Old World Lymantriidai in the National Collection. 467 



4 ^, 8 $, Java, including the type $. 



The type of costiplaga $ from Sarawak is in Mus. Oxon. 



Dasychira misana. 



Dasychira misana, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, ii, p. 840, pL 

 9a, f. 2 (1859). 



2 $, Java, including the type. 



Dasychira whitei. 



(Ecura whitei, Druce, Ann. Mag. N. H. (7), i, p. 209 (1898). 



1 ^, Old Calabar. 2 $, Natal. 1 $, Durban. 

 The type from W. Africa is in coll. Druce. 



Dasychira goodii. 



(Ecura goodii, Holland, Psyche, vi, p. 890, pi. 9, ff. 8, 4 



(1893). 

 1 $, Ogove River (Holland). 3 $, Sierra Leone. 

 The types from the Ogove River are in coll. Holland. 



Dasychira costalis. 



3Ielia costalis, Walker, iv, 808 (1855). 



8 ^, 7 $, Java, including the type $. 1 $, Heipaw,. 

 Burma. 



Dasychira cromptoni, nov. 



^ . Antennse grey, shafts white ; palpi, frons, and thorax greyish- 

 ochreous ; fore-wings ochreous fawn colour ; two black subbasal 

 marks, a brown obscure spot in the cell, a white lunule at the end 

 with a white dot above and another below it, an antemedial semi- 

 dentate erect brown line, a postmedial brown band from centre of 

 hind margin straight to the costa one-fourth from apex, where it 

 curves in ; within this band there is a very fine semi-dentate blackish 

 line with pale points ; an oblique row of blackish-brown spots 

 parallel to the second line ; the lower portion of the space between 

 the first line and the band brighter ochreous than the rest of the 

 wing ; hind-wings pale ochreous-grey, without markings ; under-side 

 of wings uniform ochreous-grey, with an oblique grey line in the disc 

 of each wing ; body and legs ochreous ; tarsi with black spots. 



Expanse of wings ly\ inclies. 



1 $, Old Calabar (Crom2)ton) (type). 2 $, River Niger 

 (Saynpson). 



The Niger examples are without any ochreous tinge, 

 but the markings are identical. 



