40(5 XOCTUTDJ;. 



b. Fore wing with tlie stigma below the cell Y-shaped. 

 «^. Size smaller; fore wing with the stigma more acute 



at extremity ; hind wing pale orange-jellow hochenvarihi. 



h^. Size larger ; fore wing with the stiguja below the cell 

 mure rounded at extremity ; hind wing deeper orange- 

 yellow ignea. 



8222. CaloplTisia virgTila. (Plate CCXXXYI. fig. 1.) 



Flttsia virgida, Blanch. Gay's Chile, Zool. Tii. p. 84 (1852). 



Plusia certa, Wlk. xii. 920 (1857). 



TriphcB-na signata, Phil. Linn. Ent. xit. p. 293 (1860). 



Head and thorax l■ed-bro^vll raised -with gi'er, the tegulse Avith 

 dark hnes near base and at middle and whitish tips, the patagia 

 with dark hnes at middle and near tips defined beliind by white ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen mfous iiTorated with brown. 

 Fore Aving grev suffused with red-brown and slightly irroi-ated Avith 

 black ; subbasal line white defined at sides by red-brown and 

 black, wayed. from costa to yein 1, two short black streaks beyond it 

 below the cell ; antemedial Ime whitish defined at sides by browT.i 

 and by black towards inner margin, angled outwards below costa, 

 then strongly bent inwards, excuryed aboye yein 1, a slight black 

 sti'eak before it below costa ; orbicular with white annulus and its 

 centre slightly defined by black, narrow, oblique ; a silvery- white 

 Y-shaped stigma defined by black below the cell, its tail short, 

 bent outwards and somewhat dilated ; renif orm with slight white 

 annulus defined by black at sides and its centre jjaitly defined by 

 black, consti-icted at middle ; a faint dark medial line, obhque to 

 lower angle of cell, then inwardly obhque ; postmedial hne double, 

 red-brown filled m with whitish and defined on outer side by 

 Avhite, some black on its inner edge at yein 3 and on both sides at 

 inner margin ; excurved below costa, then obhque and minutely 

 wayed, somewhat excuryed at middle, some Avhite points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line black defined on outer side by white 

 toAvards inner margin, angled inwards at yeins 5 and 2, excurved 

 below vein 7 and angled outv\"ards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine 

 white line before termen ; cilia chequered red-brown and whitish. 

 Hind wing deep orange ; the base with short dark streaks on the 

 yeins ; a terminal black-brown band with slightly waved inner 

 edge ; cilia brown at base, chec[uered brown and whitish at tips. 

 Underside orange, the costal areas tinged and iiTorated Avith red- 

 brown, the tenninal areas suffused with red-brown ; fore AAing with 

 black discoidal striga. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma reduced to a V-mark. 



Sah. Chili {Cuming, Edmonds). 3 $ type certa, Coquimbo 

 (J. J. Walker), 2 2, Talcahuano (J. J. ^Walker), Id, 12, 

 Mulchen (Ehces) , 3 ^ , 1 ^ , Chilan (Ulices), 12 ■ I^xp. 28-30 

 millim. 



Larva. Izquierdo, Xotas, Lep. Chile, 1895, p. 30 (1896). 



