PSEUDEEA3TEIA, — BETOMOEA. 615 



3493. Pseuderastria larentica. 



Amyna larentica, Hmpsn. Motlis IdcI. ii. p. 252 (1894). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed witb some puq^lish pink ; 

 pectus and legs brownish; the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen black mixed with some purplish pink. Fore wing greyish 

 suffused with fuscous and irrorated with black and a few purplish- 

 pink scales, the ..terminal area largely suffused with pink ; subbasal 

 line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, oblique, waved ; orbicular a minute reddish spot defined 

 by black, round, very widely separated from the reniform which 

 has a red centre with some blackish at upper and lower extremities 

 and pale annulus slightly defined by black, very narrow and con- 

 stricted at middle ; traces of a diffused black medial line ; post- 

 medial line black defined by greyish on outer side, bent outAvards 



Fig. 159. — Pseuderastria larentica, (j'. \. 



below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some pink 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black, defined on each 

 side by pink suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined by pink on 

 inner side ; cilia blackish with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing 

 fuscous : an indistinct minutely waved postmedial line defined by 

 greyish on outer side ; a fine dark terminal line with slight pale 

 lunules before it : cilia with series of pale points at base ; the 

 underside greyish thickly irrorated with dark brown, an oblique 

 medial line and rather diffused postmedial line excurved at middle. 

 Hah. BntiTAisr {Dudgeon), 1 5 ; Assam, Naga Hills (Dohert/j), 

 type t d in Coll. Rothschild. Fxj}. 6 28, $ 34 millim. 



Genus BRYOMffiA. 



Type. 

 Bryomoia, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 397 (1892) melachlora. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about middle of frons, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax 

 without crest, the metathorax with sjDreading crest; build slender; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore 

 wing rather broad, the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a small ai-eole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

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

 only. 



