OPSYRA. 



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tlu-m. Underside of fore wing whiti.'sh, the basal and costal areas 

 suffused with yellow, a reddish discoidal spot and bisinuate post- 

 medial Hue with some reddish suffusion beyond it ; hind wini^ 

 yellow with reddish discoidal spot, minutely waved postmedial line 

 with the interspaces beyond it whitish, and terminal series of small 

 red lunulas. 



Hah. C. Chixa, Tchang (J/rs. /'/■««), 1 J type. Exp. r32 millira. 



Genus OPSYRA, nov. 

 Type, 0. chulcoela. 

 ■ Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint renchino; 

 about to vertex of head and luodei-ately IVniged with scales in front, the 3rd 

 short, porrect ; f'rons smooth ; eyes large, round; antennae of male niiiuitely 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests of very long spatulate scales, the patagia fringed with long 

 rough scales at extremity ; tibia? fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen with 

 large ci'e^t at base only. Fore wing witli the apex rounded, the termeu evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins o and .5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole ; 11 from cell. 

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

 niiddle of discocellulars ; (>, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



4920. Opsyra clialcoela. 



Calh/na chulcoela, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. xiv. p. 208 (1902). 



Head and tegula? yellow ; palpi red-brown with a few white 

 scales; Irons with lateral brown spots; antennae brown; thorax 

 white, the scales at end of patagia and metathoracie crest yellow ; 

 pectus ochreous white ; legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fulvous yellow, the base and ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing golden olive-brown, the costal area chocolate-brown 

 irrorated with silvery blue, the inner area and the terminal area 

 except at apex pale brassy yellow with an olive tinge ; a slight 

 silvery blue line from base of costa, bent outAvards above vein 1, 



Fig. 212. — Optyijru clialcoda, J. }. 



followed by a yellow striga from below costa; anferaedial line 

 slight, silvery blue, excurved, angled inwards in submedian fold 

 and ending at vein 1 ; claviform represented by a slight silvery 

 blue mark beyond its extremity; orbicular absent ; reniform with 

 yellowish-white annulus and silvery white spot in centre, round ; 

 an oblique silvery blue shade from costa to above reniform ; post- 

 medial line silvery blue and strongly bent outwards below costa, 



