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93. Dasychira subnigra spec. nov. (PI. VI. f. 41). 



c?. Head and thorax pale grey ; palpi black, tips whitish ; antennae with 

 red-brown branches ; abdomen dark brown, tinged with golden or red-brown, 

 whitish beneath, anal tuft whitish ; legs white, with greyish scales and spotted 

 with black. 



Primary greyish white, irrorated with darker grey beyond the medial line and 

 less so at the base. A snbbasal dentate black line, interrupted in cell ; double 

 medial waved lines, a distinct dentate postmedial and marginal line ; between 

 these two a white dentate stripe. Secondary blackish, with greyish white fringes. 

 Below both wings blackish, with darker cell-spot. Primary, costa white, and 

 posterior margin broadly white. Secondary with costa whitish. 



Expanse : 54 — .58 mm. 



Hab. Dinawa, August. 



The type is in my collection. A series was taken. 



94. Dasychira subnigropunctata spec. nov. (PI. VI. f 40). 



cJ. Head and thorax pale grey; palpi grey, blackish laterally; abdomen 

 darker grey; legs hairy, pale grey. Antennae shafts whitish, pectinations red. 



Primary white, sparingly irrorated with grey : basal line only traceable by a 

 short transverse dark dash from the costa, medial line visible but very interrupted, 

 postmedial line fairly distinct wavy, submarginal line distinct, but interrnjjted 

 by each vein. Secondary white, with the posterior marginal area slightly irrorated 

 with grey ; at the end of the cell a dark spot below shows through. 



Underside : both wings white, with a very sparing and faint irroration of grey 

 here and there ; at the end of the cells is a very prominent black spot, giving the 

 underside a very distinctive appearance. 



Expanse : 50 mm. 



Hah. Dinawa, September. 



The type is in my collection. 



95. Dasychira brunnea spec. nov. (PI. VI. f 30). 



J. Primary grey, entirely covered with jiale brown irrorations, basal and 

 medial darker transverse lines obscure and interrupted, postmedial stripe distinct, 

 strongly serrate, near costa, serrate and obscure in the median area, more distinct 

 and jagged near the inner margin, this line is double on the costa ; a dark almost 

 continuous fine submarginal line, between which and the postmedial line is a 

 broad, strongly toothed and serrate pale grey stripe from the costa to the anal 

 angle ; posterior margin finely darkish ; near the end of the cell is a pale grey 

 indistinct spot, pupilled with dark brown ; fringes pale brown. Secondary uniform 

 darkish brown ; fringes paler, darkly tcsselated. 



Underside : both wings uniform brownish grey ; primary with pale ochreous 

 costa, a blackish spot closing the cell, and whitish fringes ; secondary with quite 

 white fringes to the costa, and very pale and darkly tesselated posterior fringes, 

 the posterior margin being finely dark. Head and thorax covered with pale 

 brown and whitish scales; antennae with reddish branches; paljji black, tipped 

 with pale grey ; abdomen brown with a lighter anal tuft ; legs greyish, spotted 



