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OPSYEA; PROTOSEUDYRA. By W. Warren. 



fcoi keritz- 

 iana. 



with olive; hindwing dark grey, the fringe white; in the $$, as a rule, the -white areas are larger. Turco- 

 rnania. Samarcand, Issyk-kul, Tibet. 

 agatha. AE. agatha Stgr. (481). Forewing pale dull yellow: the lines as in subflava, somewhat indefinite; 



the submarginal line much less prominent; a small dark cell spot; hindwing reddish brown, darker towards 

 termen; fringe of both wings strongly chequered. Recorded only from Greece. 



AE. koekeritziana Hbn. (= flavida Ochs., flava Hbn.) (48 1). Forewing whitish or pale ochreous, 

 glossy, with a black dot at end of cell; fringe with basal half redbrown, the outer white; hindwing dark 

 subfumata. fuscous; the fringe as in forewing; the ab. subfumata Stgr. has no dot visible at end of cell of forewing, 

 and the hindwing is paler, more yellowish brown. Occurs in Austria, Hungary, Carinthia, Croatia, the 

 Balkans, and S. Russia; also in Bithynia, Armenia, and Pontus; the aberration in Dalmatia and the 

 Taurus Mts. Larva }^ellow green; the dorsal and spiracular lines broadly grey; an orange stripe above the 

 feet; spiracles black; head small, light brown; thoracic plate black; anal plate grey; feeding on Delphinium. 

 gratiosa. AE. gratiosa Stgr. Forewing dull whitish yellow, faintly flushed with pale brown in the basal and 



terminal areas; outer line incomplete, brown, parallel and close to the termen; this line is only plain at 

 costa and is absorbed in a brown shade from termen to end of cell; terminal line sharply brown; fringe 

 mottled brown and yellow; hindwing pure white with dark terminal line; underside of forewing with a 

 dark horizontal streak through cell to termen. Described by Staudinger from a single $ from Mardin, Mesopotamia. 

 nubila. AE. nubila Stgr. (48 k). Forewing creamcolour speckled with grey brown; basal area limited by a 



curved line of brown scales; inner line parallel to it, outer line rather more outcurved beyond cell; median 

 shade marked thick on costa, obsolete in cell, then attached to outer line which is double, the outer arm 

 followed by a brown and yellow mottled fascia; fringe brown, grey-mottled, the outer half chequered; 

 hindwing pale fuscous grey, the fringe whitish. Mesopotamia. 



130. Genus: Opsyra Hmps. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, flat; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment roughly haired, the 

 third blunt; antennae of $ lamellate, pubescent; thorax clothed with spatulate hairs; abdomen elongate, 

 with slight crest on basal segment; wings bronzy, with lustrous scales. 



Type Opsyra chalcoela Hmps. 

 chalcoela. 0. chalcoela Hmps. (481). Forewing richbrown along costa, bronzj 7 olive ochreous towards inner 



and outer margins; all the lines, especially on costa, shown up by lustrous blue scales; median area olive 

 brown; the inner line curved, preceded by lustrous scales, the outer excurved above and incurved below, 

 edged by shining yellow; reniform stigma large, round, with a pale golden sheen in outer half; sub- 

 marginal line lustrous, only plain above anal angle; a bluish white line close before termen; an orange 

 and yellow costal spot near base; inner margin and outer line with coarse black scales in places; hind- 

 wing olive fuscous, with a pale outer line; inner margin pale bronzy, with two short lines of black scales. 

 An Indian species, also occurring in China. 



131. Genus: Protoseudyra Hmps. 

 Tongue present; frons strongly protuberant, produced in middle to a blunt point; palpi porrect, 

 weak, the second segment hairy, the third small, pointed, depressed; vestiture hairy; abdomen elongate 

 with a metallic boss on basal segment; femora and tibiae long-haired; antennae of $ lamellate and 

 pubescent; forewing with depressed and rounded apex; the species are of weak build, somewhat resembling 

 some Larentiad moths; in the hindwings the radial rises from the centre of discocellular. Type P. picta Hmps. 



picia. P. picta Hmps. (481). Forewing dark fawn colour, washed in places with reddish and sprinkled, 



especially along costal and terminal areas, with white scales; inner and outer lines darker, double; the 

 inner wavy and vertical, the outer sinuous, and somewhat obscure; a diffuse dark lunule at end of cell, 

 the space beyond it without white scaling, but with the veins white; obliquely below apex on vein 5 is a short 

 reddish longitudinal streak, and on costa before apex a reddish patch; hindwing brownish fawn colour, with 

 a large blurred dark cell spot and grey curved outer line; at anal angle is a grey patch containing some fulvous 

 orange and dark scales. Described from X. India, but recorded also from Chekiang and Chang-yang, China. 

 secunda. P. secunda Leech (48 1). Forewing more elongate, with the apex more produced than in picta 



Hmps.; pale fawn colour, dusted with whitish scales; basal area in part, the median area, and a narrow 

 space along termen washed with pale fulvous; inner and outer lines fulvous, conversely edged with a 

 broad pale space; the inner nearly vertical, the outer excurved above, then lunulate-dentate, the outer 

 arm finely white and sinuous; reniform stigma a rather cloudy fulvous lunule; subterminal line wavy, 

 pale; veins beyond cell across the pale space white; hindwing pale yellowish white with dark cellspot and 

 traces of outer and subterminal lines, clearest on inner margin; some yellow and blackish scales at anal 

 angle. Ta-chien-lu and Chang-yang, China. 



fliira. P- flava Leech (48 1). Differs from secunda in the outer line of forewing being single instead of 



double; the hindwing yellowish buff; the underside yellowish, with the costa of both wings deep yellow. 

 Described by Leech from a single <$ from Ichang, China. 



