. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. CHAKICLEA. 53 with purplish pink ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with olive, the sides purplish pink. Fore wing whitish, strongly suffused with magenta, most deeply on basal area and beyond the postmedial line; a double higbly-curved dentate antemedial line; orbicnlar small, eliptical, and defined by p)ink, connected with the reniform by a streak on subcostal nervure, the latter purple defined by pink and by black on upper part of outer side, where it is produced to a. Pig. 2 -Chariclea delpluni (^ lobe, the
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. CHAKICLEA. 53 with purplish pink ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with olive, the sides purplish pink. Fore wing whitish, strongly suffused with magenta, most deeply on basal area and beyond the postmedial line; a double higbly-curved dentate antemedial line; orbicnlar small, eliptical, and defined by p)ink, connected with the reniform by a streak on subcostal nervure, the latter purple defined by pink and by black on upper part of outer side, where it is produced to a. Pig. 2 -Chariclea delpluni (^ lobe, the lower part slightly produced on inner side, and with sinuous line from it to inner margin; the postmedial line double, escurved from below costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved, the area between it and subterminal line deep magenta, brownish towards costa ; the subterminal line excurved between veins 7 and 4, then incurved ; a fine terminal line ; cilia tinged with ochreous. Hind wing white, the veins and inner margin brown : the terminal area fuscous brown, the termen itself magenta : cilia white. Under- side of both wings with the ground-colour white. Hah. Britain, South ; Fkance ; Germany, Zeller & Prey Colls.; Switzerland, Zeller Coll. ; Italy ; Sweden ; Eussia, Livonia; Greece {Merlin); Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 34-38 millim. Subsp. 1. claroUed, Obei-th. Et. Ent. i. p. 49, pi. 4. f. 5 (1876). Very much paler. Hah. Algiers; Armenia; W. Turkestan, Ferghana. Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p, 144. Slender; violet-grey, with an interrupted black dorsal line edged with yellow; each somite with four large black dots ; sides paler, with broad yellow sublateral band with five large black dots above it on each somite; head yellow, with three large black dots and border on each hemisphere behind, frontal plate black; dorsal plate black, bisected by a yellow line ; anal plate yellow, dotted with black. Food-plant, flowers and seed of Delpliinium Please note
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