ilL> 



NOCTUIBJ;. 



Ilah. E. SiiiKRTA, Ussiiri; Japax. Hakodate, 1 S type, Oiwake 

 (Pn/rr), 1 5 , Fusliiki (Leech), 1 d . Tokio (Maries),'! ? . Krj/. 

 34-42 luillim. 



8264. Chrysoptera c-aureum. 



riialcena c-uiireum, Knoi^li, Eeiti*. i. p. 7, pi. 1. f. 2 (17S1) ; Esp. Sclniiett. 



iv. pi. 110. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 

 Ndctiia concha, Fuhr. Jloiifc Ins. ii. p. 1(>1 (1787) ; Ilubii. Eur. Schmett., 



Koct. ff. 287 (187), 4.58 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. p. (JG, pi. lo'J. L'6; Err. 



Beitr. pi. 7G. 



Head and thorax dark Lrown mixed witli blue-grey, the patagia 

 and mesothoracic crest witli some rufous ; antenna? white ; palpi, 

 fruns. and pectus in front dark hrown, the hinder part of pectus 

 whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests rufous. Fore wing 



Fig. 111. — Chrysoptera c-aurctim, c?. 



))iid\ish suffused with purplish grey and slightly striated with brown, 

 brilliant gold spots before the postmedial line above and below 

 vein 1 and the terminal area brilliant gold ; subbasal line indis- 

 tinctly double, red-brown, from costa to submedian fold, some red- 

 brown suffusion beyond it with a gold spot on subcostal neryure ; 

 antemedial line double, brown, angled outwards below costa and 

 inwards on median neryure. then excuryed and sinuous, an oblique 

 brown l)ar above it from costa ; orbicular indistinct, brownish, repre- 

 sented by two obliquely placed .spots, the lower minute ; an elliptical 

 spot defined by brown at oi'igin of yein 2 with a golden U-shaped 

 mark in its lower part ; rcniform very narrow and strongly con- 

 stricted at middle, with slightly greyish annulus ; medial line brown, 

 diffvised and oblique to tlie renifonn, tlien inwardly oblique and 

 sinuous ; postmedial line double, brown filled in witli grey, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to below vein 7. then inwardly 



