CHI?YSOPTE]{.\. 445 



tilled in with gold and with some gold before and beyond it, ex- 

 curved below eosta. incurved in cell, then excurved ; orbicular 

 defined by red-brown, its annulus formed by golden silvery spots, 

 extending abiiost to submedian fold, its inner edge excised ; a 

 curved red-brown medial shade with the deeper red-brown medial 

 line on it, obli(]uely incurved to lower angle of cell, then oblique ; 

 postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with gold and with some 

 gold before and beyond it, oblique to below vein 7, then inwardly 

 oblique, sinuous, and slightly excurved at vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 red-brown, oblique to below vein 7, then waved, excurved at 

 middle ; the apical golden patch defined by bright rufous below, 

 angled inwards in discal fold ; a red-brown terminal line. Hind 

 wing pale cupreous red-brown, the costa whitish ; cilia whitish 

 with a red-brown line through them ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, the costal area with blackish, a slight brown discoidal 

 striga and rather diffused postmedial line excurved below costa. 



Ab. 1. esmerahla. Head, thorax, abdomen, and wings with the 

 rufous tones replaced by pale yellowish brown. — Alberta, E. & W. 

 Turkestan, Mongolia, Siberia, N. China. 



Huh. Canada, Alberta. Calgary {IVoUey-Bod), 3d, 3 $; 

 Britain ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Zeller Coll. ; Spain, 

 Andalusia; Russia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk-Kul, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; E. Siberia, Dahuria, Ussuri ; N. 

 China. Ex^). 36^4 millim. 



Larva. ]\rfvr. Brit. Lep. p. 156 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 104, pi. 211. f. 2 ; 

 IlfTn.. Raup. p.' 132, pi. 3.o. f. 3. 



Grass-green with white dots ; dorsal line dark ; lateral line white. 

 Food-plants : Aconitam napellas, Ddpliinium, and Troll ius 

 eurojiceus. both leaves and flowers, o-t) and 7-8. 



82GS. Chrysoptera mori^era. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 28.) 



J3era /«or/V/trrt, ir. EUw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 169 (1SS7) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Ain.'p. 247. 



S ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed Avith red- 

 brown. Fore w^ng white mostly suffused with pale red-broAvn and 

 irrorated with a few black scales; a curved subbasal white striga from 

 costa defined on inner side by red-brow-n ; antemedial line brown 

 with whitish suifusion before it, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblicpiely curved ; orbicular and the stigma below the cell defined by 

 white, both naiTow oldique bar-shaped ; renifonn faintly defined 

 by whitish ; postmedial line white, angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, sinuous, and incurved in submedian interspace ; sub- 

 terminal line diffused, whitish defined on inner side by red-brown 

 suffusion, excurved below vein 7, excurved and somewhat dentate 

 at middle, and ending at tornus ; a fine dark terminal line defined 

 on iimer side by white; a white line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with cupreous brown especially on terminal area ; a 



