CHKYSOPTEKA. 445 



filled in with gold and with some gold before and beyond it, ex- 

 curved below costa, incurved in cell, then excurved ; orbicular 

 defined by red-brown, its annulus formed by golden silvery spots, 

 extending almost to submedian fold, its inner edge excised ; a 

 curved red-brown medial shade Avith the deeper red-brown medial 

 line on it, obliquely incurved to lower angle of cell, then oblique ; 

 postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with gold and with some 

 gold before and beyond it, oblique to below vein 7, then inwardly 

 oblique, sinuous, and slightly excurved at vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 red-brown, oblique to below vein 7, then waved, excurved at 

 middle ; the apical golden patch defi.ned by bright i-ufous below, 

 angled inwards in discal fold ; a red-brown terminal line. Hind 

 wing pale cupreous red-brown, the costa whitish ; cilia whitish 

 with a red-brown line through them ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, the costal area v/ith blackish, a slight brown discoidal 

 striga and rather diffused postmedial line excurved below costa. 



Ab. 1. esmeralda. Head, thorax, abdomen, and wings with the 

 rufous tones replaced by pale j^ellomsh brown. — Alberta, E. & W. 

 Turkestan. Mongolia, Siberia, N. China. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {WoUey-Dod), 3 c?, 3 2; 

 Britaiist ; France, Sand Coll. ; GtERMAis-y, Zeller, Yt&j, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria ; Huis'gary ; Switzerland, Zeller Coll. ; SpaijS', 

 Andalusia ; EussiA, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issjdf-Kul, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; E. Siberia, Dahuria, Ussuri; N. 

 China. Exp. 36-44 miUim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 156 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 101, pi. 241. f. 2 ; 

 Ilffin.Eaup. p. 132, pi. 35. f. 3. 



Grass-green with white dots ; dorsal line dark ; lateral line white. 

 Eood-plants : Aconitum napellus, DeJpliinium, and TroUius 

 enropceus, both leaves and flowers. 5-6 and 7-8. 



8268. Chrysoptera morig-era. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 28.) 



I)eva'>norigera,'H..'E.{Xv!.'E.\-\t. Am. ii. p. 169 (18S7) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Aui. p. 247. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white sHghtly mixed with red- 

 brown. Fore wing white mostly suffused vdth pale red-brown and 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; a curved subbasal white striga from 

 costa defined on inner side by red-brown ; antemedial line" brown 

 with whitish suffusion before it, angled outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely curved ; orbicular and the stigma below the cell defined by 

 white, both narrow oblique bar-shaped ; renif orm faintly defined 

 hj whitish ; postmedial line white, angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, sinuous, and incurved in submedian interspace ; sub- 

 terminal line diffused, whitish defined on inner side by red-brown 

 suffusion, excurved below vein 7, excurved and somewhat dentate 

 at middle, and ending at tornus ; a fine dark terminal line defined 

 on inner side by white ; a white line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with cupreous brown especially on terniinal area ; a 



