442 



NOCTUID.E. 



Hal). E. SiBEJRiA, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate, 1 6 type, Oiwake 

 {Fryer), 1 $ , Fushiki {Leech), 1 c? , Tokio {Maries), 1 $ . Exp. 

 34-42 millim. 



8264. Chrysoptera c-aureum. 



FhalcBna c-aureum, Knor.h, Beitr. i. p. 7, pi. 1. f. 2 (1751) ; Esp. Schniett. 



iv. pi. 110. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 23."). 

 Noctua concha, Fabr. Mont. Ins. ii. p. 161 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. ff. 287 (187), 458 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. p. 66, pi. 139. f. 3; Frr. 



Eeitr. pi. 76. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with blue-grey, the patagia 

 and mesothoracie crest Avith some rufous ; antennaj white ; palpi, 

 frons, and pectus in front dark brown, the hinder part of pectus 

 whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests rufous. Fore wing 



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Fig. 111. — Chrysoptera c-cmreum, (^ . 



pinkish suffused mth purplish grey and slightly striated with brown, 

 brilliant gold spots before the postmedial line above and below 

 vein 1 and the terminal area brilliant gold ; subbasal line indis- 

 tinctly double, red-brown, from costa to submedian fold, some red- 

 brown suffusion beyond it with a gold spot on subcostal nervure ; 

 antemedial line double, brown, angled outwards below costa and 

 inwards on median nervure, then excurved and sinuous, an oblique 

 brown bar above it from costa ; orbicular indistinct, brownish, repre- 

 sented by two obliquely placed spots, the lower minute ; an elliptical 

 spot defined by brown at origin of vein 2 with a golden U-shaped 

 mark in its lower part ; reniform very narrow and strongly con- 

 stricted at middle, with slightly greyish annulus ; medial line brown, 

 diffused and oblique to the reniform, then inwardly oblique and 

 sinuous ; postmedial line double, brown filled in mth grey, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to beloAV vein 7, then inwardly 



