326 GAURENA; PALIMPSESTIS. By W. Warren. 



5. Genus: ^jraiirciia Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, but like the vertex clothed with rough hairs; palpi obliquely porrect, 

 the second segjuent densely hairy beneath, the third smooth, moderately long, depressed; antennae flattened, 

 lamellate, with close fitting clavate teeth, broader in the J"; tegulae and patagia long-haired, the hairs of the 

 latter tipped with scales, forming a kind of crest; metathorax, basal, and third segments of dorsum crested; 

 pectus and femora woolly; forewing olive with pale golden yellow bands and blotches; vein 6 stalked with 7, 8; 

 vein 5 in both wings from a little below the middle of discocellular. Type G. florens Walk. Mainly an Indian 

 genus, but occurring also in China and Japan. 



florem. G. florens Walk. (49 e). Forewing dark olive, with a yellow green undertone, which shows chiefly 



in, bej'ond, and below cell; a pale golden yellow curved band 7iear base, projecting outwards between vein 1 

 and the subcostal, on both of which it is angled inwards; outer band restricted to patches on costa and inner 

 margin, interrupted between veins 6 and 2; the central space contains two groups, each of three wavy dark 

 lines, which on vein 2 in part, and along vein 1 are marked by alternate pale yellow and dark strigae, the 

 lower half of submedian interval and the inner margin below vein 1 being pale goldeii yellow; a smaller yellowish 

 white apical blotch, with 4 white dots on the veins below it; a double pale golden yellow patch at termen be- 

 tween vein,s 2 and 4; a white dot near base in submedian fold, another in place of the orbicular stigma, 

 and a large yellowish white, somewhat glossy, round spot on discocelhilar ; a row of Avhite olive-edged terminal 

 lunules; fringe yellowish olive mottled with whitish and deeper olive; hindwing olive fuscous, slightly bronzy; 

 fringe paler, beyond a dull row of pale terminal lunules. The species is recorded by Leech from W. China; in 

 Sikkim, whence it was in the first instance described, it is very common. 



florescem. G. florescens Walk. (56 a). Forewing olive brown, more imiformly dark than G. floren-'^: all the veins 



spotted with pale yellow in places between the dark lines; the subbasal band reduced to two roundish yellowish 

 white blotches, one at base of costa, the other in submedian interval; the outer band reduced to a similar blotch 

 below costa and another above vein 1 before anal angle ; the apical blotch formed of two coalescing round 

 blotches; the reniform another similar blotch; the white spot near base of submedian fold, and the orbicular 

 spot larger; the subterminal row of spots more numerous and prominent; all the larger blotches, as well as 

 the smaller terminal blotch between veins 2 and 4, clouded with sulphur yellow; the white marginal lunules 

 stronger; the fringe darker, more regularly mottled with olive yellow; hindwing olive fuscous. Found at Pu- 

 tsu-fong. W. China; like florens, common in Sikkim, N. India. 



gemelki. G. gemella Leech (56 a). Differs from florescens in the ground colour being deep bro«ni, and all the 



blotches white, that representing the orbicular stigma larger. W. China only. 



sinuatd. G. sinuata spec. nov. (= aurofasciata Leech nee Hvips.) (56 a). Intermediate between florens Walk. 



and aurofasciata Hmps., resembling the latter in having the pale marginal blotches conjoined by pale bands, 

 but the outer band instead of being straight and vertical is sinuous, oblique outwards from costa, where it is 

 not swollen into a triangle, to vein 5, then oblique inwards, edged internally by a regularly lunulate dentate 

 line to the pale anal blotch ; the apical pale blotch smaller, not reaching apex ; the yellow terminal hnuiles complete ; 

 reniform mark large and shining as in aurofasciata, preceded by a small orbicular yellow dot, asin//oreM.s, whichis 

 quite absent in aurofasciata ; the olive brown ground colour not so deep, so that the lines are less obscure; hind- 

 wing pale olive fuscous. West China: Ta-tsicn-lu, Pu-tsu-fong; several examples in the Tring Museum; also 

 one from Hainan. 



grisescem. G. grisescens Oherth. (49 e). Resembles florens in markings, but the olive green tinge becomes grey and 



silvery; the outer pale band is curved from costa to iimer margin; thoi-ax blacki.sh; underside dark fuscous 

 to subterminal line. Recorded from Ta-tsien-lu, W. China. 



argenii- G. argetitisparsa Hmps. Forewing grey dusted with black; a black-edged white spot at base below 



sparsa. jj^edj.^jj vein; a white antemedian band edged by irregularly waved black lines; a waved outer line followed 

 by a diffuse white band which forks to apex; orbicular stigma small, white, with black margins; reniform large 

 and round, with a black edged white band running from it to inner margin, internally dentate ; a few scattered 

 submarginal white specks ; an irregular patch at anal angle; a marginal series of white lunules; hindwing fuscous, 

 with traces towards inner margin of outer and subterminal lines. Found in Yatong, Tibet. 



6. Genus: ]*alii]i|».sesii»4 Hbn. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; antennae thick, lamellate; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment 

 hairy, third short; abdomen smooth; eyes glabrous; forewing with vein 5 from middle of discocellular; vein 6 

 stalked with 7, 8; 9, 10 stalked; 8 and 9 anastomosing to form the areole; in hindwing vein 5 from above 



