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Hydrelia pictaria. 
Somatina (?) pictarta, 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 (Hampson) ; Western China. 
HHydrelia electaria, sp. n. 
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. 
p 4fab. Western China. 
Hydrelia obliterata. 
Geometra oblite’ ‘a, Hufn. Berl. Mag. iv. p. 608 (1767), 
Geometra /enc,. %a, Hubn. Geom. pl. xi. fig. 58. 
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