. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 14 NOCTCID.^. *6. Heliophana aniaryllis. (Plate LIX. fig. 1.) HcUo'phana amari/Uis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 130 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with sparse pale yellowish hair. Fore wing dirty greyish brown, the medial area dirt}' yellowish white ; snbbasal line whitish defined by black ; antemedial line whitish, defined on inner side by black, on outer by a grey shade, slightly incurved in cell and angled outwards on median nervure: orbicular and ren
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 14 NOCTCID.^. *6. Heliophana aniaryllis. (Plate LIX. fig. 1.) HcUo'phana amari/Uis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 130 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with sparse pale yellowish hair. Fore wing dirty greyish brown, the medial area dirt}' yellowish white ; snbbasal line whitish defined by black ; antemedial line whitish, defined on inner side by black, on outer by a grey shade, slightly incurved in cell and angled outwards on median nervure: orbicular and reniform black, the former round, touching the antemedial line, the latter large ; a slight medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line whitish, defined on inner side by a grey-brown line, on outer by the dark terminal area, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterraiual line whitish, angled inwards below costa and in discal and submedian folds, excurved above and below middle ; veins of terminal area and cilia streaked with whitish. Hind wing black, with whitish medial band almost divided at lower angle of cell by the large black discoidal spot; cilia whitish at tips. Under- side of fore wing white with black fascia below base of cell, large black orbicular, reniform, and subapical spots, an irregular black terminal band ; hind wing with the medial band broader than above. Hab. , California, Colton. Exp. 20 millim. This species is unknown to me: figured from a photograph from type in Nat. Mus. 7. Heliophana mitis. Melicleptria mitis, Grote, Bull. Buif. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 116, pi. 3. f. 7 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. Helio'pliana obliquata, Smith, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xviii. p. 130 (1891). (5 . Head and thorax fulvous yellow; abdomen black, with fulvous segmental lines and the extremity fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, with rufous markings irrorated with black; a diffused band from. Fig. 6.—Helioplmna m
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