. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 18 NOCTTJIDJE. ochreous. Underside of fore wing black-brown, with the costa,. apex, and a transverse band ochreous; hind wing silvery grej',. with very indistinct medial band. 2 . Head and thorax tinged with greenish ; fore wing with the inner edge of medial band angled outwards to lower angle of cell, the terminal area wholly green except au apical ochreous spot. Hab. Algeria, Bou-Saada, type t in Coll. Oberthur. Exp. 20 millim. 13. Heliothis cognata. NocHiacognata, Frr. Beitr. iii. p. 134, pi. 135. f. 3 (1830); Hiibn. Schmett
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 18 NOCTTJIDJE. ochreous. Underside of fore wing black-brown, with the costa,. apex, and a transverse band ochreous; hind wing silvery grej',. with very indistinct medial band. 2 . Head and thorax tinged with greenish ; fore wing with the inner edge of medial band angled outwards to lower angle of cell, the terminal area wholly green except au apical ochreous spot. Hab. Algeria, Bou-Saada, type t in Coll. Oberthur. Exp. 20 millim. 13. Heliothis cognata. NocHiacognata, Frr. Beitr. iii. p. 134, pi. 135. f. 3 (1830); Hiibn. Schmett. Eur. iii. f. 828; Eur. Schmett. ff. 550, 561; Staud. Cut. Lep. pal. p. 22]. Head and thorax black, clothed with pale olive-brown hair ;. abdomen black with pale segmental rings, the anal tuft and ventral surface pale olive-brown. Fore wing black, overlaid with rufous scales; a curved Avhitish autemedial line; the postmedial line slightly angled below costa, then oblique, the area between the two- lines whitish tinged with brown towards costa and inner margin, forming a whitish band enclosing the small dark reniform stigma ; a narrow pale terminal band with dark streaks on the veins, its inner edge angled inwards in discal and submedian folds. Hind wing black, with white medial band reaching inner margin and with irregular edges; cilia white. Underside of fore wing black, with the white band extending on inner area to base ; reniform black; apical area and a spot above tornus whitish tinged with rufous ; hind wing with some rufous on inner side of medial band at costa and on apical area. Hah. Atjsteia ; Hungary, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Eastern Europe ; Asia Minor, Lydia, Pontus. ^. 22 millim. 14. Heliothis cardui. Nochia cardui, Esp. Schuiett. iv. pi. 191. ff. 2, 3 (1786): Hiibn. Beitr. ii. pt. 4, pi. 1. f. B : id. Eur. t?chmett., Noet. f. 313 ; Dup. Hist, Nat. Lep. Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 311, pi. 119. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Heliothis cardui, y&am
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