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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 hear 

 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 

 tegulae 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, Stretch. 

 Seudyra longipennis. (Plate LXXXII. fig. 8.) 

 Catocala ? longipennis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Supjol. iii. 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 liturse ; 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- 

 siuuated 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-brown 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." 



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