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Vhalceva aurosignafa, Donov. Erit. Ins. xiii. pi. 453. f. 1 (1808). 

 Plusia horealis. Renter, Act. Fauna Flora Feiin. ix. p. 67 (1893). 

 Flusia iraii.-baikalensis, Stand, Iris, v. p. 371 (1892). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with grey- white ; tegulse 

 Avith two dark Hnes defined behind by white ; patagia with two 

 dark bars defined by white ; nietathoracic crest tipped with white ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown, 

 the crests dark brown tipped with white. Fore wing grey- white 

 tinged in parts with red-brown and irrorated with black-brown, the 

 medial area with a patch of black-brown suffusion below the cell ; 

 subbasal line double, dark brown filled in with silvery-white, waved, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, dark brown filled in 

 with silvery- white, angled outwards below costa, bent inwards in 

 cell, then waved ; orbicular with silvery- white annulus and its 

 centre defined by dark brown, oblique elliptical or irregularly 

 rounded ; a silvery- white rather irregular V-shaped stigma below 

 the cell with a small spot or annulus beyond its lower extremity ; 

 reniform with silvery- white anniilus defined at sides by dark brown 

 and its centre defined by dark brown, constricted at middle ; a 

 ratlier diffused sinuous dark brown medial line, oblique to lower 

 angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, 

 dark brown filled in by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and minutely waved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line black-brown with some reddish brown suffusion 

 before it except towards costa and a short dark streak at discal fold, 

 excm-ved below vein 7, angled outwards below veins 4 and 3, then 

 waved ; a crenulate white line just before termen, defined on each 

 side by dark brown ; cilia chequered white and dark brown. Hind 

 wing pale cupreous red-brown, the terminal area darker, an 

 indistinct sinuous brown postmedial line ; cilia white with a series 

 of brown spots near base ; the underside whitish tinged with 

 red-brown and irrorated vd.th dark brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with dark brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule and 

 oblique postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with small annulus confluent with the outer 

 edge of the stigma at middle. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with a small spot confluent with the stigma 

 below. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing without spot or annulus beyond the stigma. 



Ab. 4. transiaicalensis. Fore wing much greyer ; hind wing 

 paler. — E. Siberia. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller and 

 Frey Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls. ; N. Italy ; Scandinavia, Lapland, Leech Coll. ; 

 Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, 2 d , 1 ? . Exp. 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Lap. Brit. p. 169; Barrett, Brit. Lep. vi. p. 133, pi. 243. 

 f. 3; Hff'in. Euup. p. 135. 



Green ; dorsal line darker with pale edges ; subbasal line whitish 

 green ; lateral line whitish green with dark edges ; spiraeular line 

 yellow. Food-plants : Erica, CkiUuna. JJrtica, etc. ij-Q, 



