PLITSIDTA. 



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side by white, oblique, from costa to vein 1, a rounded chocolate- 

 brown patch be_yond it and a patch below it on inner margin ; 

 antemcdial line double, brown, curved ; orbicular defined by brown, 

 elliptical, a similar spot below it below the cell ; reniform defined 

 by brown ; a reddish brown medial shade ; postmedial line double, 

 brown, filled in with -white and the outer line black-brown at inner 

 margin, oblique to vein G where it is angled outwards, then obliquely 

 incurved ; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side by 

 chocolate-brown to vein 5, then by a brown shade and with a 

 rufous patch beyond it at apes, oblique to vein 6, then bent 

 inwards to vein 5, then sinuous ; a brown terminal line defined on 

 inner side by white beyond the red apical patch. Hind wing 

 reddish brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line with whitish 



WAi.— Plusldia chciraii(hi, t^ . \. 



shade beyond it; the underside wdiite tinged with red-brown, a 

 slight discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and subterminal 

 shade. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing much paler ; hind wing wdiite faintly tinged 

 with red-brown. 



Hah. N.E. Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls., Silesia, Frey Coll. ; 

 Austria, Graliciaj Hungary, D'Emmich Coll. ; S. Russia, Urals ; 

 Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia ; E. Siberia, Dahuria, 

 Amur land, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate (Wliiteley), 1 c? , 1 $ type 

 ahrostoloides, Oiwake {Fryer), 1 c?, 1 $• Exp. 32-38 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 268; H£fm. Eaiip. p. 133, pi. 35. 

 f. 4. 



Green, with dorsal and subdorsal white lines on thoracic somites 

 and oblique white streaks on abdominal somites ; lateral line white ; 

 11th somite humped. Food-plants, Tlialictnim and Aquilegia 

 vulgaris. 5. 



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