436 NOCTTTID-E. 



whitish marks on them above vein 5 and below 4 ; a waved whitish 

 line close to termen. Hind wing orange with black discoidal spot; 

 a black-brown terminal patch from costa to vein 2, angled inwards 

 in discal fold, then narrow and dentate ; a large spot above tomus. 

 Underside of fore wing white ; the orbicular, reniform, a large 

 patch on middle of inner area, and suffusion beyond the posfmedial 

 line black ; hind wing with the dark apical area suffused with 

 yellow. 



Hah. Cokea, Gensan (Leech), 1 J tvpe ; C. Chixa, Chang-yang 

 (Pratt), 2 $ ; W. China, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 2 j . Exp. 42-50 

 millim. 



4909. Seudyra bala. ( Plate CXLYI. fig. 11.) 



1'lueqorista bala, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 795; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 156 ; Kirby, Oat. Lep. Het. p. 38. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous brown slightly mixed with grey 

 hair ; pectus and legs orange, the fore legs brown and grey and 

 the mid and hind tarsi irrorated with brown ; abdomen orange 

 with dorsal series of black bands. Fore wing fuscous brown irro- 

 rated with greyish ochreous except on inner and apical areas, the 

 irroration on costa whitish, the inner area with chocolate-red 

 patches near base and towards tornus, the latter round and defined 

 by white ; the area below median nervure and the apical area 

 suffused with chocolate ; antemedial line obsolete on costal half, 

 below the cell indistinct, greyish ochreous, erect ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, dark brown with slight greyish ochreous aunuli, 

 the former round, the latter oblique elliptical and extending to 

 well below cell ; postmedial line indistinct, greyish, obliquely in- 

 curved from costa to vein 4, excurved to vein 2, then bent inwards 

 to below end of cell and incurved to inner margin, a faint oblique 

 straight line beyond it from costa to vein 4 : a faint curved sub- 

 terminal whitish line ; cilia dark brown with a slight greyish line 

 at base. Hind wing orange ; some blackish hair at base of 

 submedian fold ; a small black discoidal spot, a broad black-brown 

 terminal band with sinuous inner edge, expanding at costa to 

 middle, strongly excurved at middle and expanding on inner area 

 leaving the inner margin narrowly orange ; cilia brown at base, 

 white at tips. Underside of fore wing black-brown with white 

 streak below base of costa, a large wedge-shaped white patch in cell 

 with the round blackish orbicular on it ; an oblique white band 

 beyond the cell with its lower extremity angled inwards at vein 2 ; 

 a white patch at tornus ; hind wing with diffused brown terminal 

 band from apex to vein 2, expanding at costa to middle, and large 

 black spot above tornus. 



$ . Abdomen with very large anal tuft. 



Hub. Sikhim, 7000-10,000' (Atkinson, Lidderdale, Holler, 

 Dudgeon), 1 <S , 6 $ type. Exp. 46-50 millim. 



