CHRYSOPTERA. 443 



oblique and slightly sinuous, some brown suffusion before it and a 

 brown shade beyond it ; subterminal line brownish, waved, excurved 

 below vein 7 and incurved below discal fold ; a brown terminal 

 line. Hind wing grey-brown ; . the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown, an oblique diffused brown medial line and postmedial 

 line oblique below discal fold. 



Hah. Belgium ; GtEemant, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria ; Hu]s^gart ; Switzerland ; N. Italy ; S. Scandinavia ; 

 S. Russia ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moilis Eur. p. 267; Hffm. Eaup. p. 132, pi. 35. f. 2. 



Humped ; green, -with three white longitudinal lines on somites 

 2 to 4 and oblique dark green stripes broadly bordered by white 

 from dorsum to sides of preceding somites ; the three terminal 

 somites white. Food-plants : Tlialictrum aqtdlegifolium and 

 Aq^uiJegia vulgaris. 9-4. 



8265. Chrysoptera splendida. 



Deva s2->lendlda, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 203 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B.M. 



iii. p. 23, pi. 46. f. 8 ; Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 637, pi. 10. f. 8 ; id. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 235. 

 Plusia intractata, Staud. Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1888, p. 262. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pink, some of the scales 

 tipped with grey ; antenna? whitish ; j)ectus ochreous white behind ; 

 abdomen pale red-brown, the crests bright red-brown tipped with 

 grey, the ventral si;rface whitish. Fore wing bright red-brown 

 mixed with greyish and irrorated with a few black scales, the area 

 before inner half of the postmedial line and the terminal area 

 suffused with gold; subbasal line represented by double white 

 striae from costa ; antemedial line white defined on inner side bv 

 greyish, angled outwards below costa, then obliquely curved to 

 inner margin near base ; orbicular defined by white, elliptical, con- 

 joined to a stigma defined by white below the cell, its inner side 

 produced to a point on median nerviire confluent with the ante- 

 medial line and its lower extremity somewhat produced ; reniform 

 slightly defined by whitish, narrow, oblique, a black point in its 

 upper extremity ; postmedial line slight, whitish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then double, oblique, sinuous, slightly bent outwards 

 to inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line brown, defined on outer side by whitish towards 

 costa and inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 ending at tornus ; a terminal white line except towards tornus ; 

 cilia red-brown mixed with whitish. Hind wing cujjreous red- 

 brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside white irrorated with 

 red-brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a brown post- 

 medial line excurved below costa, and subterminal shade. 



Hal. E. Siberia, Ussuri, 1 6\ Japan, Yesso {Fryer), 1 <S , 

 Hakodate, 2 6 type, Tokio {Maries), 1 $ , Yokohama {Fryer), 

 1 d , 3 ? . Exi^. 32-42 millim. 



