CALOPLUSTA. 407 



8223. Caloplusia devergens. 



Js^octua devergens, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 500-1 (1818) ; Diip. Lep. 

 Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 492, pi. 42. f. o; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 240. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; teguhe with 

 grey line at middle and grey tips ; patagia with grey bar at middle 

 and grey tip.s ; abdomen dark brown, the crests tipped with grey. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with reddish brown and irrorated with 

 dark brown, the medial area below the cell suffused with dark 

 brown ; subbasal line whitish defined at sides by dark brown, 

 waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line whitish defined at 

 sides by dark brown, curved, incurved in cell; orbicular Avith 

 Avhitish annulns and its centre defined by dark brown, small, 

 oblique elliittical ; an oblique white Y-shaped stigma below the 

 cell ; renifoi-m with whitish annulus and dark brown marks in its 

 upper extremity and lower part, constricted at middle and with 

 dark brown marks before and beyond it ; postmedial line white 

 defined at sides by dai*k brown, slightly waved, excm-ved to vein 5, 

 then oblique, some minute white points beyond it on ccsta ; siib- 

 terminal line dark brown defined on outer side by whitish, slightly 

 waved, excurved l)elow veins 7 and 6 and angled outwards below 

 veins 4 and 8 ; a fine white line just before termen from apex to 

 vein 2 ; cilia chequered brown and grey. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow ; the base and inner margin dark brown ; a slight brown 

 discoidal bar ; traces of a postmedial series of brown points on the 

 veins usually present ; a black-brown terminal band, its inner 

 edge incurved at vein 2 ; cilia dark brown at base, chequered 

 brown and white at tips. Underside yellow, the fore wing and 

 costal area of hind wing slightly iiTorated with bro\m, the terminal 

 areas suffused with brown ; fore wing with small brown discoidal 

 spot, the hind wing with discoidal striga. 



Hah. ? Labbadoe ; Switzeelaxd, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls., Engadine, Frey Coll. ; Laplaxd, Leech Coll. ; W.Turkestax, 

 Kisil-Art, Ala Tau, Pamirs. Exp. 32 millim. 



Larva. Kirbr, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. '272; Hffin. Ranp. p. 186. 



Dark violet with pale grey lateral lines. Food-plants : Silene 

 acaiilis, Viola, Geum. 7-8. 



8224. Caloplusia alticola. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 2.) 

 Tltisia alticola, Wlk. xii. 912 (1857) ; Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 258. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown mixed Avith grey. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with 

 black, the medial area below the cell deep red-brown ; subbasal 

 line greyish defined on each side by dark brown, curved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line grey defined on each 

 side by dark brown, strongly incurved in cell, then excurved ; 

 orbicular with whitish anmdus and its centre defined by black, 

 small, oblique elliptical ; a small narrow oblique V-shaped silvery- 



