. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TELESILLA.— 589 1 2 ; CoREA, Gensan {Leech), 2 5 ; W. China, Chang-yang (Pra;^), 2 6 . Exp. 34-40 millim. Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 266 ; Hffin. Raup. p. 131, pi. 34. f. 17. Green; dorsal and subdorsal lines white; lateral line white shading to red at extremities. Food-plants: the umbels of Wild Carrot and Peucedanum palustre and P. silaus. 7-8. Genus CALLOGONIA, nov. Type, C. virgo. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and moderately fri
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TELESILLA.— 589 1 2 ; CoREA, Gensan {Leech), 2 5 ; W. China, Chang-yang (Pra;^), 2 6 . Exp. 34-40 millim. Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 266 ; Hffin. Raup. p. 131, pi. 34. f. 17. Green; dorsal and subdorsal lines white; lateral line white shading to red at extremities. Food-plants: the umbels of Wild Carrot and Peucedanum palustre and P. silaus. 7-8. Genus CALLOGONIA, nov. Type, C. virgo. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect; frons smooth with tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antennte of male laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; build slender ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and not crenalate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 froni upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3458. Callogonia virgo. Abrostola virgo, Treit. Eur. Schmett. x. 2, p. 130 (1825); Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 430. f. 2; Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 248-9; Friv. Tudon. Akad. Erkon. xi. iv. pi. 7. f. 5 (1866); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. Placodes spencei, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 129 (1840). Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with some red-brown ; sides of palpi and frons tinged with rufous ; tegul^e slightly tipped with red-brown ; abdomen grey slightly tinged with rufous. Fore wing violaceous grey slightly irrorated with red-brown ; antemedial line strong, whitish, defined on inner side with red-brown below submedian fold, very oblique and slightly sinuous, angled outwards above i
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