GELASTOCEEA. — BESSARA. 585 



purplish crimson ; a slight curved brownish subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brownish, exciirved below 

 cosfca and bent outwards at median nervure ; a brownish point in 

 middle of cell and ill-defined fuscous discoidal lunule ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, dark, excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold 

 and below vein 4 ; an indistinct punctiform blackish subterminal 

 line, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the terminal area faintly tinged with brown and 

 with traces of purplish on termen from apex to vein 2 ; the under- 

 side with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with 

 purplish red, 



Uab. E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Corea, Gensan (^Leecli), 

 1 S ,2 $ . Exp. aO millim. 



Genus BESSARA. 



Type. 



Bessara, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoob vi. p. 180 (1862).... quadrati]icnnis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing to vertex 

 of liead and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with rough hair and 

 scales mixed and without distinct crests; tihite fringed with long hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing short and broad, the costa 

 nearly straight, the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly 

 curved, nearly erect and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 (5 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed 

 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



6995. Bessara quadratipennis. 



Bessara quadratipennis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 181 (1862) ; 

 Swinb. Oat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 98, pi. iii. f. 17. 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown tinged with greyish ; pectus 

 whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Pore wing grey suffused and thickly irrorated 



Fig. 2S0. — Bessara qiiadmtipenjiis, cJ. \, 



with red-brown ; traces of an oblique waved antemedial line ; a 

 blackish discoidal point ; postmedial line indistinct, oblique to vein 

 6, then waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; a faint 

 waved whitish subterminal line defined on inner side by small 

 dentate brown marks ; cilia whitish intersected with brown at the 



