HYBRELIA. VENTJSIA. 415 



wings with a straight oblique medial orange line ; outer area with 

 three waved orange lines, and the veins streaked with orange. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 28 millim. 



SECT. III. (Agnibesa). Fore wing with the outer margin rounded ; 

 hind wing with it strongly crenulate. 



3829. Hydrelia plumbeolineata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax olive-brown; antennae ringed with white; 

 abdomen white. Fore wing white, with large olive-brown patch 

 on basal half of costa, crossed by five ill-defined bands of silvery 

 scales ; a postmedial brown band, fulvous on the inner side, and 

 with a sinuous silvery line on it ; three diffused sinuous fuscous 

 lines on outer area. Hind wing white, with two medial, one post- 

 medial, and a submarginal pale fuscous sinuous band. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 40 millim. Type in B. M. 



3830. Hydrelia pictaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 645 ; C. $ S. no. 3999. 



c? . Differs from plumbeolineata in the fore wing being suffused 

 with pale lemon-yellow ; the olive-brown patch only extending to 

 middle of cell ; a black speck at end of cell, and indistinct curved 

 olive-brown medial band ; a large white patch on the postmedial 

 band at veins 3, 4, forming an ocellate mark ; a single submarginal 

 line modified into three black lunules towards costa. 



Hal. Sikhim. Exp. 32 millim. 



3831. Hydrelia recurvilineata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 256 j C. $ S. 



no. 4000. 



Pure silvery white. Fore wing with sinuous curved subbasal 

 black line ; two highly curved antemedial lines ; a speck at end of 

 cell ; a medial line excurved, and with an orange patch on it 

 beyond cell ; two sinuous postmedial lines, the inner from costa 

 to vein 3 orange, the outer orange with black spots ; a maculate 

 black submarginal line slightly angled and double near apex. 

 Hind wing with black speck at end of cell ; fuscous medial, post- 

 medial, and submarginal sinuous bands. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus VENUSIA. 

 Venusia, Curtis, Brit. Ent. vi, pi. 759 (1839;. 



Type, V. cambrica, Curtis, from the United States and Europe. 



Range. Nearctic and Palsearctic regions ; Himalayas. 



Palpi slight, fringed with hair below and hardly reaching beyond 

 the frons, which is rounded ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6 from well above upper angle ; 11 anas- 

 tomosing with 7, 8, 9, 10 to form the areole. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from below middle of disco- 



