468 Colonel C. Swinboe's Revision of the 



Dasychira tenebrosa. 



Dasychira tenehrosa, Walker, xxxii, 361 (1865). 



1 ^, 1 $, Dalhousie. 5 $, Yatong, Thibet. 4 ^, 3 $, 

 Darjiling, including tbe type, 5 $, W. China. 



Dasychira bhana. 

 Dasychira hhana, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 804. 



4 ^, Darjiling, including the type. 



The same size as tenebrosa, but can at once be distin- 

 guished by its large dull ochreous spot at the end of the 

 cell of fore-wings, instead of the black stigma of that 

 species. 



Dasychira nigritula. 

 Dasychira nigritula, Walker, xxxii, 360 (1865). 



1 ^, 2 $, N. India, including the type. 



Much larger than the two preceding forms, the ochreous 

 spot at the end of the cell very large, in some examples in 

 the form of a patch, prominent in fresh examples. 



Dasychira feminula. 

 Mardarafeminula, Hmpsn., 111. Het., viii, p. 58, pi. 141, £f. 1, 



7 (1891). 



6 ^, 7 $, Nilgiri Hills, including the type. 



This is the South India form of the hhana group ; the 

 great difference in the female is quite enough to differ- 

 entiate it ; the male is as large as nigritula, and the 

 ochreous markings on the transverse bands of the fore- 

 wings are more distinct and conspicuous. 



Dasychira chinensis, nov. 



(J , $ . Greyish-brown ; palpi black above ; antennae with whitish 

 shafts ; fore-wings variegated with greyish-white in both sexes, more 

 especially on the outer half ; four transverse, indistinct, brown lines, 

 subbasal and medial both sinuous, discal dentated and recurved, 

 submarginal line lunular, followed by a marginal row of lunules 

 with whitish inner parts, and brown spear-shaped marks pointing 

 inwards ; hind-wings brown, with indications of a darker discal 

 band ; cilia of both wings ochreous with brown patches ; under-side 

 pale olive-grey ; a double discal thin brown band across both wings ; 

 a large brown lunular mark at the end of the cell of hind-wings, 

 cilia as above. 



Expanse of wings ^J 44 mm., $ 56 mm. 



