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them. Underside of fore wing whitish, the basal and costal areas 

 suffused with yellow, a reddish discoidal spot and bisinuate post- 

 medial line with some reddish suffusion beyond it ; hind wing 

 yellow with reddish discoidal spot, minutely waved postmedial line 

 with the interspaces beyond it whitish, and terminal series of small 

 red lumiles. 



Hob. C. China, Ichang {Mrs. Pratt), 1 J type. Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus OPSYRA, nov. 



Type, <K chalcoela. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 abort, porrect ; f'rons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male minutely 

 ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests of very long spatulate scales, the patagia fringed with long 

 rough scales at extremity ; tibia; fringed with rather long hair; abdomen with 

 large crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins ."> and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areule ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below- 

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

 cell near base only. 



4920. Opsyra chalcoela. 



Culli/na chalcoela, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. xiv. p. 208 (1902). 



Head and tegulae yellow; palpi red-brown with a few white 

 scales; frons with lateral brown spots; antennas brown; thorax 

 white, the scales at end of patagia and nietathoracic crest yellow ; 

 pectus ochreous white ; legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fulvous yellow, the base and ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing golden olive-brown, the costal area chocolate-brown 

 irrorated with silvery blue, the inner area and the terminal area 

 except at apex pale brassy yellow with an olive tinge ; a slight 

 silvery blue line from base of costa, bent outwards above vein 1, 



Fig. 212. — Opsyra chalcoela, <$ . \. 



followed by a yellow striga from below costa ; antemedial line 

 slight, silvery blue, excurved, angled inwards in submedian fold 

 and ending at vein 1 ; claviform represented by a slight silvery 

 blue mark beyond its extremity ; orbicular absent ; reniform with 

 vellowish-white annulus and silvery white spot in centre, round ; 

 an oblique silvery blue shade from costa to above reniform ; post- 

 medial line silvery blue and strongly bent outwards below costa, 



