PLTTSIA.— CALPE. 35 



of secondaries and borders of all the wings below ill-defined. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 9 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



Plusia purissima. (Plate XXXI. fig. 11.) 



Plusia purissima, Butler, Ann. 4" Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 202 (1878). 



Allied to P. parilis, larger, greyer, with better-defined markings, more sericeous ; - pri- 

 maries more acuminate ; lower half of external area and a broad streak, from the apex to the 

 end of the cell, whitish ; transverse band more oblique, the limiting lines black, with white 

 outer edge ; the y replaced by two silver spots ; the submarginal line straight to the third 

 median branch, terminating before apex ; a marginal abbreviated piceous and white streak : 

 secondaries pale brown, darker externally ; two ill-defined dusky discal lines : under surface 

 silky grey, with two parallel darker discal lines ; secondaries with the basal half whitish. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



CAJjPIDJE. 



CALPE, Treitschke. 

 Calpe excavata. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1.) 

 Calpe excavata, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 202 (1878). 



Form of C. thalictri, excepting that the inner margin of the primaries is more deeply 

 excavated and more widely lobate. More nearly allied to C. rectistria, but the primaries of a 

 richer reddish-brown colour; the golden patch above the external angle wanting; the double 

 oblique line from the apex more widely separated and irregular towards the inner margin : 

 secondaries of a dull sandy brown tint, with broad fuliginous external border ; head and thorax 

 orange and red-brown, tinted with lilacine as in C. rectistria ; abdomen fuliginous ; primaries 

 below redder ; secondaries yellower, with black discocellular lunule ; a dusky discal streak ; 

 disk beyond the streak greyish, excepting at apex. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



Calpe sodalis. (Plate XXXII. fig. 2.) 

 Calpe sodalis, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 203 (1878). 



Closely allied to C. thalictri, but differing in its paler colouring and the shortness and 

 colour of the fringe, which does not differ from the rest of the wing ; primaries below with 

 darker discal streaks ; secondaries with paler discocellular litura and discal streak. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



Hakodate" (Whitely) ; Yokohama (Jonas). 



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