of Ileteroceroiis Lepidojjtera. 85 



hairs, interspersed above with a few ochreous red and white 

 hairs ; tarsi clothed with very short tufted black hairs. 



Exp. 1 inch. 



Hd>. Shanghai. In coll. W. B. Pryer and F. Moore. 



Fam. AgaristidsB. 



Seudyra suhflava. 



Upperside — fore wing with the apex and a broad band 

 along hind margin dark chestnut-brown, washed with violet, 

 the former traversed by a median longitudinal red-pointed 

 black streak, and crossed by a whitish-speckled sinuous line ; 

 intermediate space from the base ochreous grey, profusely 

 speckled with dark brown, the veins grey -lined ; a transverse 

 subbasal and a double discal distorted recurved ochreous-grey 

 line ; a small orbicular and large reniform pale-bordered 

 spot ; a marginal row of black lunular spots : hind wing dark 

 golden yellow, with a marginal golden-brown irregular- bor- 

 dered band, which is broken at anal angle and ascends some 

 distance upwards, the band traversed by a narrow yellow 

 marginal lunular line ; a small black spot in middle of cell ; 

 cilia grey. Thorax chestnut-brown, grey-speckled. Abdo- 

 men and legs golden yellow, with a short basal dorsal brown 

 tuft. Underside pale golden yellow ; both wings with a small 

 black spot in the middle of the cell, and the fore wing with a 

 larger spot at end of cell 5 fore wing also with a pale narrow 

 chestnut-brown decreasing band curving across outer mar- 

 gin from apex ; hind wing with a much less distinct and 

 smaller band. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



Hah. Snowy valley. Province Chekiang. In coll. W. B. 

 Pryer. 



This species is most nearly allied to S. venosa, from Dar- 

 jiling, and may be distinguished by the entirely different 

 underside. 



Fam. Zygaenidae. 



Pkyeria, n. gen. 



Fore wing long, narrow, apex produced, outer margin very 

 oblique ; costal vein moderately stout, extending to two thirds 

 of the wing ; subcostal slender, five-branched, first branch 

 arising from before the end of the cell and terminating before 

 the apex, second and fifth branches at end of cell, third and 

 fourth very short, emitted from near end of second at apex ; 



