196 TELESILLA; CALLOGONIA; PLUSILLA; VIRGO. By W. Warren. 



from upper end to outer line and purple and black dots at the lower end; subterminal line white and 

 dentate to vein 6, then obscure, the black streaks in the interspaces beyond it ending in small terminal 

 lunules; hindwing purplish redbrown; fringe white chequered with brown. Described from a 2 only, from 

 Omei-shan, W. China. 



89. Genus: Telesilla H. Sch. 



Tongue well-developed; irons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment rough-scaled in front, the 

 terminal short, pointed; antennae of <J thick, lamellate, finely pubescent; thorax and abdomen with slight 

 crests, that on third dorsal segment more conspicuous; wings broad, the termen smooth. Larva on Um- 

 belliferae, resting by day extended on the stems; hybernating in the pupa state, in the ground. Type 

 Telesilla amethystina Hbn. 



amethy- j # amethystina Hbn. (44 f). Forewing olive green suffused with rosy pink; the olive tints predomi- 



nant in basal half of wing and along termen; basal and inner lines dark olive, edged with rosy pink, the 

 former outwardly, the latter inwardly; outer line dark olive, dentate lunulate, almost lost in the rosy 

 suffusion; stigmata rosy pink inlined with olive, the claviform and orbicular with white annuli, all 3 con- 

 nected by a wedgeshaped pink mark below median, often suffused with olive; cell and space below it 

 deep dark olive; submarginal line pinkish, indented on each fold; fringe olive and pink; hindwing pale 

 grey, suffused with fuscous olive. Occurs in Central Europe, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, N. Italy, 

 Switzerland, the Balkan States and S. Russia ; also in Amurland, Japan, Corea, and China; — the East Asiatic 



austera. form, — subsp. austera subsp. nov. (44 f), — differs from the European in being much more sombre, the 

 olive shading being stronger and greyer, and the rosy tints duller. — Larva green; dorsal line yellowish edged with 

 deep green; subdorsal lines white; spiracular line broad, yellowish, sometimes tinged with red; spiracles black; 

 feeding on the lower leaves of wild carrot and parsley. 



40. Genus: Callogonia Hmps. 



Differs from Telesilla, in the irons bearing a tuft of hair and in the abdomen being quite smooth, 

 without crests. The inner and outer lines of forewing are conversely oblique and confluent above inner 

 margin. Type Callogo7iia virgo Tr. 



■cirgo. C. virgo Tr. (= spencei Bsd.) (44 f). Forewing pale violaceous grey tinged and dusted with olive 



brown; the cell before and beyond orbicular stigma deep olive-brown diffused to costa; the inner and outer 

 lines white edged with brown, conversely oblique and confluent at inner margin; upper stigmata also 

 conversely oblique, generally confluent on median vein, white with narrow grey brown centres; submarginal 

 line obscurely white, interrupted at vein 6 and angled; fringe pale grey and brown with a pink tinge; hind- 

 wing pale grey brown with traces of cellspot and outer line. In Europe found only in Hungary and the 

 Ural Mts. in Russia; in Eastern Asia, in Amurland, Japan, and Corea. 



41. Genus: Plusilla Stgr. 



Distinguished from Callogonia and Telesilla by the tongue being aborted and minute; the absence 

 of crests on both thorax and dorsum; the palpi also are more slender, the second segment smooth. Type 

 Plusilla rosalia Stgr. 



rosalia. P* rosalia Stgr. (44 f). Forewing rufous olive with a pink tinge; inner line oblique, sinuous; outer 



line pale yellow with black edges below vein 6, indented below vein 3; its upper part obscured by rufous 

 suffusion; between them a sinuous and oblique median black line with pale yellow before it and rufous 

 beyond; no stigmata; hindwing yellowish white, tinged with pink along termen; some brown scaling below 

 and beyond cell. E. Siberia and China. 



42. Genus: Virgo Stgr. 



Tongue slight; frons smooth, but rough-haired; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment 

 clothed with long sparse hairs, the third pointed; antennae of <$ strongly serrate, each serration with a 

 short fascicle of cilia and a long curved bristle; thorax and pectus roughly haired; the prothorax with erect 

 crest; dorsum with a basal crest only; anal segment with a ring of stiff short hairs; wings with evenly 

 rounded termen. Type Virgo datanidia Btlr. 



