414 GEOMETRIES. 



B. Hind wing of male very much distorted and curled up ; the 

 underside thickly clothed with long rough scales. 



3825. Hydrelia distorta, n. sp. 



cJ . Eufous, irrorated with fuscous. Tore wing with traces of 

 antemedial line ; a speck at end of cell ; a nearly straight oblique 

 postmedial line, with traces of a chestnut line beyond it and a dark 

 patch between veins 3 and 4 ; submarginal and marginal series of 

 black specks. Hind wing with indistinct medial line and sub- 

 marginal and marginal series of black specks ; coarse red hair 

 below the cell and on vein 4, and a fuscous patch on outer area 

 below vein 2. 



Hah. Nagas, 3000 feet (Doherty). Exp. 26 milliin. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



SECT. II. (Autallacta). Fore wing with the outer margin slightly 

 angled at vein 4 ; hind wing with it more prominently angled. 



3826. Hydrelia subobliquaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 644 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3994. 



Noreia sericea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 225; id. Ill Het. vi, 

 pi. 119, fig. 8-, C. 8f S. no. 3233. 



c? . Violaceous pinkish grey ; frons rufous. Fore wing with 



three orange antemedial lines 

 angled on subcostal and median 

 nervures ; a speck at end of 

 cell ; an oblique postmedial 

 band from costa of fore wing 

 before apex to middle of inner 

 margin of hind wing, and with 

 fuscous turning to rufous and 



Hydrelia snquaria, rf . *. then ra , n S e P n its OU \ eT ed g e ' 



a waved submarginal orange 



line angled below vein 4 of hind wing ; a marginal series of black 

 specks. Underside pale. 



$ . Dark rufous brown, suffused with fuscous ; the lines and 

 band dark rufous, the band less oblique on fore wing. 



Unit. Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. 



3827. Hydrelia rhodoptera, n. sp. 



Pink, slightly suffused with grey and fuscous. Fore wing with 

 black cell-speck and traces of antemedial, medial, postmedial, and 

 submarginal pink lines most prominent at costa. Hind wing with 

 traces of medial line and two postmedial series of specks. 



lli>. Sikhim (Elwes). Exp. 32 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



3828. Hydrelia lineata, Wan-. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 365. 



cJ . Yellowish white, irrorated with rufous. Fore wing with 

 subbasal and two antemedial slightly curved orange lines ; both 



