SEUDYRA.. 435 



below the cell ; orbicular and reniforin large with dark chocolate 

 centres suffused with violaceous white and slight ochreous animli, 

 the former elongate elliptical, the latter oblique elliptical and 

 extending to below cell ; postmedial line double, obliquely incurved 

 from costa to vein 4 where it is angled outwards, oblique and 

 slightly waved to vein 2, then more erect ; faint traces of a diffused 

 curved white subterminal line ; a fine ochreous line just before 

 termen ; cilia reddish brown. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a large 

 round black discoidal spot; the submedian interspace clothed with 

 black hair to the very irregular black subterminal band, expanding 

 into patches below veins 6 and 2 and excurved at middle. Under- 

 side of fore wing orange-yellow with slight black streak in base of 

 cell, the orbicular, reniform, and a patch below middle of cell and 

 base of vein 2 black, the apical area slightly suffused with red 

 beyond the diffused reddish postmedial line from below costa to 

 vein 2 ; hind wing with the subterminal band much narrower, from 

 costa to vein 2. 



Hab. W. China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 J type. Exp. 50 millim. 



B. Fore wing with the apex not produced, the termen much 

 less obliquely curved. 

 a. Both wings with the termen not erenulate. 



a 1 . Hind wing with quadrate blackish spot above tornus 



separate from the terminal band venusta. 



I) 1 . Hind wing without quadrate black spot above tornus. 



« 2 . Hind wing with the terminal band expanding into 



a large quadrate patch above tornus. 



a 3 . Fore wing with the costal area and cell suffused 



with white to postmedial line and thence 



obliquely to termen above tornus interposita. 



fo. Fore wing without white suffusion bala. 



b-. Hind wing with the terminal band not expanding 

 into a large quadrate patch above tornus. 

 rt 3 . Hind wing on underside with the dark terminal 



band extending on costa to middle tranmiens. 



I) 3 . Hind wing on underside with the dark terminal 



band not extending to middle of costa subalba. 



4908. Seudyra venusta. 



Seudyra venusta, Leech, P. Z S. 1888, p. 614, pi. 31. f. 2; Kirby, Cat. 

 Lep. Het. p. 38. 



Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and white hair ; 

 pectus and legs mostly while; abdomen orange with the dorsal 

 crests black. Fore wing whitish irrorated with black-brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, black, irrorated with white, the inner 

 area with a leaden plum-coloured patch with fiery-red at each 

 extremity extending from near base to near tornus, traversed by the 

 pale ante- and postmedial lines, the former double, the inner line 

 excurved at vein 1, the outer defined by black-brown on outer side, 

 the latter double, incurved from costa to vein 4, excurved to vein 2, 

 then incurved and defined on inner side by black-brown : a large 

 apical black patch with fiery-red patch on it and leaden spots with 



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