HYDRCECIA. 49 



latter large ; medial line red, oblique from costa to reniform, 

 inwardly oblique below the cell and slightly angled outwards in 

 submedian fold ; postmedial line double filled in with yellow, the 

 inner line indistinct, red, minutely waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 5, then oblique and slightly excurved at 

 submedian fold, some yellow points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, a 

 yellow patch beyond it at apex ; a fine brown terminal line. Hind 

 wing red-brown with a greyish tinge ; the underside whitish tinged 

 with red-brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. Japan, Tokio (Maries), 1 § , Yokohama (Jonas, Fryer), 

 2 cf , 2 2 type. Exp. 38-56 millim. 



4351. Hydrcecia basalipunctata. 



Gortyna basalipunctata, Grass. Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 341 (1888) ; Huipsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 171 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187. 

 Gortyna intermixta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 480, pi. 19. f. 11. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous ; tegulae and 

 patagia yellow mixed with fiery red and edged with red-brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous suffused w 7 ith red-brown. Fore wing yellow 

 thickly irrorated with fiery red, the antemedial area towards costa 

 and inner margin and the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; 

 subbasal line fiery red defined by yellow on outer side, waved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinctly double, red-brown 

 filled in with yellow, somewhat inwardly oblique from cell to above 

 vein 1 and strongly bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 large, defined by red-brown and extending to cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform yellow irrorated with red and defined by brown, the 

 former round, the latter rather quadrate with its centre defined by 

 red; medial line red-brown, oblique from costa to median nervure, 

 inwardly oblique and somewhat sinuous from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line red-brown, double and filled in with 

 yellow towards costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then obliquely curved to inner margin, some slight yellowish 

 points beyond it on costa; an indistinct brown subterminal line, 

 incurved below costa, then waved, a yellow patch irrorated with 

 red beyond it at apex ; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing- 

 pale yellow suffused with red-brown especially on terminal area; 

 traces of a sinuous postmedial line ; a fine brown terminal line ; 

 the underside with the costal and terminal areas tinged and 

 irrorated with red-brown, a brown postmedial line slightly excurved 

 below costa. 



Bab. E. Siberia, Ussuri, 1 $ * Japan, Hakodate (Leech), 1 $ , 

 Oiwake (Pryer), 1 J ; Assam, Khasis (Badgley), 1 cS , 1 2 type 

 intermixta. Exp. 34-4S millim. 



