SEUDYRA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
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S. poecila spec. nov. $: Body similarly coloured as in albifascia, but the abdomen above only with 1 tuft of poeriia. 
hair, which is black; palpal segment 3 as long as in venosa ; frontal tubercle very slender, almost tapering to a point. 
The scaling of the prothorax purple-red, somewhat glossy, the forewing bearing the same colour in the basal and 
distal areas and in front of the hind margin; the forewing dusted with bluish white scales, distally of the apex 
of cell there is a large white spot on a black ground, outside this spot a dull greyish blue line, which is white 
at the costal margin; fringe distinctly undulate. Hindwing yellow, distal marginal band black, broad anteriorly 
and narrowing posteriorly, not reaching the anal angle, fringes spotted with white on both sides of the hindwing 
and on the underside of the forewing. On the underside the base of the forewing is yellow halfway to the 
lower median, a white transverse spot at the apex of the cell sandglass-shaped, the white discal band sharply 
defined, extending to the lower median vein, tip of wing brown-red. Length of forewing 13 mm. -— 1 without 
locality from coll. Elwes, probably from Sikkim. 
S. venosa Moore. Forewing grey, a broad streak along hind margin and a large subapical patch brown, venom. 
Hindwing without black discocellular spot; in front of the anal angle an isolated brown spot above and beneath. 
Underside of forewing with a white discal band and a white cell-spot. -— North-West India to the Shan States. 
b) Antenna setiform in a n d $. 
S. catocalina Walk. (= exiguifascia Swinh.) (4 d). Forewing long, brown-red in front of the hind- caiocalina. 
margin and at the apex; hindwing yellow, with a black discocellular spot, and a black submarginal band 
which is separated from the margin and abbreviated anteriorly. Underside yellow; forewing rust-red at the apex and 
costal margin, a spot in the cell and another on the cross-vein as well as a large spot below the cell black; hindwing 
with a rust-red submarginal line, which is often widened anteriorly so as to form a band.-— Sikkim, Bhutan. 
S. longipennis Walk. (4d). Larger than catocalina ; the black-brown band of the hindwing reaches to the lonr/ipeniih 
costal margin and extends, at least anteriorly, to or close to the distal margin; the black discocellular dot absent. 
On the underside of the forewing one or two cell-spots and the discal band white. — Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam. 
S. bala. On the upperside the abdomen banded yellow and black, the forewing with rust-red spot 
near the hind angle, the hindwing with a black discocellular dot, a black subbasal smear below the cell and a 
black marginal band, which is deeply incurved on the proximal side in the centre. On the underside the fore¬ 
wing with 2 white cell-spots and a white discal band. $ with anal wool. North India and Burma. — bala bain. 
Moore (4 cl). Forewing above so densely dusted with dark scaling that the markings are but little prominent. 
The marginal band of the hindwing beneath separated from the fringes by a yellow line, or a large proportion of it 
so much dusted with yellow that there remains posteriorly a black spot, which stands in front of the anal angle, hilaris. 
Sikkim, Bhutan. — hilaris subsp. nov. The black belts of the abdomen broader; the markings of the forewing 
much more distinct, the discal band of the forewing white also above, at least in the centre, beyond it a white 
line and before the margin some white dots. The hindwing beneath hardly more extended yellow at the anal 
angle than above. Mao, Manipur, 5-—7000 ft., I $ obtained by W. Doherty. 
S. cirrha spec. nov. <$: Nearly allied to bala. Abdomen with black apex and a dorsal row of black 
transverse spots. Forewing above almost as light in the cell and on the disc as in bala hilaris. The margin¬ 
al band of the hindwing produced into a tooth between raclials 1 and 3, very narrow between radial 3 and 
median 2, almost interrupted, dilated again so as to form a large spot in front of the anal angle, the 
posterior portion of the band separated from the fringes by a yellow interspace. On the underside the base 
of the forewing yellow, the rest of the cell all white, and the white discal band connected with the cell- 
patch anteriorly and posteriorly, the circular and reniform spots being therefore isolated; costal and distal 
margins greyish yellow. The marginal band of the hindwing suppressed, apart from a few black scales and an 
anal spot. — Horisha, Formosa. 
S. transiens. This species and the following one have hitherto been confounded. Although four 
names have been bestowed an the two species, in no description have those characters been mentioned in which 
the two insects differ constantly. The distinctions of transiens are as follows: abdomen without black dots 
at the spiracles, its apex incrassate in the $ and densely covered with wool as in bala, the wool being some¬ 
times blackish. On the upperside of the forewing a rust-red spot at the hind margin near the hind angle, at the 
proximal side of this spot a metallic greyish blue spot, below the apex a greyish blue submarginal one and an¬ 
other of the same colour between radial 3 and median 1, but no grey-blue spot between medians 1 and 2. 
Hindwing without black discocellular spot, or this spot very feebly indicated and that only beneath. The 
harpe of the reaches beyond the apex of the clasper, lies in a smooth naked grove, and is not sharply pointed 
like a needle, but blunt. The larva figured by Horsfield and later by Peepers as that of ,,transiens“ belongs 
either to the present species or to the next. It is black and bears like the larvae of the typical forms of 
Agaristids glossy black dots each with a long white hair; the first segment and the last one orange above. Distri¬ 
buted from West China through Northern India to Bali and Borneo and occurs presumably also on the Lesser 
Sunda Islands to the east of Bali. This species appears to occur everywhere in two forms, an usually large 
one in which the cell and disc of the forewing above are dusted with yellowish grey, the black marginal band of 
the hindwing is rather strongly narrowed behind, and the white cell-spots on the underside of the fore¬ 
wing are large, and a smaller form with the forewing obtuser and darker, the hindwing deeper yellow and its 
marginal band broader. The black dorsal spots of the abdomen are on the whole larger in the dark form. — 
svhalba Leech is the Chinese subspecies (cf. vol. 3. p. 7, pi. 1 e, as Zalissa s.). — dlssimilis Swinh. is very similar dissimilis. 
