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vered with pale transverse, striae. Eormed by the slightly raised pale tips of linearly arranged scales; hindwing 

 greenish ochreous. with darker outer line and diffuse terminal shade; the ^ is darker, more violet grey, 

 with the oblique line edged internally by an olive band, preceded by an additional fine olive line incurved 

 to costa; the subterminal line sometimes marked by dark vein dashes; hindwing darker grey, sometimes 

 fuscous. Japanese examples are usually of the same size as European; but one form, — ab. intensiva ah. iniensiva. 

 nor. (69 g) of which I have seen 2 ££ only, is considerably larger, of a much darker violet grey, with the 

 olive green bands well marked, and the whitish transverse striae unusually numerous ; the hindwings blackish 

 fuscous with an olive flush: this may be a distinct species. Larva green, with a prominent dark green 

 d.usal line widened on each segment, traversing a broad brown dorsal stripe; a line above the spiracles 

 with a black spot in middle of each segment; sometimes uniform green; feeding on Thalictrum flavum, the 

 winter brood hybemating small. A South European insect, found in Spain, the Pyrenees, and Southern 

 Alps, in Carinthia. Hungary, the Bukowina, the Balkans, and S. Russia; in Armenia, Hi, Issyk-kul, Amurland, 

 Corea. and Japan. 



C. bicolor Jloore (69 g). Forewing brownish ochreous tinged with purplish; the intervals between the bieolor. 

 browner oblique fasciae greyish; the outer oblique line red; the pale transverse strigulae distinct; on the 

 veins towards termen are some black and white dots; hindwing wholly clear yellow; head and thorax, palpi, 

 and forelegs above brownish ochreous, speckled with grey; abdomen and legs yellow; near ophideroidesGuen., 

 but smaller, the forewing of quite a different colour. An Indian species recorded by Leech from Omeishan, 

 W. China, 



Sect. II. Antennae of <J with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 



C. minuticornis Guen. (69 g). Like capucina, but the ground colour of forewing shining pinkish minuticor- 

 or violet grey, the bands and suffusion deep olive green, the oblique red line thicker and straighter; hind- nis - 

 whig smooth fuscous, with pale yellowish fringe. Described originally from Java, and also occurring in India; 

 recorded from Raddefka in Amurland. 



Sect. III. Antennae of £ with pedicellate fascicles of cilia. 



C. aureola Graes. (69 h). Distinguished from capucina by the deep golden brown suffusion of the fore- aureola. 

 wing, which pervades the costal streak and termen, and partially obscures the lines; the oblique line is deep 

 red, ending at apex in a dark grey spot ; the cilia are also visibly crenulate ; the fore tibiae and palpi are dull 

 deep orange : on the underside the hindwing is pale yellowish ochreous with a grey subterminal band. From 

 Sidemi, Corea, and Japan. 



47. Genus: Oraesia Guen. 



Allied to Calpe, but sufficiently distinguished by the uniseriate antennae of the $ and simple an- 

 tennae of the 2, and, more especially, by the long porrect rostrate palpi, which, like the frons and shoulders, 

 are orange dotted with fiery red and veined with dark. Type 0. emarginata F. 



Sect. I. Termen of forewing angled at vein 4. 



0. emarginata F. (= metallescens Guen., alliciens Walk., tentans Walk., (69 h). $. Forewing dull greyish emaryinata. 

 ochreous, tinged with pink, suffused, especially below middle, with olive;, median vein and space immediately 

 below it dark brown; two wavy oblique olive brown lines near base, the median shade straighter and thicker, 

 followed by a fairly clear dark-edged reniform stigma ; the oblique outer line double, running from % cf costa 

 to an acute point on the termen at vein 7, then oblique and divergent inwards to % of inner margin, the 

 interval filled up with pinkish; beyond it an olive shade broadening downwards, and at anal angle becoming 

 bright golden: hindwing dingy luteous with the termen dark fuscous; some examples are much suffused 

 with purplish fuscous; the 2 is much gayer, the pale and dark tints being each intensified; a pale pinkish 

 streak is in some cases visible along vein 2. Larva dark violet brown, with a subdorsal series of scarlet and 

 yellow spots, and a sublateral series of white dots. An Indian species extending into China, Japan, and the 

 Corea. 



