PRoios i:ri)YE.v. 44.J 



Genus PROTOSEUDYRA, nov. 



Type, P. 2)ic(a. 



Proboscis lull y developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, 

 the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair below, the .'3rd short: frons with 

 rounded prominence with minute pointed corneous process at middle; eyes 

 large, round ; anteniire of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with iiair and hair- 

 like scales and without crests; fore tibia" fringed with long hair, the mid and 

 hind tibiic moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with very large crest of 

 curled metallic scales at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termeii evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; G from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

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

 cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing whitish. 



a. Hind wing mostly suffused with red jricfa. 



b. Hind wing not suffused with red secunda. 



B. Hind wing yellow fiava. 



4917. Protoseudyra picta. 



Caradrina picta, Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 263 (181)4) ; Svvinli. A. M. N. H. 

 (6) XV. p. (5(1895). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish ; tarsi brown 

 ringed with white; abdomen yellowish tinged with red-brown, the 

 dorsal orest metallic black. Fore wing greyish almost entirely 

 suffused with reddish brown, some whitish at base ; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, double, oblique, somewhat sinuous ; claviform 

 and orbicular absent ; reniform a narrow dai'k brown lunule with 

 some blood-red at lower angle of cell ; medial line indistinct, brown, 

 faintly defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, than incurved ; post medial line double tilled in with whitish, 



Fig. 211. — Protoseudyra pictu, cJ. 



indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 5 M'here it is crossed by a 

 blood-red streak, then incurved, a blood-red patch beyond it on 

 costa ; traces of a minutely waved subterminal line ; a fine red 

 terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with dull red except 

 on disciil and terminal areas ; a large reddisli discoidal spot and 

 postmedial band excurved to vein 4, then incurved and dilated ; 

 tornus red. Underside of both wings whitish with large round 

 dark discoidal spots and diffused red postmedial band ; fore wing 

 with the disk suffused with brownish. 



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