CHARICLEA. 



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with purplish pink ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with olive, 

 the sides purplish pink. Fore wing whitish, strongly suffused 

 with magenta, most deeply on basal area and beyond the postmedial 

 line : a double liighly-curved dentate antemedial line ; orbicnlar 

 small, eliptieal, and defined by pink, connected with the reniform 

 by a streak on subcostal nervure, the latter purple defined by pink 

 and by black on upper part of outer side, where it is produced to a 





Fig. 22.- — Charidea delphlni (^ 



lobe, the lower part slightlj' produced on inner side, and with 

 sinuous line from it to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, 

 excurved from Ijelow costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved, the 

 area between it and siibterminal line deep magenta, brownish 

 towards costa ; the subterminal line excurved between veins 7 and 4, 

 then incurved ; a fine terminal line ; cilia tinged with ochreous. 

 Hind wing white, the veins and inner margin brown ; the terminal 

 area fuscous brown, the termen itself magenta ; cilia white. Under- 

 side of both wings with the ground-colour white. 



Hah. Britain, 8outh ; France; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; 

 Savitzerland, Zeller Coll. ; Italy ; Sweden ; Russia, Livonia ; 

 Greece (Merlin) ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Ea'j^). 34-38 

 millim. 



8ubsp. 1. darollesi, Obei-tli. Et. Ent. i. p. 49, pi. 4. f. 5 (1876). 



Very much paler. 



Hah. Algiers ; Armenia ; AV. Turkestan, Ferghana. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Bi-it. vi. p. 144. 



Slender ; violet-grey, with an interrupted black dorsal line 

 edged Avith yellow ; each somite with four large black dots ; sides 

 paler, with broad yellow sublateral band with five large black dots 

 above it on each somite ; head yellow, with three large black dots 

 and border on each hemisphere behind, frontal ])late black; dorsal 

 plate black, bisected by a yellow line ; anal plate yellow, dotted 

 with black. Food-plant, flowers and seed of Delj)hinium consolida. 



