HY DRELIA.—VENUSIA. 415 
wines with a straight oblique medial orange line ; outer area with 
three waved orange lines, and the veins streaked with orange. 
Hab. Sikhim. Hap. 28 millim. 
Seor. III. (Agnibesa). Fore wing with the outer margin rounded ; 
hind wing with it strongly crenulate. 
3829. Hydrelia plumbeolineata, n. sp. 
Head and thorax olive-brown; antenne ringed with white; 
abdomen white. Fore wing white, with large olive-brown patch 
on basal half of costa, crossed by five ill-defined bands of silvery 
scales ; a postmedial brown band, fulvous on the inner side, and 
with a sinuous silvery line on it; three diffused sinuous fuscous 
lines on outer area. Hind wing white, with two medial, one post- 
medial, and a submarginal pale fuscous sinuous band. 
Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 40 milim. Type in B. M. 
3830. Hydrelia pictaria, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 645; C. § S. no. 3999. 
$. Differs from plumbeolineata in the fore wing being suffused 
with pale lemon-yellow; the olive-brown patch only extending to 
middle of cell ; a black speck at end of cell, and indistinct curved 
olive-brown medial band ; a large white patch on the postmedial 
band at veins 3, 4, forming an ocellate mark ; a single submarginal 
line modified into three black lunules towards costa. 
Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 32 millim. 
3831. Hydrelia recurvilineata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 256; C. & S. 
no. 4000. 
Pure silvery white. Fore wing with sinuous curved subbasal 
black line ; two highly curved antemedial lines ; a speck at end of 
cell; a medial line excurved, and with an orange patch on it 
beyond cell; two sinuous postmedial lines, the inner from costa 
to vein 3 orange, the outer orange with black spots; a maculate 
black submarginal line slightly angled and double near apex. 
Hind wing with black speck at end of cell; fuscous medial, post- 
medial, and submarginal sinuous bands. 
Hab. Sikhim. vp. 36 millim. 
Genus VENUSIA. i ae 
Venusia, Curtis, Brit. Ent. vi, pl. 759 (1839). 
Type, V. cambrica, Curtis, from the United States and Europe. 
Range. Nearctic and Palearctic regions ; Himalayas. 
Palpi slight, fringed with hair below and hardly reaching beyond 
the frons, which is rounded ; hind tibie with two pairs of spurs. 
Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above 
middle of discocellulars ; 6 from well above upper angle; 11 anas- 
tomosing with 7, 8,9, 10 to form the areole. Hind wing with 
vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from below middle of disco- 
