SEUDYRA. 435 



below the cell ; orbicular and reiiiform large with dark chocolate 

 centres suffused with violaceous white and slight ochreous annuli, 

 the former elongate elliptical, tlie latter oi)lique elliptical and 

 extending to below cell ; postmedial lino double, obliquely incurved 

 from costa to vein 4 where it is angled outwards, oblique and 

 slightly waved to vein 2, tlien more erect ; faint traces of a diffused 

 curved white subterminal line ; a line oclireous line just before 

 termen ; cilia reddish brown. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a large 

 round black discoidal spot; tlie submedian interspace clothed with 

 black hair to the very irregular black subterminal band, expanding 

 into patches below veins 6 and 2 and excurved at middle. Under- 

 side of fore wing orange-yellow with slight black streak in base of 

 cell, the orbicular, reniform, and a patch below middle of cell and 

 base of vein 2 black, the apical area slightly suffused with red 

 beyond the diffused reddish postmedial line from below costa to 

 vein 2 ; hind wing with the subterminal band much narrower, from 

 costa to vein 2. 



Hah. W. China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 c5' type. E.vj). 50 millim. 



B. Fore, wing witli tlie apex not produced, the termen much 

 lebS obliquelj- curved. 

 a. Both wings witli the teruien not crenuUite. 



ciK Hind wing with quadrate blackish spot above tornui? 



separate from the terminal band venu^ia. 



i'. Hind wing without quadrate black spot above tornus. 



«"-. Hind wing with the terminal band expandiug into 



a large quadrate patch above tornus. 



a3. Fore wing with the costal area and cell suffused 



with white to postmedial line and thence 



obliquely to termen above tornus hifcrpusita. 



ti^. Fore wing without white suffusion bala. 



I/-. Hind wing with the terminal band not expanding 

 into a large quadrate patch above tornus. 

 «3. Hind wing on underside with the dark terminal 



band extending on costa to middle /raiixie/ig. 



l^. Hind wing on nnderside with the dark terminal 



band not extending to middle of costa siifkitL 



lit. 



4908. Seudyra veiiusta. 



Seudyra vcnusfa, Leecii, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 614, pi. :?1. f. ■_' ; Kirbj, Cat. 

 Lep. Het. p. 38. 



Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and white hair; 

 pectus and legs mostly white; abdomen orange with the dorsal 

 crests black. Fore wing whitish irrorated with black-brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, black, irrorated with white, the inner 

 area with a leaden plum-coloured patch with fiery-red at each 

 extremity extending from near base to near tornus, traversed by the 

 pale ante- and postmedial lines, the former double, the inner line 

 excurved at vein 1, the outer defined by black-brown on outer side, 

 the latter double, incurved from costa to vein 4, excurved to vein 2, 

 then incurved and defined on inner side by black-brown ; a largo 

 apical black patch with fiery-red patch on it and leaden spots with 



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