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brown. Hind wings pale brown with darker medial line and outer 

 border; terminal line brown, fringes whitish. Underside whitish 

 brown with a broad purplish transverse shade beyond middle of fore 

 wings andtwo undulated lines beyond the blackish discoidal mark 

 on hind wings. 



? . Similar to the male but darker in colour, especially on the 

 bind wings. 



Expanse : $ 48 mm. ; $ 53 mm. 



Collection number 1163. Eeference to British Museum, 

 Noctuinas, Drawer 207. 



Local distribution. — Hokkaido. 



General distribution. — British Museum Collection, Central 

 China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 $ . Japan, Hokkaido (Andrews), 

 2 ? . Wileman Collection, Hokkaido, Hakodate, 1 $ type bred 

 from larva of August 7th, 1902, 1 <? bred August 6 th, 1902, 

 1 $ bred, undated, 1 $ type (Andrews), undated, unlocalised. 



Larva (described from artist's figure). — Length about 58 mm. 

 Head pale yellow. (One side of head only described.) Four black 

 spots. One large one on the side, and one small one just above ; 

 two on the central area, namely one in the centre and one above on 

 vertex of head. The two side spots are no doubt reduplicated on the 

 other side of the head. Colour black. The body intersected dorsally 

 and laterally with a few slender, thread-like, silver, longitudinal lines, 

 more conspicuous on the anterior segments. Legs, prolegs and 

 claspers pale yellow. 



Food-plant. — This has been identified for me from the figure 

 painted by my Japanese artist in Hakodate as being probably 

 Corydalis pallida, Persoon, var. platycarpa, Maxim, Japanese 

 name Kikeman. 



Figured July 8th, 1902, pupated July 15th, 1902, $ imago 

 emerged August 7th, 1902. 



Larva and pupa of Calpe minuticornis, Guenee. — " Larva olive- 

 grey ; with a subdorsal row of black-bordered yellow spots and clots, 

 and a sublateral row of small yellow spots ; a sublateral pale pinkish- 

 bordered black line enclosing the spots from fifth segment ; stigmata 

 black ; head ochreous yellow with a black cheek-spot ; legs pale pink. 

 Pupa dark purplish-red. Feeds on Cocculus macrocarpus, etc. 

 (Thwaites)." Moore (/. c). 



Lane End, 

 Westcott, 



Dorking. 



