438 



noctuidj:. 



from cell to inner margin and with leaden-grey band before it ; the 

 medial area with crimson-red patch below the cell and leaden-grey 

 patch on inner margin ; orbicular and reniform very large, defined 

 by ochreous, the former filled in with crimson, round, the latter 

 with leaden-grey centre and crimson annulus, oblique elliptical and 

 extending to well below cell ; postmedial line ochreous, obliquely 

 incurved from costa to vein 4, then excurved and slightly dentate 

 to vein 2, then incurved and defined by crimson on each side 

 followed by a leaden-grey patch, a similar indistinct line beyond it, 

 below vein 2 excurved to tornus and with crimson patch before it ; 

 the terminal area deep crimson-red with faint waved whitish sub- 

 terminal line interrupted at middle and with leaden-grey patches 

 before it above and below vein G and below vein 4 : a slight some- 

 what sinuous whitish line just before termen ; cilia black-brown 

 mixed with some grey and with slight pale line at base. Hind 



Seudyra transiens, rf . 



wing orange-yellow, the terminal area broadly black-brown with 

 sinuous inner edge expanding on costal area to before middle. 

 Underside of fore wing black-brown with triangular white patch 

 in base of cell, rather oblique bar across the cell towards extremity 

 somewhat constricted at middle, oblique white band beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 2, somewhat constricted at middle and with its 

 lower extremity curved inwards, and spot on termen above tornus. 



Bab. Sikhim (Atkinson, Lidderdale, Holler), 5 <$ , 1 $ ; Assam, 

 Khasis, Nagas ; Bubma, Mandalay, 1 J type dissimilis, Toungoo 

 (de JSlceville), 1 J : Malacca, Selangor (Robinson), 1 5 ; Bobneo, 

 Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 tf ; Java (Horsfield)), 2 (J,3 $ type ; Bali 

 (Doherty), 1 $ . Exp. 38-58 millim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. E.I. Co. ii. p. 290, pi. 13. ff. 5, 5a; Piepers, Tijd. v. 

 Ent. xlviii. p. 199, pi. vii. f. 7. 



Black, the 1st and 11th somites yellow with black spots ; lateral 

 tufts of blue hairs and scattered long black hairs. Food-plant, 

 " Galing " (Vitis trifolia). 12. 



4912. Seudyra subalba. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 12.) 



Seudyra subalba, Leech, Entoin. xsiii. p. 110 (1S90); Kirby, Cat. Lep. 

 Het. p. 38. 



Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown mixed with some white 

 hair ; palpi fringed with white hair at base ; pectus and legs 

 orange, the fore tibia? and tarsi white mixed with dark brown, 





