444 NOCTTTID^. 



4918. Protoseiidyra seciiiida. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 14.) 

 Caradrina sccunda, Leech, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1900, p. 121. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; tarsi 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown, 

 the ventral surface yellowish, the dorsal crest metallic blackish. 

 Pore wing dull red irrorated with white ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 waved, angled outwards on subcostal and median nervures ; clavi- 

 tbrm and orbicular absent ; reniform dull red, ill-defined, with 

 narrow blackish lunule in centre ; medial line brownish, excurved 

 beyond the cell, then incurved and somewhat dentate, the area 

 beyond it pale greyish to the postmedial line with white streaks 

 on veins 6 and 5 ; postmedial line fine, double filled in with white, 

 excurved from costa to vein 5, then incurved and minutely waved, 

 crossed by a slight red streak at vein 5 ; an indistinct waved sub- 

 terminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; a faint reddish discoidal S])ot ; traces of a curved 

 postmedial line ; two red striae filled in with whitish on inner area 

 above tornus which is tinged with yellow ; a fine reddish terminal 

 line. Underside ochreous whitish ; fore wing with the basal half 

 and postmedial area tinged with dull red, an ill-defined dark dis- 

 coidal spot ; hind wing with reddish discoidal spot and traces of a 

 sinuous subterminal line. 



Hah. W. China, Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 (S , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 

 2 c? type. Exp. 34-46 miilim. 



4919. Protoseudyra flava. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 15.) 

 Caradrina jlava, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 121. 



S . Head and thorax clothed with greyish-white and brown 

 hair; palpi white below at base ; pectus white; tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen dorsally banded brown and whitish, ventrally 

 yellowish, the dorsal crest metallic. Fore wing chocolate-red 

 irrorated with white scales and hair except on basal area from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double fiUed in with greyish, 

 obli(jue, angled outwards on medi in nervui-e; claviform and orbi- 

 cular absent ; reniform a narrow greyish lunule defined by choco- 

 late-brown and with a deep chocolate lunule on its inner side, the 

 veins beyond the cell streaked with white ; an indistinct medial 

 line excurved beyond the cell, then incurved and approximated tc 

 the postmedial line, which is double filled in with wJjitish, excurvec 

 from costa to vein 5, then oblique, slightly waved and incurveii 

 between veins 3 and 1, crossed by a blood-red streak on vein 5 ; a 

 red patch on apical part of costa with the indistinct waved sub- 

 terminal line arising from it, defined on inner side by slight red 

 marks ; a terminal series of small red lunules. Hind wing yellow ; 

 some brown liair along vein 1 which is crossed by two brown striae 

 filled in with whitish above tornus which is reddish ; a fine orange 

 terminal line ; cilia pale brownish with a whitish line through 



