. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. orsYRA. 445 thom. Underside of fore wing whitish, the basal and costal areas suffused with jellow, a reddish discoidal spot and bisinuate post- medial line with some reddish suffusion beyond it ; hind wing yellow with reddish discoidal spot, minutely waved postmedial line with the interspaces beyond it whitish, and terminal series of small red lunules. Hah. C. China, Ichang (^l/r*. Pmf<), 1 J type. Aa^). 32 millim. Genus OPSYRA, nov. Tj'pe, 0. chcdcoela. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, tbe 2nd joint re
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. orsYRA. 445 thom. Underside of fore wing whitish, the basal and costal areas suffused with jellow, a reddish discoidal spot and bisinuate post- medial line with some reddish suffusion beyond it ; hind wing yellow with reddish discoidal spot, minutely waved postmedial line with the interspaces beyond it whitish, and terminal series of small red lunules. Hah. C. China, Ichang (^l/r*. Pmf<), 1 J type. Aa^). 32 millim. Genus OPSYRA, nov. Tj'pe, 0. chcdcoela. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, tbe 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short, porrect; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenna; of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests of very long spatulate scales, the patagia fringed with long rough scales at extremity ; tibite fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen witli large creist at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and .5 from near anele of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areule ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4920. Opsyra chalcoela. Callyna chalcoela, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. xiv. p. 208 (1902). Head and tegulce yellow; palpi red-brown with a few white scales; frons with lateral brown spots; antennae brown; thorax white, the scales at end of patagia and metathoracic crest yellow ; pectus ochreous white ; legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fulvous yellow, the base and ventral surface whitish. Pore wing golden olive-brown, the costal area chocolate-brown irrorated with silvery blue, the inner area and the terminal area except at apex pale brassy yellow with an olive tinge ; a slight silve
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