420 noctttidjE. 



Genus PSEUDELYDNA, nov. 



Type, P. rufoflava, "Wlk. 



Range. Himalayas ; Canara. 



Palpi smooth and upturned, the 3rd joint minute; antennae 

 very long and fasciculated in male ; abdomen very long in male, 

 in which sex the hind tibiae and tarsi are clothed with long hair on 

 the outer side, the tibia without spurs and with a very long tuft of 

 hair on the inner side. Pore wing narrow, with the apex rounded ; 

 the outer margin oblique ; veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form an 

 areole ; hind wing with the anal angle produced to a slight point 

 in male ; veins 3 and 4 stalked. 



2326. Pseudelydna rufoflava, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 467 ; C. $ S. no. 1816. 



$ . Head and thorax bright yellow ; antennas fulvous ; abdo- 

 men fuscous, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing bright yellow ; a 

 faint subbasal curved line ; an oblique antemedial line ; a fulvous 

 ring-spot at end of cell ; a curved postmedial and waved sub- 



Pig 236. — Pseudelydna rufoflava, <5 . \. 



marginal line, the area beyond the latter rufous. Hind wing red, 

 the inner area tinged with fuscous. 



2 with the vertex of thorax fulvous ; the abdomen and hind 

 wing paler. 



Hab. Almorah. Exp. 36 millim. 



2327. Pseudelydna diurna, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 412, pi. 43, fig. 10. 



Differs from rufoflava in the head, thorax, and fore wing being 

 pale brick-red ; the antemedial line more curved ; hind wing with 

 the inner area not fuscous. 



Hab. Sikkim ; JST. Canara. Exp. 36 millitn. 



Genus TYMPANISTES. 



Tympanistes, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 48. 



Type, T. pallida, Moore. 



Range. Dharmsala ; Sikhim. 



Palpi porrect and smoothly scaled, the 3rd joint long ; antennas 

 of male almost simple. Pore wing produced and acute at apex ; 

 neuration normal ; hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 from 

 just above lower angle of cell. 



