PEGELLA.— IIIMALA.— DASYCIIIRA. 57 



Gciius I'KCiELLA, ll'dlkcr. 

 PeyrlUi, Walker, Cat. Lcp. Ilct. 15. M. Su])])!. p. V.i22. 



PeGELLA lUVniATA, 11. sp. 



Lymantria lineata ? , AValk. Cat. Lcp. Ilet. U. M. i\ . p. 875. 



Female. White. Fore wiug silky, with a basal short curved sinuous brown streak and 

 two transverse brown bands, the first band outwardly oblique, straight, and one fourth from 

 the base ; second band inwardly oblique, broadest and lunulur, its base touching the first on 

 tile liind margin ; an exterior marginal row of browu linear spots, which also cross the cilia. 

 Thorax and a large silky anal tuft white ; abdomen reddish ; antennic and palpi black ; col- 

 lar and tuft at base of antenna? and front of head red ; legs black, fore legs red-streaked. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



llab. Darjiliug. In coll. British Museum and Dr. Staudinger. 



HIM ALA, iiov. gen. 



Male and female. Fore wing short ; costa slightly arched at the base ; apex somewhat 

 pointed ; exterior margin oblique and slightly convex, posterior angle rounded : hind wing 

 broad, apex and exterior border rounded. Veins similar to those in Sfilimotia salicis. Body 

 robust, extending to length of hind wing; antenntr bipc^ctinate, broadly so in male; palpi 

 slender, porrect, pilose ; legs slender, femora and tibia) pilose. 



IIlMALA AliGEXTIiA. 



Rfdoa ari/e/itea,V,'a\kcr, Cat. Lop. Ilct. B. M. iv. p. 827 (1855). 

 Dusychira ilita, Moore, Cat. Lcp. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 341 (1858). 



Male and female. Silvery-white. Fore wing witli the veins black, except the costal 

 and upper subcostal branches : hind wing with the veins externally and marginal line black. 

 Palpi black at the side ; antenna; pale brown ; fore and middle legs black in front ; tarsi in 

 female black beneath. 



Expanse, <S If, 2 \^ inch. 



llalj. Deyra Uhoon, ^<^^^'. Himalaya. 



Geims DASYCIIIRA, Stephens. 

 Dasychira, Stepli. Brit. Eiit. ii. p. 58. 



DaSYCHIRA Uia'XXKSCENS, 11. sp. 



Male. Upperside — fore wing greyish-white, irrorated with bro\Mi scales, crossed by a 



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