CURYSOPTERA. -1-13 



oljlitiue aiul slightly sinuous, sonic lirown suffusion before it and a 

 brown shade beyond it ; subterniinal line brownish, waved, excurved 

 l)elow vein 7 and incurved below diseal fold ; a brown terminal 

 line. Hind wing grey-brown ; the underside Avhitish irrorated 

 with brown, an oblique diffused brown medial line and postmedial 

 line oljlicjue below diseal fold. 



Rah. Belgium ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; N. Italy ; S. Scandinatia ; 

 S. KussiA ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exj). 40-46 milUm. 

 Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Mollis Eur. p. 267; Hffm. Raup. p. VA2, pi. '^5.t 2. 

 Humped ; green, with three white longitudinal lines on somites 

 2 to 4 and oblique dark green stripes broadly bordered by Avhite 

 from dorsum to sides of preceding somites ; the three terminal 

 somites white. Food-plants : TJialicinim aciuUef/ifolium and 

 Aquihijia vulgaris. 9-4. 



8265. Chrysoptera splendida. 



I)eva splendida, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 203 (1878) ; id. 111. Ilet. B.M. 



iii. p. 23, pi. -46. f. 8 ; Staud. Kom. Mem. vi. p. 537, pi. lU. f. 8 ; id. Cat. 



Lep. pah p. 235. 

 Fliisia intractata, Staud. Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1888, p, 262. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pink, some of the scales 

 tipped with grey ; antennae whitish ; pectus ochreous white behind ; 

 abdomen pale red-brown, the crests bright red-brown tipped with 

 <'-rev, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing bright red-brown 

 mixed with greyish and irrorated with a few black scales, the area 

 before iimer half of the postmedial line and the terminal area 

 suffused with gold ; subbasal line represented by double white 

 stride from eosta ; antemedial line white detined on inner side by 

 tT-revish, angled outwards below^ costa, then obliquely curved to 

 inner margin near base ; orbicular detined by white, elliptical, con- 

 ioined to a .stigma defined by white below^ the cell, its inner side 

 produced to a point on median ner\aire confluent with the ante- 

 medial line and its loAver extremity somewhat produced ; reniform 

 slio'htlv defined by whitish, narrow, obli(|ue, a black point in its 

 up])er extremity ; postmedial line slight, whitish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then double, oblicpie, sinuous, slightly bent outwards 

 to inner margin, some whitish points be^'ond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line brown, defined on outer side by whitish towards 

 costa and inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 ending at tornus ; a teiininal white line exce])t towards tornus ; 

 cilia red-brown mixed with whitish. Hind wing cujjreous red- 

 brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside white irrorated with 

 red-brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a brown post- 

 medial line excurved below costa, and subterniinal shade. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, 1 6 ; Japan, Yesso {Fryer), 1 6 , 

 Hakodate, 2 6 type, Tokio (3Iarirs), I $, Yokohama (Pryer), 

 1 d , 3 2 . Kr/. 32-42 millim. 



