432 NOCTUID^. 



*4904. Seudyra flavida. (Plate CXLYI. fig. 9.) 

 Seudi/ra flavida, Leech, Entom. sxiii. p. 110 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. 



p. as. 



c? . Head and thorax purplish blacli ; pectus and legs orange, 

 tibiae and tarsi with some fuscous scales ; abdomen orange with 

 slight dorsal series of fuscous points. Fore wing whitish tinged 

 with ochreous and strongly irrorated with black, the inner area 

 chocolate-red with leaden fascia at base, bands before the ante- 

 medial and bej'ond the postmedial fulvous lines and large patch 

 between them, the outer edge rounded to before tornus ; orbicular 

 elliptical, reniform very large, both blackish edged wuth white with 

 ochreous annuli and leaden centres ; the postmedial line fulvous de- 

 fined by black on inner side, incurved from costa to vein 4 where it is 

 angled, then oblique and sinuous ; a large apical chocolate-red patch 

 with purplish leaden centre defined on its outer edge by an obscure 

 dentate white line ; a terminal series of dark striae. Hind wing 

 orange with slight discoidal spot and traces of irregular subterminal 

 line. Underside of fore wing orange, the patch on inner area, 

 orbicular and reniform black, the apical patch red ; hind w^ing with 

 the subterminal line red, waved, incurved at vein 6, angled out- 

 wards at vein 4, and with diffused red beyond it. 



Hub. W. Chixa, Cbang-yang (Pratt), 1^,1$ type, Moupiu 

 {Krichtldorff ), 16, Wa-ssu-kou, 1 S, Chow-pin-sa, 1 J, Chia- 

 kou-ho (Pratt), 1 J • Exji. 66 millim. 



4905. Seudyra longipennis. 



Catocah. longipennis, Wlk. xxxiii. 931 (1865); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. 

 p. 19, pi. ii'2. f. 8; Huipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 150; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 

 Met. p. 38. 



(S . Head and thorax dark chocolate red-brown with a silvery blue 

 gloss ; tegulae with yellow and red line at base ; pectus and legs 

 orange-yellow, the fore tibiae irrorated with red and fringed with 

 greyish hair; abdomen orange with the dorsal crests black. Fore 

 wing with the costal half to postmedial line, median nervure and 

 vein 2, and thence obliquely to termen at vein 4 and tornus yellow 

 irrorated with chocolate-red, the area below the cell to postmedial 

 line deep chocolate-red, the inner area from above vein 1 leaden 

 grey ; the apical area chocolate-red to vein 5 with leaden-grey patch 

 from below costa to below vein 6 ; antemedial line obsolete on costal 

 half, then yellow, oblique to below vein 1, with leaden-grey band 

 on inner side and defined by black on outer ; orbicular small, 

 elongate elliptical with yellow centre defined by reddish scales with 

 small reddish spot towards outer edge and ill-defined ochreous 

 annulus ; reniform very large, with yellowish centre defined by 

 chocolate-red rather broken up into spots, a reddish lunule at centre 

 and some silvery suffusion on the veins, and with ill-defined ochreous 

 annulus ; postmedial line indistinct, double, filled iu with yellowish 



