58 LIPAEIU.E. 



brown irregular zigzag basal line and two subbasal lines, a sinuous discal line, and a sub- 

 marginal pale-bordered lunular line ; a brown dentate streak at end of the cell : hind wing 

 greyish-brown, palest on outer margin ; veins and a submarginal fascia darker brown. 

 Underside grey, brownish-speckled ; base of fore wing with ferruginous-brown hairs : both 

 wings with a triangular brown spot at end of cell, and a pale brown submarginal fascia. 

 Thorax, head, and legs grey, speckled with brown ; abdomen pale brown ; pectinations of 

 auteunte ferruginous-brown, shaft grey. 



Female. Marked as in male, excepting that the hind wings are much paler-coloured. 



Expanse, <1 2|, 2 3f inches. 



Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



This species has greater similarity of appearance to the European B. j^udibunda than 

 any other Indian member of the genus. 



Dasychira perdix, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 3.) 



Male. Grey ; both wings and the veins irrorated with prominent blackish-brown speckles, 

 forming on the disk of the fore wing indistinct transverse sinuous bands and jjatches, and a 

 submai'ginal line ; a suffused brown patch at end of the cell, and another ascending from 

 middle of the hind margin : hind wing with a submarginal fascia ; inner margin and abdo- 

 men above pale ferruginous-grey. Underside yellowish-white ; veins lined with pale ochre- 

 ous ; costal base of fore wing broadly pale ferruginous. Thorax grey, speckled with brown ; 

 antennae, side of palpi, and legs pale ferruginous. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Ilab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Dasychira fasciata, n. sp. 



Male. Fore wing with two broad greyish-white bands, the first extending from middle 

 of costa and narrowing to near posterior margin, the other along exterior margin, both in- 

 tersected by brown veins ; base of wing and space between the bands greenish-brown, crossed 

 by grey lunules : hind wing creamy-white ; anterior margin to below apex greyish-white ; 

 apex crossed by brown streaks. Underside creamy-white ; costa and cilia of fore wing- 

 ferruginous. Head and front of thorax white ; hind part of thorax greenish-brown ; abdo- 

 men pale testaceous, tip dark brown ; antennae brown ; palpi, pectus, and legs ferruginous. 



Expanse 2-^-,^ inches. 



Hub. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Dasychira strigata, n. sp. 



Female. Uppcrside grey, suffused outwardly with fuliginous-bro^^■n ; irrorated with black 

 scales; crossed by four subbasal, two discal, and a marginal, black sinuous lines, the outer 

 discal line being pale-bordered ; a black lunule at end of cell ; cilia black-spotted : hind 

 wing greyish-brown, base pale ferruginous ; an indistinct blackish submarginal fascia, and 



