C0NI8ANIA. — DASTGASTBR. 473 



white on lower part ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, with scries 

 of white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excnrved 

 to vein 4, then incurred, some white points on costa bej-ond it ; 

 subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of slight fuscous lunules ; cilia inter- 

 sected with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous sntt'used with rufous, 

 rather paler towards base; cilia ochreous wliite, with a rufous line 

 through tliem ; the underside whitish irrorated with rufous, a 

 discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Ab. 1. cervina. Fore wing ])ale rufous, with white streak on 

 median nervure. — S. Russia, E. Siberia. 



Ab. 2. hoviwi. Fore wing brownish rufous, with the median 

 nervure defined by whitish streaks towards extremity, the series of 

 points almost obsolete. — W. Tarkeslan. 



Ab. 'd. furcata. Fore wing reddish, with wliite streaks on the 

 veins. — Urals. 



Ab. 4. pomerdna. Fore wing with prominent white streaks on 

 the veins. — S. Germany, W. Turkestan. 



Ab. 5. alhina. Fore wing greyish ochreous, Avith white streaks 

 on the veins. — Mongolia. 



Hah. S. Germany, Pomerania, Zcllcr, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; 

 S. Russia, Urals ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 S , Ferghana, 

 Issyk-Kul ; Mongolia, Uliassutai ; E. Siberia. Exp. 38-40 millim. 



Genus DASYGASTER. ^r 



Type. 



Dasygasfcr, Giien. Noct. i. p. 201 (1852) hollandim. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with bair in front, the 

 3rd joint porreet ; frons with small rounded pruminence, with sligiit corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennie of male typically with brislles 

 and cilia ; bead and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and 

 metathorax with spreading crests; pectus and abdomen clothed with long hair, 

 the latter with dorsal crests at base and lateral fringes of hair, lung in male. 

 Fore wing rather sboi-t and broad, the a|)ex I'ectangular ; veins o and 5 fi-om 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from uppei- angle ; U from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areoie ; 11 frcjm cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 iroiu angle of cell; .5 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with tlie cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate, with moderate branches. 



A. Fore wing with the claviform present, defined by white eugrapha. 



]3. Fore wing with the claviform absent Ikjniplena. 



*1821. Dasygaster eugrapha. (Plate XCI. fig. 12.) 



Dasygaster eugrapha. Turner, ined. 

 c? . Head and thorax clothed with dark brown, rufous, and grey 



