2yo LEI'IDOI'TERA. 



Silesia. Nortberu Italy, Livonia, I'inlainl, the Ural Mountain 

 district, 'i'artary. and the iiiouiitaiuoiis regions oi' Central 



Asia. 



12. C, fulvata, Fm-sl. — E.xpanse 1 inch. Fore win^s 

 rich yellow shaded with orange-red ; central band and an 

 apical streak purplish-orange, edged with black ; cilia 

 spotted. Hind wings silky-white. 



Antenuiu of the male simple, ciliated, whitish-yellow ; palpi 

 j)romineut, pale yellow brown, tips whiter; face, head, and 

 neck-ridge whitish-ochreous; thorax orange-yellow, the back 

 tuft small, yellowish-white ; abdomen slender, long, pale straw- 

 colour; the tufts distinct, the anal tuft long. Fore wings rather 

 narrow ; costa gently arched, more strongly so toward the apex, 

 wliicli is angulated and rather jtointed ; hind margin below it 

 slightly retuse, then gently rounded off : dorsal margin also a 

 little filled out ; colour rich yellow clouded with orange-red; 

 basal line a narrow orange-red stripe, its margins fine purple- 

 red lines, the outer rather curved ; first line upright, placed 

 far from the base, angulated in the middle, indented below, 

 purplish-black edged inwardly with yellcwish-white ; second 

 line not very far beyond, curved and scalloped, throwing out 

 a strong angle or tooth just above the middle, purple-black, 

 edged outwardly with yellowish-white ; the space between 

 these lines tbrnis a rather narrow central band, especially 

 narrow in its lower half, of rich orange-red clouded with 

 purple-red. and having some leaden-black dusting in the 

 niiddlf : hind-marginal region clouded, especially in the 

 middle, with softer purplish-red or tawny, which is sharply 

 cut off above by the angulated margin of a pale yellow tri- 

 angle occupying the apical space; cilia orange-yellow spotted 

 regularly with purple-black. Jlind wings silky-white with a 

 faint yellow tinge and without markings ; cilia yellowish- 

 white. Female similar, but with the body shorter. 



Underside of the fore wings ])ale straw-colour, tinged along 

 the costa with orange ; central band indicated in smoky 



