from Chinttj Japan, and Corea. 81 



Jlydrelia pictaria. 



Somntina (?) pictaria, Mnon^, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1807, p. 64o. 



AgnibcMi pirfaria, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. '26Ct (1887). 



Ilydrelia pictaria, Ilampsou, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 41o (1805). 



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

 female from Wa-shan, all taken in July, 



Distribution. Sikhim (Ilainpson) ; Western China. 



Ilydrelia electaria, sp. n. 



Pale straw-yellow, traversed by obscure irregular lines. 

 Basal area and costal portion of median third of primaries 

 purjilish, 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 n)argin 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. 



Hah. Western China. 



Flydrelia obliterata. 



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

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



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