444 xocTUiD.i;. 



*S266. Chrysoptera aurata. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 27.) 



Plusia cmrata, Stand. Stett. Ent.. ZeiL. 1888, p. 260 ; id. Eom. Mem. vi. 

 p. 636, pi. 10. f. 6 ; id. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous and with a few dark 

 brown scales, the meta thoracic crest red-brown and white at tip ; 

 palpi with red-brown streak at side of 2nd joint, the 3rd joint 

 mostly dark brown ; abdomen yellowish white, the crests red-brown 

 and white at tips. Tore wing metallic golden slightly irrorated 

 with red- brown, the veins streaked witli red-brown ; a red-brown 

 subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line slight, red-brown, 

 strongly excurved; orbicular slightly defined by red-brown, oblique 

 elliptical, conjoined to a rounded spot below the cell ; reniform 

 very indistinctly defined by red-brown, strongly constricted at 

 middle and with black point beyond its upper extremity ; medial 

 line dark red-brown, rather diffused at costa, angled outwards to 

 lower angle of cell, then oblique ; postmedial line red-brown, oblique 

 to below vein 7, angled inwards at diseal fold, excurved at middle, 

 then oblique and slightly sinuovis ; subterminal line red-brown, 

 excurved to diseal fold in which there is a streak before it extending 

 to the postmedial line, then faint, oblique, slightly angled out- 

 wai'ds below vein 4, a j^inkish white patch beyond it above tornus ; 

 a red-brown terminal line. Hind wing pale j^ellow tinged with 

 brown, the veins browner ; a red-brown terminal line ; the underside 

 slightly irrorated with red-brown, an indistinct brown medial line 

 and postmedial line strongly excurved below costa. 



Hah. E. SiBEBiA, Amurland, Kaddefka, in Coll. Piingeler, 

 Ussuri. JExp. 40 millim. 



8267. Chrysoptera moneta. 



Nodua moneta, Fabr. Maiit. Ins. ii. p. 162 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. ff. 189, £89, 773-6; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. p. 63, pi. 139. f. 2 ; Fi-r. 

 Beitr. pi. 71 ; South, Er,tom. sxiii. p. 287, pi. 3. f. 6 (1890) ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 235 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 198. 



Noctuaflavago, Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 112. f. 1 (1787). 



Nociua napelii, Vill. Eut. Linn. p. 275, \A. 6. f. 21 (1789). 



Noctua argyriiis, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 218 (1792). 



Plmia esmeralda, Oberth. Et. Eat. v. p. 85 (1880). 



Beva trabea, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vii. p. 29 (1896). 



Head and thorax white tinged with rufous and mixed with red- 

 brown and black scales ; palpi in front and behind with red-brown 

 streaks on 2nd joint and dark brown on 3rd joint; abdomen white 

 tinged with brown, the crests red-brown at tips. Fore wing pale 

 bright rufous irrorated with some black scales and largely suffused 

 Avith silvery-gold especially on inner medial area, apical part of 

 costal area, and middle of terminal area ; subbasal line double, red- 

 brown filled in with gold and with some gold before and bej^ond it, 

 from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, red-b]'own 



