from China , Japan, and Corea. 81 



Hydrelia pictaria. 



Somatina (?) pictaria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 645. 



Agnibesa pictaria, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 256 (1887). 



Hydrelia pictaria, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 415 (1895). 



I received two male specimens from Ta-chien-lu and a 

 female from Wa-shan, all taken in July. 



Distribution. Sikhim (Hampsori) ; Western China. 



Hydrelia electaria f sp. n. ?1^HL^J^ 



Pale straw-yellow, traversed by obscure irregular lines. 

 Basal area and costal portion of median third of primaries 

 purplish, tinged with greyish ; the basal area limited by a 

 blackish curved line, edged with ferruginous, encloses an 

 irregular patch of the ground-colour, and is traversed by an 

 angulated blackish line ; the costa beyond the limits of the 

 basal patch is of the ground-colour, partially suffused with 

 purplish ; outer third ferruginous, merging into yellowish on 

 apical area and towards inner margin, is limited by a lunu- 

 lated blackish line and traversed by an obscure purplish-grey 

 band ; submarginal line represented by some blackish lunules, 

 preceded by yellowish dots towards costa; a conspicuous black 

 spot between the second and third median nervules and a 

 smaller one in the space below. Secondaries have the abdo- 

 minal margin tinged with ferruginous ; outer third, which is 

 of the ground-colour, merging into ferruginous towards the 

 lunulated blackish limiting line, encloses a transverse series 

 of greyish-ringed spots of the ground-colour, and is traversed 

 by a tapered purplish-grey band ; discal dot black. Fringes 

 of the ground-colour with a brownish line at their base. 

 Under surface pale whity brown : primaries have some fuscous 

 marks on basal area and a conspicuous patch of the same 

 colour on costal portion of median third ; beyond there is a 

 diffuse, fuscous, transverse band, followed by a blackish spot 

 near apex, and a larger one between second and third median 

 nervules : secondaries have a black discal dot, a fuscous 

 transverse line, and a fuscous band, the latter traversed by a 

 diffuse line of the ground-colour. 



Expanse 35 millim. 



One female specimen from Moupin : July. 



Hob. Western China. 



Hydrelia obliterata. 



rlufn. Berl. Mag. iv. p. 

 Hiibn. Geom. pi. xi. fig. 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 6. Vol. xx. 



Geometra obliterata, Hufn. Berl. Mag. iv. p. 608 (1767). 

 Geometra hepararia, Hiibn. Geom. pi. xi. fig. 58. 



