seudyra. 437 



4910. Seudyra interposita, n. sp. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 11.) 



2 . Head and thorax greyish ochreous mixed with some black, 

 the metathorax with some metallic blue scales ; palpi blade, the 

 extremities of the joints white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen orange, 

 the last with dorsal series of black spots. Fore wing with the 

 costal half to postmedial line and thence obliquely to termen above 

 tornus white irrorated with fuscous-brown scales except before the 

 postmedial line from below costa to vein 3, the inner and apical 

 areas deep chocolate-red with patches of violaceous grey on inner 

 medial area and below apex ; subbasal line represented by faint 

 double oblique black strife from costa ; a black point in cell before 

 the antemedial line, which is obsolete to median nervure, then 

 double, ochreous filled in with plum-colour, erect ; orbicular and 

 reniform with white annuli, their centres irrorated with black and 

 a few silvery scales, the former round, the latter oblique elliptical ; 

 postmedial line double, ochreous white, filled in with plum-colour 

 towards inner margin, obliquely incurved from costa to vein 4 near 

 subterminal line, incurved below vein 2 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish, waved, angled inwards in discal fold, obsolete towards 

 costa ; a terminal series of black stria) slightly defined on inner 

 side by white ; cilia blackish with fine ochreous white lines at base 

 and middle. Hind wing orange ; a small black discoidal spot ; a 

 terminal black band broadly rounded on apical area and quadrately 

 dilated on tornal area ; cilia white at tips, yellow towards tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing with the stigmata black-brown with white 

 in cell before and between them and broad oblique white band 

 beyond them with sinuous outer edge ; hind wing with the terminal 

 band greyer ending in a blackish patch in submedian interspace. 

 Hdb. W. China, Chin-fu-sau (Maw), 1 J type. Ea-£>. 4S millim. 



4911. Seudyra transiens. 



Eusemia transiens, Wlk. vii. 1588 (1856) ; Hiupsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 155; 



Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 38. 

 Phesgorista catocaloides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 87 (1862). 

 Agarista mgoceroides, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 107. f. 10 (1878). 

 Seudyra dissimilis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Sue. 18'JO, p. 174. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; tegulae with 

 diffused blackish medial line ; fore legs grey mixed with brown ; 

 pectus and mid and hind legs orange-yellow, the mid tibiae irrorated 

 with brown ; abdomen orange-yellow, the dorsal crests and ex- 

 tremity black. Fore wing dark brown irrorated with greyish 

 ochreous on basal area, on costal area to postmedial line, on the 

 veins and on terminal area above tornus ; a more or less developed 

 oblique diffused white band beyond the cell from costa to vein 2, 

 sometimes connected with a patch at tornus ; a subbasal deep 

 crimson-red patch above vein 1 with smaller patch below it on 

 inner margin ; antemedial line indistinct, ochreous, oblique from 

 costa to below cell, then erect, defined on each side by crimson red 



