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tibiae and tarsi densely hairy. Forewings with areole present, 8 and !) stalked 

 from ai-eole, 7 connate or closely approximated at origin, 10 well separate. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 approximated or connate, 5 from shortly above lower 

 angla of cell, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 approximated and connected with cell at J or 

 shortly before middle. 



Type, D. pudihuiida Lin. from Europe. A lars;e aenus. well represented in 

 Indo-Malaya and Africa; but in Australia by only three species, two of which 

 have a wide range outside the Australian region. 



1. Hindwings with dorsal area deep-ochreous Iwrsfieldi. 



Hindwings uniformly ochreous-whitish 2. 



2. Forewings whitish with fuscous-brown postmedian 



blotch ostraciinj. 



Forewings pale-ochreous with fuscous median streak securis. 



57. Dastchira horspieldi. 



Dasychira Iwrsfieldi, Saund., Trans. Ent. Soc 1851, p. 162; Da.'iychira. ijrotei, 

 Moore, Lep. E.I. Co., p. 338; Da.'<i/chira arga, Moore, Lep. E.I. Co., 

 p. 339; DasycTiira kansalia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 401; Dasy- 

 chira nilgirica, Hmps., 111. Het., viii., p. 58, PI. 141, f. 13, 14; Teora 

 farenoides. Luc, Proc. Roy. Soc. Q'land, 1892, p. 75. 



<S. 45-48 mm. Head white. Palpi about 1; white, upper part of outer 

 surface blackish. Antennae white, pectinations ochreous-brown . Thorax white 

 with a few fuscous scales, crest mixed with fuscous and brownish. Abdomen 

 deep-ochreous, underside and tuft whitish. Legs whitish; tibiae and tarsi with 

 blackish dots on dorsum. Forewings elongate-oval, costa straight to near apex, 

 thence arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded; white, sometimes partly 

 grey-whitish: slender lines and a few scattered scales fuscous; an irregularly, 

 dentate, sub-basal line; a slightly dentate line from | costa to mid-dorsum; reni- 

 form slenderly outlined with fuscous; a denticulate line from J costa to tornus; 

 an interrupted, irregularly dentate, subterminal line; a submarginal line, discon- 

 tinuous on veins, the terminal ends of which are also fuscous; cilia whitish or 

 gi-ey-whitish irrorated with fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded; deep- 

 ochreous, paler towards termen ; sometimes a terminal band of fuscous suffusion ; 

 cilia whitish sometimes mixed with fuscous. Underside whitish with some ochre- 

 ous suffusion on basal area of forewings and dorsal area of hindwings; erescentic 

 fuscous discal marks on both wings, sometimes also fuscous postmedian lines. 



?. 98 mm. Forewings with costa rather strongly arched; markings more 

 suffused. Hindwings whitish with a suffused dorsal ochreous blotch. 



N.Q.: Cairns. Innisfail, Townsville; Q.: Brisbane. Also from Java, Malay 

 Peninsula, Ceylon, and India. 



58. Dasychira ostracina. 



Laelia ostracinu. Turn.. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust.. 1902, p. 181. 



The type, which is the only example I have seen, is a 9 in poor condition, but 

 there appears to be a large reniform spot outlined with fuscous and with a 

 central fuscous mark preceding the postmedian blotch on forewing. The correct 

 locality is Cape York 



