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1776. Diacrisia purpurata. 



Bombyx 'purpurata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 505 (1758) ; Staud. Cat. p. 57 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 260. 

 Bombyx picrpurea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 828 (1769) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. 



p. 325, pi. 65. ff. 1-5 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. ff. 142, 229 ; Godt. L6p. 



Fr. iv. p. 339, pi. 35. ff. 2, 3. 

 Arctia purpurea, ab.flava, Staud. Cat. p. 57 (1861). 

 Arctia purpurea, ab. caucasica, Alph. Trudui Ent. Eoss. x. p. 14 (1878). 



Bright yellow ; palpi, frons, antennae, and legs brownish ; some 

 crimson on basal joint of palpi, behind the eyes, and on femora above ; 

 abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface tinged with crimson. Fore wing with antemedial, medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal series of grey-brown spots, those on 

 costa larger except in the subterminal series ; some points in and 

 beyond angles of cell ; some marks beyond the subterminal series of 

 spots at middle and towards apex. Hind wing scarlet ; the inner 

 margin and cilia yellow ; an oblique antemedial series of spots or 

 maculate band ; a large discoidal lunule ; three large subterminal 

 spots below costa and on veins 5 and 2 and a smaller spot at 

 tornus. 



Ab. 1. flava. Hind wing yellow. 



Ab. 2. caucasica. Fore wing with the spots almost obsolete. 



Hah. France ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Italy ; Dalmatia ; Greece {Merlin) ; Armenia ; Altai ; Amur ; 

 Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 (S ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 1 $ . Eccp., 

 cr44, $52millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. Moths, pi. 23. f. 8 a. 



Black, with tufts of rufous hair, the hair at sides yellow ; dorsal 

 and lateral yellow stripes. 



1777. Diacrisia amurensis. 



Chelonia amurensis, Brem. Bull. Acad. Pet. iii, p. 477 (1861) ; id. Lep. Ost- 

 Sib. p. 39, pi. 3. f. 16 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 250. 



cJ . Bright mustard-yellow ; palpi black above, crimson below ; 

 frons black ; antennae brown ; pectus crimson and brown ; legs 

 brown, with the femora crimson above ; abdomen scarlet, with 

 dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Fore wing with the costal 

 edge blackish; three obliquely placed antemedial black points 

 below costa and one or two above inner margin ; a black point in 

 upper angle of cell and sometimes others beyond upper and lower 

 angles, and sometimes postmedial points above inner margin and 

 veins 2 and 5. Hind wing scarlet ; a small medial spot below the 

 cell, and sometimes one on vein 1 ; a discoidal lunule ; some con- 

 joined subterminal spots towards costa, a large spot on vein 2 and 

 a small spot on vein 1. Underside of fore wing scarlet with black 

 spot in cell, a medial band angled below the cell, discoidal lunule, 

 and three or four postmedial spots. 



