TELESILLA. — CALT.OGOlSriA. 589 



1 2 ; CoREA, Gensan {Leech), 2 5 ; W. China, Chang-yang (Pra;^), 



2 6 . Exp. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 266 ; Hffin. Raup. p. 131, pi. 34. f. 1 7. 



Green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white ; lateral line white 

 shading to red at extremities. Food-plants : the umbels of Wild 

 Carrot and Peucedanum palustre and P. silaus. 7-8. 



Genus CALLOGONIA, nov. 



Type, C. virgo. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; 

 frons smooth with tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antennte of male laminate 

 and almost simple ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax 

 with spreading crests ; build slender ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenalate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 froni upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



3458. Callogonia virgo. 



Abrostola virgo, Treit. Eur. Schmett. x. 2, p. 130 (1825); Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. pi. 430. f. 2; Herr.-Schatf. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 248-9; 

 Friv. Tudon. Akad. Erkon. xi. iv. pi. 7. f. 5 (1866) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 235. 



Placodes spencei, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 129 (1840). 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some red-brown ; 

 sides of palpi and frons tinged with rufous ; tegul^e slightly tipped 

 with red-brown ; abdomen grey slightly tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing violaceous grey slightly irrorated with red-brown ; antemedial 

 line strong, whitish, defined on inner side with red-brown below 

 submedian fold, very oblique and slightly sinuous, angled outwards 

 above inner margin to the medial shade ; medial area suffused with 



Fig. 148 — Callogonia virgo, ^ 



red-brown to median nervure ; orbicular with grey centre and 

 pinkish-white annulus defined by brown, oblique elliptical ; reni- 

 form a very oblique pinkish-white bar defined on each side by 

 brown lines ; a very oblique diflPused brown medial shade from 

 lower angle of cell to the antemedial line above inner margin ; 

 postmedial line brown defined on outer side by pinkish white, 

 double at costa and from vein 5 to inner margin, strongly angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly excurved at middle, 



