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DIPSOSPHECIA. By M. Baetel. 



first and second segments striped with black on outside. Frons dark, anterior margins of eyes whitish, likewise 

 the hind margin of the head. Thorax black, clothed with yellowish hair; tip of patagia and the rather large 

 shoulder-spot yellow. Abdomen black, with a narrow yellow belt on segment 2 and a broad one on 4, 6 and 

 7. Anal tuft black, mixed with yellowish, the base laterally striped with yellow, beneath reddish yellow. Legs 

 yellowish, ringed with black; the black femora of mid and hind legs beneath (outwards) margined witli red. 

 Forewing black, dusted with yellow, outer area with whitish spots. Median band dark, not bounded with 

 yellow. Longitudinal patch well-developed, wedge-spot short as in ^ of loewii, but whitish, as is also the outer 

 vitreous patch, which consists of 3 spots, and bears in front and behind the vestige of an additional spot. 

 Base of hindwing black, the black outer border extending to the base; fringes of liind margin reddish white; 

 cross-vein as in loewii incrassate anteriorly. ■ — Ili district, 1 (J. Similar to pudorina Stgr., but considerably 

 less red, wnth atrophied proboscis, prominent wlute shoulder-spots, and distinctly dark-ringed liind tibia. 



ceiformis. D. celformis Stgr. As in megillaeformis the upperside of the antennae entirely black and the abdomen 



bearing yellow dorsal belts on segment 2, 4, 6 and in $ also 7. But the anal brush is entirely black above in 

 (J, and yellow in the centre on underside; in 9 above and beneath golden yellow in the centre and black 

 at the sides ; on underside segments 4 is in cJ almost entirely yellow, 7 for the greater part, and 6 bears traces 

 of yellow; in $ segment 4 almost entirely yellow and 6 has traces of yellow. Distal border of forewing broader 

 pale yellow outwardly; hind margin of forewing entirely scaled with yellowish red in $, yellow in ^. Palpi of 

 cJ black, the second segment long-hairy and end-segment yellow; in $ yellow, only black at the base. Head 

 black in ^, -with long whitish hair on vertex; entirely yellow in $, mixed with some black hairs at the hind 

 margin. Thorax without yellow margins to the patagia, in (J strongly mixed with whitish hair, in $ with 

 slight wiiite shoulder-spot near the base of the costal margin of forewing. ■ — ■ Central Asia (Osh, end of August ; 

 Lepsa, middle of June; Saissan in the Tarbagatai, July). 



lasicera. D. lasicera Hamps. Proboscis absent ; palpi with the 2nd joint fringed with very long hair in front and 



reaching above vertex of head, the 3rd joint long; antennae of male with fascicles of very long hair. Head 

 and thorax black, with some white hair; palpi ochreous, with some black hair and scales, white behind; frons 

 wlxite ; legs mostly white, with some ochreous hair and black scales ; abdomen black, with ochreous and white 

 segmental bands except on 1st segment, the band on 3rd segment slight, the ventral surface with the 

 bands broad, the anal tuft ochreous with subdorsal black streaks. Forewing with the costal area black-brown, 

 with ochreous streak on costa to beyond middle and slight streaks in the interspaces ; the median nervure and 

 veins 4, 5 black-brown; the inner area ochreous wliite; the cell and a slight streak below it before middle and 

 streaks beyond it above veins 3 to 6 hyahne; discoidal spot black- brown with ochreous outer edge; a terminal 

 black-brown line with ochreous suffusion on its inner side, cilia pale brown. Hindwing hyaline with some black 

 at base, the veins and margins black; cilia pale brown, yellowish white towards tornus. (Copied from Hampson). 

 — From Tibet (Gyantze). 



tancrei. D.taticrei Piing. (52b). A peculiar species which can hardly be compared with any of the others. Expanse 



25 mm ($). Both wings opaque, being entirely covered with orange-yellow scales, only the narrow distal 

 border being smoky brown and the fringes smoke-grey. The base of both wings, and the costal margin and 

 median band of the forewing are black, the mechan band being bordered with orange-yellow on outside. The 

 most distal portion of the wedge-shaped area and the whole outer vitreous patch covered by shghtly pale 

 scaUng. Frons and palpi orange-yellow; the latter with long brown hair on segments 1 and 2, the basal segment 

 with some dark hairs. Body and antennae blue-black, the latter beneath with the basal segment yellow. Pa- 

 tagia wth thin brownish inner edge and without pale shoulder-spot. On each side of metathorax a brown 

 tuft of hair. Abdominal segments 2, 4 and 6 bearing a narrow belt each, the two posterior belts being conti- 

 nuous beneath. Anal tuft entirely black or with a thin orange median stripe above. Breast without coloured 

 spot near bases of wings. Legs black; tibiae orange, tarsi yellow, the tibiae with brown base. ■ — Central Asia 

 (Altyn-Tag). In aberrant ?$ the yellow scaling is less dense and more brownish, and the veins are blackish, 

 contrasting with the ground. In the 3* the golden yellow scaling is absent according toPuNGELER, the forewing 

 only being yellowish at the hind margin and at the outer side of the black median spot. Palpi dark, only the 

 middle segment yellowish above. Antenna distinctly ciliate, long; vertex, thorax and abdomen clothed with 

 long grey hair; the abdomen with yellowish wiiite belts on segments 4, 6 and 7. Anal tuft dark, beneath 

 extended yellowish wiiite in the centre. Legs yellowish, with dark spots. 



polyzona. D. polyzona Piing. (50 h). We figure here a new species of which Herr E. Pungeler has been so kind 



as to send me the following diagnosis: "Expanse 25 mm. Similar to viguraea Piing., larger, more elongate, 

 wedge-patch without dark streak, longitudinal patch only scaled in the outer portion, outer patch 5-partite, 

 patagia yellow, abdomen with 6 yellow belts in c? and 5 in $, the middle one covering the whole segment, 

 proboscis atrophied. Antenna of q densely and strongly ciliate, middle segment of palpi dark with the hair 

 much stronger than in the $, the sexes otherwise differing but Uttle. — Trancaspia, Merv, 1 $, Central Asia, 

 Ilidistrict, 2 ^^, 1 $". Type in coll. Pungeler. 

 viguraea, D. viguraea Piing. (50 h). Like the preceding lent to us for publication by Herr R. Pungeler, who 



sent the following diagnosis: "Expanse 21 mm. $: outline and structure of the body as in the $ of ichneumoni- 



