444 NOCTL'ID.K. 



*8266. Chrysoptera aurata. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 27.) 



Thtsia aurata, Stuml. Stctt. Ent. Zeil. 1888, p. 260 ; id. Hum. McImii. ri. 

 p. 53(5, pi. 10. \: 6 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 23.3. 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous and with a few dark 

 hrown scales, the metathoracic crest red-brown and white at ti}) ; 

 ]yd\\)\ witli red-hrown streak at side of 2nd joint, the 3rd joint 

 mostly dark brown ; abdomen yellowish white, the crests red-]jrowii 

 and white at tips. . Fore wing metallic golden slightly irrorated 

 with red-brown, the veins streaked with red-brown ; a red-brown 

 subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line slight, red-brown, 

 strongly excurved; orbicular slightly defined by red-brown, oblique 

 elliptical, conjoined to a rounded spot below the cell; reniform 

 very indistinctly defined by red-brown, strongly constricted at 

 middle and with black point beyond its upper extremity ; medial 

 line dark red-brown, rather diffused at costa, angled outwards to 

 lower angle of cell, then oblique ; postmedial line red-brown, oblique 

 to below vein 7, angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at midclle, 

 then oblique and slightly sinuous ; subterminal line red-brown, 

 excurved to discal fold, in which there is a streak before it extending 

 to the postmedial line, then faint, oblique, slightly angled out- 

 ^\ ards below vein 4, a pinkish \\liite patch beyond it above tornus ; 

 a red-brown terminal line. Hind wing pale yellow tinged with 

 brown, the veins browner ; a red-brown terminal line ; the miderside 

 slightly irrorated with red-brown, an indistinct brown medial line 

 and postmedial line strongly excurved below costa. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Am'urland, Haddefka, in Coll. Piingeler, 

 Ussuri. Exp. 40 millim. 



8267. Chrysoptera moneta. 



Kor/iia moneta, Fabr. Maiit. Ins. ii. p. 102 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eiir. Schmett., 

 jVoct. 11'. 189, £81), 773-5; Dup. Lep. Fr. Vn. 2. p. G3, pi. 139. f. 2 ; Frr. 

 Beitr. pi. 71 ; South, Entom. xxiii. p. 287, pi. 3. f. G (1890); Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 235 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 198. 



XocfiiaJIavaffo, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 112. f. 1 (1787). 



Noctua naiKlli, Vill. Ent. Liiin. p. 275, pi. 5. f. 21 (1789). 



JS'octua argyritis, Esp. Schinett. iv. p. 218 (1792). 



Pluda csmeralda, Obei-tli. Et. Ent. v. p. 85 (1880). 



Deva trabea, Siiiilli, Ent. News Philiid. vii. p. 29 (1896). 



Head and thorax white tinged witli rufous and mixed with red- 

 brown and black scales ; jialpi in front and behind with red-brown 

 streaks on 2nd joint and dark brown on 3rd joint; abdomen white 

 tinged with brown, the crests red-brown at tips, p'ore wing ])ale 

 liright rufous irrorated with some black scales and largely suifused 

 with silvery-gold esjiecially on inner medial area, apical part of 

 costal area, and middle of terminal area ; subbasal line double, red- 

 brown filled in with gold and with some gold before and beyond it, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, ivd-bi-own 



