434 NOCTTTIDJD. 



vein 2 dark brown thickly irrorated with yellow, the submedian 

 interspace to subterminal line and the apical area to vein 4 deep 

 crimson-red, the inner area and terminal area below vein 4 brownish 

 suffused with leaden grey, the base of median nervure and vein ] 

 just beyond the antemedial line with slight white streaks; .ante- 

 medial line yellow, obliquely curved, diffused on costal area, from 

 cell to inner margin, defined on each side by dark brown and with 

 whitish line before it from cell to vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, blackish with white annuli, the former round, its centre 

 irregularly denned by yellow, the latter oblique, its upper extremity 

 produced and its lower extending to well below the cell, its centre 

 defined by blue-white ; post-medial line double, yellow, very slightly 

 sinuous, obliquely incurved from costa to vein 4 where it is strongly 

 angled outwards, then incurved, below submedian fold defined by 

 dark brown on inner side and with the outer line whitish ; the 

 apical area with leaden-grey patch from below costa to below 

 vein 6 with whitish mark below costa, dentate mark below vein 7 

 and slight streak below vein 6 ; a somewhat diffused waved whitish 

 snbterminal line from below vein 4 to inner margin ; a slight some- 

 what sinuous yellow line just before term en which is deep chocolate- 

 red ; cilia black- brown with a slight yellowish line at base. Hind 

 wing deep orange ; a small black discoidal spot ; a very irregular 

 subterminal band between veins 6 and 1, its outer edge dentate, its 

 inner edge angled outwards at vein 5, then strongly incurved. 

 Underside of fore wing orange-yellow, the orbicular and reniform 

 black, a large black-brown patch in submedian interspace below 

 middle of cell and base of vein 2, the apical area suffused with 

 crimson, a slight crimson postmedial line between veins 4 and 2 

 and traces of a waved subterminal line from costa to vein 2; 

 hind wing with black discoidal spot, the apical area suffused with 

 crimson bounded on inner side by the reddish postmedial line, which 

 is angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then 

 incurved and brownish. 



Hah. Sikhim (Russell, Atkinson, Lidderdale, Mbller), 7 6 , 1 ? 

 type. Exp. 56-60 millim. 



4907. Seudyra mandarina. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 10.) 



Scudyra mandarin a, Leech, Entoni. xxiii. p. 110 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 

 Ilet. p. 38. 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish ochreous ; 

 pectus and legs ochreous yellow, the tibia? and tarsi irrorated with 

 brown ; abdomen orange dorsally irrorated with black, the crests 

 black. Fore wing with the costal half to postmedial line, extending 

 to just below cell and vein 2, dark brown thickly irrorated with 

 ochreous, the median nervure and veins rising from it with pale 

 streaks, the inner and terminal areas purple plum-colour with 

 deep red patches before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial 

 lines, the apical area red to vein 4 with a plum-coloured patch at 

 middle ; antemedial line obsolete on costal area, double and erect 



