(405) 



with (lark brown ; tibiae of hind pair dark brown with a black stripe, all hairy, 

 the front pair being very thickly hairy. 



Expanse : 54—55 mm. 



Hab. Dinawa, August. 



The type is in my collection. 



96. Dasychira minor spec. nov. (PI. VI. f. 27). 



(?. Head and thorax grey; palpi black tipped with grey; antennae with 

 reddish branches ; abdomen dark grey ; legs, fore darkish grey, very hairy, middle 

 pale grey, with tibiae strongly marked with black, hind pale grey. 



c?. Primary greyish white, central and posterior areas strongly irrorated with 

 dark grey ; basal line close to base represented by two short dashes, one from the 

 costa, the other across the cell, a double medial dentate line, the inner line inter- 

 rupted by a whitish triangular patch below the cell, leaving two dark <-shaped 

 marks between it and the inner margin, postmedial line waved, sometimes double, 

 the outer one rather indistinct, in front of which is a dark spot closing the cell, 

 space beyond whitish, two waved indistinct lines between this and the margin 

 both rather interrupted, margin finely dark, a black spot on the costa beyond the 

 cell, fringes tesselated dark grey and white. Secondary whitish, with a broad 

 grey shading on the posterior margin ; fringes tesselated grey and white. 



Underside : primaries smoky-black, with whitish inner-marginal areas ; 

 secondaries white, with a dark stripe beyond the cell across the wing, very 

 distinct on the costa. 



Expanse : 40 mm. 



Hab. Dinawa, August. 



The type is in my collection. 



97. Dasychira kenricki spec. nov. (PI. IV. f 27). 



S- Head and thorax grizzled grey ; palpi blackish brown, grey tipped ; abdomen 

 yellowish, with dark segmental divisions and dark anal tuft. 



Primary grey, with the basal area whitish grey, sparingly irrorated with very 

 fine darker grey, more densely on the inner margin, an irregular fine black line 

 sharply angled below the costa and receding basewards ; a broad dark medial band 

 edged with blackish laterally, followed by a band of much darker ground-colour, 

 in which is a dark spot closing the cell, a postmedial serrate blackish line, 

 ground-colour darkish to the termen,a subterminal irregular serrate line. Secondary 

 yellow, with a broadish postmedial blackish band not reaching the apex. 



Expanse : c? 62—63 mm. 



Ilab. Dinawa, June — August. 



The type is in my collection. Several specimens were taken. 



Dasychiroides gen. nov. 



Palpi upturned, densely clothed with long hair ; antennae with the branches 

 very long in male ; legs hairy. 



Primary with outer margin somewhat rounded, scarcely oblique ; nenration, 

 veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 and 12 anastomosing very shortly. Secondary witli 

 veins 3, 4, and 5 from near the angle of cell, 6 and 7 from the upper angle. 



Type : D. obsoleta spec. nov. 



