438 



NOCTXJtD^. 



from cell to inner margin and with leaden-grey band before it ; the 

 medial area with crimson-red patch below the cell and leaden-grey 

 patch on inner margin ; orbicular and reniform very large, defined 

 by ochreous, the former filled in with crimson, round, the latter 

 with leaden-grey centre and crimson annulus, oblique elliptical and 

 extending to well below cell ; postmedial line ochr«ous, obliquely 

 incurved from costa to vein 4, then excurved and slightly dentate 

 to vein 2, then incurved and defined by crimson on each side 

 followed by a leaden-grey patch, a similar indistinct line beyond it, 

 below vein 2 excurved to tornus and with crimson patch before it ; 

 the terminal area deep crimson-red with faint waved whitish sub- 

 terminal line interrupted at middle and with leaden-grey patches 

 before it above and below vein G and below vein 4 ; a slight some- 

 what sinuous whitish line just before termen ; cilia black-brown 

 mixed with some grey and with slight pale line at base. Hind 



Fig. 298. — Seudyra trandens, ,^ . 



X 



wing orange- yellow, the terminal area broadly black-brown Avith 

 sinuous inner edge expanding on costal area to before middle. 

 Underside of fore wing black-brown with triangular white patch 

 in base of coll, rather oblique bar across the cell towards extremity 

 somewhat constricted at middle, oblique white band beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 2, somewhat constricted at middle and with its 

 lower extremity curved inwards, and spot on termen above tornus. 

 Bab. SiKHiM (Atkinson, Lidderdale, Molhr), 5 c? > 1 S ; Assam, 

 Khasis, Nagas ; Bukma, Mandalay, 1 (S type dissimilis, Toungoo 

 (de Niceville), 1 J ; Malacca, Helangor (Robinson), 1 $ ; Bokneo, 

 Sarawak (Wallace), 1 J ; Java (Horsfield)), 2 J , 3 5 type; Bali 

 (Doherty), 1 $ . E.vj). 38-58 millim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. E.I. Co. ii. p. 290, pi. 13. ff. 5, 5a; Piepers, Tijd. v. 

 Eut. xlviii. p. 199, pi. vii. f. 7. 



Black, the 1st and 11th somites yellow -with black spots ; lateral 

 tufts of blue hairs and scattered long black hairs. Pood-plant, 

 " Galing " (Vitis trifolia). 12. 



4912. Seudyra subalba. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 12.) 



Seudyra suhalha, Leech, Eiitom. xxiii. p. 110 (1890); Kirby, Cat. Lep. 

 Het.p. 38. 



Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown mixed with some white 

 hair ; palpi fringed with white hair at base ; pectus and legs 

 orange, the fore tibise and tarsi white mixed with dark brown, 



