20 



Noc rrin.T:. 



rufous and irroratcd with black, a black discoidal lunule and 

 niiiitiftly \v;i\t'(l postiuodial line. 



Hah. ISiKDiM (At/cltisun, Moller, Dudgeon, Pilcher\ G 6 typo; 

 Bengal, Calcutta, 1 d . Exji. 42-46 luillira. 



Genus GORTYNA. 



Type. 



Gorh/na, Treit. S.-limett. Eur. v. (2) p. 3.30 (1825) leucosdqma. 



Helciropha, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 118 (1857) leiuostigma. 



Proboscis fully deyeloped ; palpi iij)turned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of f'rons and moderately siviled, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes 

 larfie. rounded ; antenna' oC male, typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed 

 ihiefly with scales, the pro- and metatliorax with spreading crests; tibiie 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; t) from upper angle : t) from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 fruin 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocelUdars ; 6, 7 from upp<.-r 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinate with moderate branches ending in a 

 bristle, the apex ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line black defined by grey on 



outer .side ja2)oinca. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line very indistinct excejit 



at CDsta dolia. 



4313. Gortyna japonica. 



Euplcxia japovica. Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 504, pi. 51. f. 4 (Nov. 1889). 

 Badena succhicta, Giass. Herl. eut. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 255 (.March la90); 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 175. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with greyish, 

 the tar.si ringed with white, the anal tuft more rufous. Fore wing 

 greyish suftused with dark brown, the postmedial area, except 



Fig. 3. — Gortyna japonica, J. \. 



towards costa and apex, paler ; subbasal line represented by a 

 slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line with two dark stria3 

 from costa and strongly excurved below cell ; claviform faintly 

 delined by blackish at extremity ; orbicular indistinct, pale, slightly 

 defined by brown, oblique elliptical ; reiiilorm very indi.stinctlV 

 delined by blacki.sh and with small white lunule with point 



