. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. CHLORIDEA. 45 56. Cliloridea armigera. Noctua armigera, Hixbn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 370 (1827); Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 119, ff. 6, 7; Drace, Biol. , Het. i. p. 299; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 174; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 270. Heliothispulverosa, Wlk. xi. 688 (). Heliothis conferta, Wlk. si. 690 (1857). ThalpofUla ruhrescens^, Wlk. xv. 1681 (1858). Heliothis uniformis, WUgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (I860). Heliothis punctigera, WUgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. CHLORIDEA. 45 56. Cliloridea armigera. Noctua armigera, Hixbn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 370 (1827); Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 119, ff. 6, 7; Drace, Biol. , Het. i. p. 299; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 174; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 270. Heliothispulverosa, Wlk. xi. 688 (). Heliothis conferta, Wlk. si. 690 (1857). ThalpofUla ruhrescens^, Wlk. xv. 1681 (1858). Heliothis uniformis, WUgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (I860). Heliothis punctigera, WUgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (1860). Heliothis mnhrosus, Grote, Proc. Eut. fSoc. Phil. i. p. 219 (1863). Head and thorax olive-grey or pale reddish brown: abdomen white, dorsally tinged with fuscous or reddish brown. Fore wing olive-grey or pale reddish brown ; an indistinct double waved sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double antemedial line angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin; the orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and outline, the former round, the latter with two striae above it on costa; an oblique slightly waved median line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a double dentate postmedial line, the teeth produced to slight white points on the veins, angled outwards at veins 7 and 4,. Fig-. 18. — Chloridca- armigera, ^ , (From Mollis Ind. vol. ii.) then oblique, the area betAveen it and the subterminal line usually darker, at all events towards costa, this line slightly angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at median nervules ; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing white ; the veins brown ; the terminal area broadly fuscous, with somewhat diffused inner edge and pale subterminal patch at middle often obsolescent or absent; cilia white, with brownish line at base. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular and reniform black; both wings with blackish band beyond the postmedial line except on costal area of hind wing. Ab.
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