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the subcostal vein, the other just beyond the middle of interno-median area; three white 
spots forming an oblique subapical series; a small spot near the apex and another near 
the external angle: secondaries bright orange, with the base, costa, apical area, and five spots 
(of which three form a central interrupted band, and two are upon the abdominal and anal 
margins) black; a white subapical spot: thorax black, the head spotted and the collar and 
tegule margined with testaceous; abdomen orange, with three longitudinal series of black 
spots; pectus buff, venter similar to the upper surface of abdomen, Wings below same colour 
as above. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. 
Silhet; Darjiling (Lidderdale). 
SEUDYRA, Séretch. 
Seudyra longipennis. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 8.) 
Catocala? longipennis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 934 (1865). 
Primaries pale fleshy brown, with the interno-median and internal areas nearly up to the 
outer border and a broad costal subapical patch rich laky brown clouded with sericeous grey ; 
the former crossed by two divergent black-edged tawny lines and the latter enclosing a 
whitish-bordered black spot close to apex; external border darker than the rest of the 
ground-colour, varied with grey and bounded internally by a band composed of three 
parallel angulated black lines; a marginal series of pale-edged black lituree; costa sandy 
brown ; discoidal spots large, brown, with black centres and margins: secondaries orange, 
with an irregular submarginal black band not reaching the abdominal margin, deeply bi- 
sinuated internally between the costa and first median branch; apex and the fringe as far as 
first median branch brown: thorax deep purplish brown, the front of the collar reddish ; 
abdomen orange, with a dorsal series of blackish spots. Primaries below with the base 
ochreous ; apical half of costa and apical area ferruginous ; outer half of cell white, with a 
large rounded black discoidal spot; a large subquadrate spot at the end of the cell, followed 
by a broad, abbreviated, angulated, white belt, crossed by black veins and bordered externally 
by a chocolate-brown stripe ; interno-median area, excepting at base and external angle 
(which are sordid white), blackish brown; external area grey, with whity-bruwn border ; 
fringe tipped with blackish: secondaries ochreous; external area, particularly at apex, 
irrorated with ferruginous scales, which are limited internally by an irregular bisinuated 
discal ferruginous stripe; a small black spot at the end of the cell: body below bright 
ochreous, inclining to orange at the sides; palpi black. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. 
Silhet; Darjiling (Fotheringham). 
Mr. Walker remarks that ‘this species recedes much from the typical form of Cato- 
cala,” 
