440 



NOCTUID.E. 



fi from near angle of cell ; G from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form tlie areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about lialf the 

 length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fullv developed from above angle ; 

 C, 7 from up])er angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base oulj. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle. 



*8262. Chrysoptera sica. 



P/itsi.a siea, Grocser, Berl. Ent. Zeit. sxxv. p. 77 (1890): John, Hop. Soc. 

 Ent. Ross, xxxix. p. 251, pi. xiv. f. -2 ; JStaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with riifous and irrorated with a 

 few dark brown scales ; tegulie with blackish line at middle, the tips 

 of teguhe, patagia. and meta thoracic crest red-brown and white ; legs 

 red-brown and yellowish ; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown, 

 the crests yellow tipped -svith red-brown and white. Fore wing 

 with the ground-coloiu- of the basal area and inner area to the cell 



Fig. 110. 



Chri/soptcra sica, cS ■ 



and vein 2 pale pur])lish pink, the rest of wing metallic golden, the 

 whole wing suffused in ])arts ^\'ith red-brown and irrorated with 

 black, the veins streaked with red-brown ; antemedial line red- 

 brown, excurved below costa, incurved in cell, then excun'ed ; 

 orbicular with whitish annulus defined at sides by brown, narrow, 

 oblique ; a silvery-white oblique elongate V-shajied stigma below 

 the cell, its extremity rather bent outwards ; renifonn with whitish 

 annulus defined by brown, constricted at midtUe ; postmedial line 

 double, red-brown filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved at di.^eal fold, oblique and slightly sinuous 

 below vein 4 and excurved below submedian fold, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line red-brown, slightly dentate, 

 arisintj at vein 7. angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and 

 excurved at middle ; a dark brown terminal line. Hind -wing 



