middle, the terminal area black from vein 4 to tornus. Hah. , California, 1 6 type. Exp. 18 millim. Genus HELIOTHIS. lype. Hcliothi
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