GELASTOCERA.—BESSARA. 585 
purplish crimson; a slight curved brownish subbasal line from 
costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brownish, excurved below 
costa and bent outwards at median nervure; a brownish point in 
middle of cell and ill-defined fuscous discoidal lunule ; postmedial 
line indistinct, dark, excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold 
and below vein +; an indistinct punctiform blackish subterminal 
line, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middie. Hind wing 
ochreous white, the terminal area faintly tinged with brown and 
with traces ef purplish on termen from apex to vein 2; the under- 
side with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with 
purplish red. 
Hab. Ki. Stperta, Amurland, Ussuri; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 
£o,2 2. Hep. 30) millim. 
Genus BESSARA. type 
Bessara, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vi. p. 180 (1862)... quadratipennis. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect; eyes large, round ; 
antennz of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with rough hair and 
scales mixed and without distinct erests; tibiz fringed with long hair; 
abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing short and broad, the costa 
nearly straight, the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly 
curved, nearly erect and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 
6 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 fully developed 
from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
6995, Bessara quadratipennis. 
Bessara quadratipennis, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vi. p. 181 (1862) ; 
Swinb. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. i. p. 98, pl. iit. f. 17. 
6. Head and thorax red-brown tinged with greyish; pectus 
whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown, the ventral 
surface whitish. Fore wing grey suffused and thickly irrorated 
with red-brown; traces of an oblique waved antemedial line; a 
blackish discoidal point; postmedial line indistinct, oblique to vein 
6, then waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4; a faint 
waved whitish subterminal line defined on inner side by small 
dentate brown marks; cilia whitish intersected with brown at the 
