■iO'6 NOCTUJD.E. 



f>. Fore 'wing with the stigin.a helow the cell Y-shaped. 



rt'. Size smaller ; fore wing witli the stigma more acute 



at extremity ; hind wing pale orange-yellow hochenvarihi. 



i'. Size larger; fore wing with the stigma below the cell 

 more i-ounded at extremity ; hind wing deeper otange- 

 y ellow ignea. 



8222. Caloplnsia virgula. (Plate CCXXXYI. fig. 1.) 



Thida virqult, Blanch. Gay's Chile, Zool. vii. p. 84 (1852). 



Piusiu ccr/a, Wlk. xii. 020 (1857). 



Triphana signafa, Phil. Linn. Ent. xiv. p. 293 (I860). 



Head antl thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the tegula? with 

 dark lines near base and at middle and wliitish tips, the patagia 

 with dark lines at middle and near tips defined behind bv white ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen rufous irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing grev suffused with red-brown and sliyflitlv irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line white defined at sides by red-brown and 

 Tdack, Avaved, from costa to vein 1, two short black streaks beyond it 

 below the cell ; antemedial line whitish defined at sides by brown 

 and by black towards inner maro'in, ansfled outwards below costa, 

 then strongly bent inwards, excurved above vein 1, a slight black 

 streak before it below costa ; orbicular with white annulus and its 

 centre slightly defined by black, narrow, oblique ; a silvery-white 

 Y-shaped stigma defined by black below the cell, its tail short, 

 bent outwards and somewhat dilated ; reniform with slight white 

 annulus defined by black at sides and its centre partly defined by 

 black, consti-icted at middle ; a faint dark medial line, oblique to 

 lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, 

 red-brown filled in with whitish and defined on outer side by 

 white, some black on its inner edge at vein 3 and on both sides at 

 inner margin ; excurved below costa, then oblique and minutely 

 waved, somewhat excurved at middle, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line black defined on outer side by white 

 towards inner margin, angled inwards at A-eins 5 and 2, excurved 

 beloAv A-ein 7 and angled outAvards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine 

 white line before tennen ; cilia chequered red-broAvn and Avhitish. 

 Hind Aving deep orange ; the base Avith short dark sti-eaks on the 

 A'eins ; a terminal black-broAvn band A\-ith slightly AA-aA'ed inner 

 edge ; cilia brown at base, chequered brown and whitish at ti])s. 

 Underside orange, the costal areas tinged and in-orated Avith red- 

 brown, the terminal areas suffused Avith red-brown ; fore A\-ing Avith 

 black discoidal striga. 



Ab. 1. Fore Aving Avith the stigma reduced to a V-mark. 



Hah. CliTLT (C/nniiir/, Edmonds), 3 $ type certa, Coquimbo 

 (J. J. Walker), 2 $ ," Talcahuano (J. J.' Walker), Id, 12, 

 Mulchen (iVu-es), 3 d , 1 d , Chilan {Ehi-es) , 1 <^. . Exj). 28-30 

 millim. 



Lnri-a. Izquierdo, Notas, Lep. Chile, 189:>, p. 30 (189G). 



