PBOTO I.' I'VI-.A. 1 13 



Genus PR0T03EUDYRA. nov. 



'I \ pe, /'. picta. 



Proboscis t nil y developed ; palpi porred extending about the length of bead, 

 tbe L'ud joint moderately fringed with bair below, tbe 3rd short: frons with 

 rounded prominence with minute pointed corneo lat middle 



large, round; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and bair- 



ire tibiae fringed with longhair, tbe mid and 

 bind tibia moderately fringed with bair; abdomen with reiy large crest of 

 curled metal at bate only. I with tbe apex rounded, tbe 



: evenly curved and do! crenulate rein* •'; and 5 from near angle ol 

 eel] : 6 from upper angle ; '■> from 1" anastomosing with 8 to form tbe areole; 

 II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, I from angle of a tfrom 



middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 an ng with the 



cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing whitish. 



a. Hind wing mostly suffused with red picta. 



b. Hind wing . ol »uffu ed with red tecunda. 



V,. Hind wing yellow J h: 



4917. Protoseudyra picta. 



Caradrma picta, Hmpsn. Moths [nd. ii. p. 263 (1804) ; Swinb. A. M. N. H. 

 v. p. 8(1895). 



Bead and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish ; tarsi brown 

 ringed with white: abdomen yellowish tinged with rod-brown, the 

 dorsal crest metallic black. Fore wing greyish almost entirely 

 suffused with reddish brown, some whitish at base; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, double, oblique, somewhat sinuous; claviform 

 and orbicular absenl : reniform a narrow dark brown lunule with 

 some blood red at lower angleof cell ; medial line indistinct, brown, 

 faintly defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from costato 

 vein J, than incurved ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 



Fig. 211. Pi do ■ a •■ ' . \. 



indistinct, excurved from cost a to vein 5 where it is crossed by a 

 blood-red streak, then incurved, a blood-red patch beyond it on 

 of a minutely waved snbterminal line ; a fine red 

 terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with dull red except 

 on discal and terminal areas ; a large reddish discoidal spot and 

 postmedial band excurved to vein 4, then incurved and dilated : 

 tornus red. Underside of both wings whitish with large round 

 dark discoidal spots arid diffused red postmedial band; fore wing 

 with the disk suffused with brownish. 



Hob. W. Chiha, Chang-yang (Pratt), J 6,2 $; Sikuim:.\- 

 Khasis, 2 rf type. Exjp. -" 34 millim. 



