CHETSOPTEEA. 441 



whitish suffused with red-brow^n especially on terminal half ; cilia 

 white at tips ; the underside white tinged and irrorated with brown 

 and with traces of postmedial and subtenninal lines. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, lladdefka, type f $ in Coll. 

 Piingeler ; Maxchueia. E^iy. 36 milliiu. 



Sect. II. Fore wiug with the termen evenly curved. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards to 



below apex. 

 a. Fore wing with tlie subtenninal line angled inwards to 



the postmedial line at vein T) micadiiia. 



h. Fore wing with the subtenninal line not angled inwards 



to the postmedial line at vein 5 c-aiireum. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled outwards to 



below apex. 



a. Fore wing red-brown suffused in parts with gold sx<leiidida. 



h. Fore wing metallic golden uurata. 



c. Fore wing whitish tinged with red-brown. 



a'. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell U-shaped ... moiieta. 



b\ Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblique 



V-shaped moriyera. 



8263. Chrysoptera micadina. 



Plusia mikadina. Butl. A.M. N. H. (5) i. p. 202 (1878) ; id. 111. Ilet. B.:\L 

 iii. p. 22, pi. 4(5. f. 7 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with blue-grey ; antennae 

 white ; pal])i reddish brown ; pectus whitish ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with red-brown, the cre.sts red-brown. Fore wing pinkish 

 suffused with purplish grey and slightly irrorated Avith brown, the 

 area before the postmedial line below submedian fold and the 

 terminal area brilliant gold ; subbasal line represented by a red- 

 brown striga fi-om costa, a red-brown jiatch beyond it with golden 

 spots on it below costa and cell ; antemedial line slight, double, 

 red-brown, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly 

 waved, and retracted to inner margin ; orbicular represented by 

 two obliquely placed spots defined by brown, the lower minute; an 

 oblique elliptical spot defined by larown at origin of vein 2, its 

 lewder part filled in with a golden comma-shaped mark ; reniform 

 represented by two small brown annuli defined by greyish ; medial 

 line brown, oblique and rather diffused to the reniform, then 

 inwardly oblique; postmedial line double, brown filled in witli 

 pui-plish grey and defined on outer side by purplish grey with a 

 brown shade beyond it, bent outwards below costa, oblique to below 

 vein 7, then obliquely incurved ; traces of a red-brown subtenninal 

 line, excurved below Vein 7 and oblique to tornus ; a brown terminal 

 line defined on inner .side by grey towards apex. Hind wing pale 

 cupreous brown, the cilia pale niious ; the underside ochreous white 

 irrorated with brown, diffused curved brown medial and postmedial 

 lines. 



