Pxihl 1. VIII. vm. DIPSOSPHECIA. By M. Bartel. 893 



characterised by t lie whitish grey woolly hair wluch covers head and thorax. Forewing broader and more strongly 

 rounded than in ichneunioniformis, with a small pale yellow spot at the base. Costal margin greyish brown, 

 hind margin yellowish brown. The longitudinal patch almost reaches to the median band, wliich is broad, proxi- 

 mally greyish brown, distally l)uffish orange. The outer vitreous patch is very large and consists of 6 spots; 

 tlierefore the grey scaling at the outer margin and apex much reduced, the outer-marginal border almost being 

 absent. Palpi pale yellow, first and second segments exteriorly with long black bristles, third segment smoothly 

 scaled. Antennae black, brown beneath at the base, in ^ very strongly ciliated. Prothorax glossy steel-blue, 

 otherwise of a peculiar wiiite-grey colour, clothed with woolly hair. Patagia posteriorly with yellow hair. 

 Abdomen blue-black, with a dirty yellow belt on each segment excepting the fii'st, the belts on segments 2, 4 and 

 6 broadest, that on 3 only represented by a trace of yellow, all the belts narrower beneath. Anal tuft yellow, 

 with 2 narrow black stripes. Femora blue-black and grey, with woolly hair; tibiae huffish yellow, black at base 

 and apex; tarsi yellow. — Only known from Mesopotamia (Diarbekr) and Pontus (Amasia). 



D. rothschildi spec. nov. (50 g). A very robust species, with the abdomen strongly cylindrical and pointed. rothschUdi. 

 Body and palpi with deep velvety black hair, the latter with strong hair on the outer side and extending 

 above head by one-half. Frons variegated with whitish scales; anterior borders of eyes silvery wliite. Anten- 

 nae uniformly black, with a brush of black bristles at the tip. Abdomen and anal tuft deep black, segment 2 

 above with a thin and shortened golden yellow belt, a broad one on 4. Legs black, only the hind tibia 

 above with a broad orange-yellow median ring, which is narrow beneath, beyond the ring deep velvety black. 

 Spurs very long. Proboscis absent. Breast without lateral coloured spot. Forewing smoky brown, the median 

 spot a little darker and bearing distally a small orange spot ; liind margin black ; longitudinal and wedge spots 

 entirely covered with yellowish brown scaling; outer vitreous patch consisting of 4 long spots separated 

 by broad brown vein-streaks and extending into the loose brown scaling of the outer border. Marginal line of 

 both wings thin, smoke-brown. Base of hindwing black, the veins with brown scaling, the cross-vein only in- 

 crassate in the anterior half. ■ — This strange species is characterised by the deep black body, the two yellow 

 abdominal belts, the broad orange ring of the hind tibia and the peculiar forewing with its long and not sharply 

 defined outer vitreous patch, and stands quite isolated aniong the other species. One $ from Amasia, in my 

 collection. Named after the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, London. 



D. senilis Gr.-Grah. Likewise nearest to megillaeformis and ceifurmis. The antennae long, very strong and senilis. 

 above quite black, in (J with very thick and long teeth; in $ thinner and incrassate before the tip. Palpi, 

 head and thorax clothed in (J with unusually long hair, which is black on the outside of the palpi, yellow on their 

 inside, and grey on the other parts; $ without this long hair, with the head and palpi bright ochreous. Thorax 

 and abdomen blue-black, the latter with 3 bright yellow belts, complete on underside, and narrower and whit- 

 ish in (J. Anal brush of ^ black in the middle, rusty red at the sides, and straw-yellow beneath; the brush 

 of $ entirely black. Legs pale yellow with black joints, the hair longer in (J than in $; in $ the legs more 

 ochreous with brown joints. Costal margin and median band of foremng black, the band distally bordered 

 with yellow in (^ and orange in $. Hind margin scaled orange. Distal area orange, in ,^ yellow, the marginal 

 line thin and black. Base of hindwing orange in $, black in ^. — Easily distinguished by the peculiar 

 (J-antenna, the long grey hair on head and thorax oi^, the sexually different anal tuft, etc. Transalai, at an 

 altitude of 11500 ft., and Hindukush (Beik Pass, July 8). 



D. auricaudata spec. nov. Expanse 20 mm (^). Still slenderer than uroceriformis, with very narroyv atiricaudata. 

 forewing, whose hind margin is pale yellow. Median band black, outwardly yellow: costal and distal borders 

 brown; vitreous patches very large, longitudinal one almost extending to the median band, outer vitreous patch 

 broader than high, consisting of 5 spots (first spot and last one-half the length of the others), with pale yellow 

 scaling distally, the colouring not being sharply bounded. Hindwing wth the distal border narro,w and dark, 

 the veins yellow at the base, and the cross-vein also yellow and not incrassate. Body black. Antenna entirely 

 black, dentate, with moderately strong ciliation. Palpi yellow, striped with black on outside, first and se- 

 cond segments with shaggy hair. Frons yellow. Anterior borders of eyes and liind edge of head whitish. Patagia 

 with yellow shoulder-spot. Abdomen with slight yellow belts on segments 2, 5 and 6, and with broader 

 ones on 4 and 7, the belts continuous across underside, the belts broadest on segment 4 and rather 

 less complete on 2 and 7. Anal brush golden yellow, above in the centre and beneath at the sides of the 

 central tuft with tliin black stripes. Legs black; tibiae and tarsi yellow, ringed with black. Proboscis atrophied. 

 — ■ Easily distinguished from all the allied species by the slender build of the body, the very narrow forewing. 

 with the hind margin light yellow and the large outer vitreous patch almost reaching to the outer margin, 

 the uniformly black' antenna and dark thorax, the peculiar anal brush and by the black anterior femur. Hi 

 district, one ^ in coll. Ptjngeler. 



D. roseiventris s/^ec. wov. Expanse 23mm(tJ). Similar to foe?m, but slenderer, the abdomen longer and roseivenWs. 

 more pointed, and, moreover, easily recognised by the uniformly reddish yellow ventral surface. Antenna 

 with strong and dense cilia yellow on underside at the base and distally, otherwise black. Palpi yellowish white, 



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