PYRRUIA. 55 



Ht/drcecia tibetana, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 232 (1878) ; id. 2nd 



Yarkand Mission, Lep. p. 9, pi. 1. f. 21. 

 Chariclea v&xiliiger, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 92 (1893; ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



P . 223. 

 Pijrrhia aconiti, Holtz. AUg. Zeitschr. Ent. vii. p. 212 (1902). 



Head and thorax rufous, the latter with some ochreous ; ahdomen 

 ochreous suffused with rufous. Pore wing ochreous suffused with 

 rufous, the postmedial area rather browner except at costa, the 

 veins streaked with rufous ; subbasal line rufous, curved, from costa 

 to submedian fold; antemedial line rufous, angled inwards on 

 median nervure and vein 1, outwards below cell and excurved 

 above inner margin ; claviform slightly defined by rufous, large 

 and extending to cell ; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous 

 and with some rufous iu centres, the former round, the latter 

 large ; medial line rufous, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, 

 then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line rufous, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then very oblique and slight]) - sinuous, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line rufous, slightly 

 angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3,2; a fine rufous terminal line. 

 Hind wing ochreous, the inner area tinged with brown, the veins 

 and an ill-defined discoidal lunule brown; abroad rather diffused 

 fuscous subterminal band leaving the termeu ochreous tinged with 

 rufous: cilia yellowish white; the underside yellowish white, the 

 costal area suffused with rufous ; a small discoidal spot ; a curved 

 postmedial line from costa to submedian fold with diffused rufous 

 band beyond it. 



Ab. 1. eosprlmens. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal 

 areas suffused with red-brown. — Canada and U.S.A. 



Ab. 2. cilisca. Hind wing paler yellow, the postmedial band pale 

 crimson. — U.S.A. and ? Brazil. 



Jffab. Canada, 1 cf , Ontario, Orilla (Bush), 1 J type exprimens, 

 Manitoba, Aweme (C riddle), 1 $; U.S.A., Eastern and Central 

 States, New York (Riley), 2 § , Buffalo, 2 rf type avgulata, Kansas 

 (Snow), 2 d , Colorado, California, Mendocino, 1 $ ; ? Brazil, type t 

 cilisca in Coll. Oberthiir ; Britain, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; 

 Gkrmany, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Austria; Hungary; Switzer- 

 land, Zeller Coll.; Italy; Scandinavia; Ktjssia, Livonia, Zeller 

 Coll., Sarepta, Leech Coll. ; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; Persia ; W. Tur- 

 kestan, Issyk Kul; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, Amurland, 

 Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 2 <5 , Yokohama (Pryer), 1 2; 

 Corea, Gensan (Ito), 1 $ ; C. China, Ichang (Mrs. Pratt), 1 $ ; 

 Kashmir, Kiris (Leech), 1 $ ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultan pur (0. Young), 

 2 2 ? Dharmsala (Hocking), 1 d , 1 $> ; Assam, Khasis (Badgley), 

 4 S , 1 $ , Nagas. Exp* 32-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 119 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 148, pi. 244. f.4. 



Dull green or dark grey speckled with white and dorsally with 

 black ; dorsal line double, whitish ; subbasal line whitish or pale 

 vellow ; spiracular line yellowish or pale ochreous, white- edged 

 above ; warts black ; head pale green or reddish ochreous ; thoracic 

 plate sometimes black. Food-plants : Ononis or Geranium pratensc. 

 7-8 ; in Assam, SiegesbecJcia oricntalis. 10. 



