Old World Lymantriidse in the National Collection. 475 



Dasychira subflava. 



Anaxila subjiava. Walker, iv, 918 (1855), 



1 $, Ashanti (type). 



The type has a female body put on it wrong side forward ; 

 it is a mere fragment, but was evidently once a Dasychira. 



Dasychira difficilis. 



Aroa difficilis, Walker, xxxii, 328 (1865). 



3 $, Natal, including the type. 



Walker described this type example as a male. 



Dasychira enos. 

 Aroa (?) cnos, Druce, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xvii, p. 353 

 (1896). 



1 $, Sapele, Niger River. 



The type, a female, from Old Calabar, is in coll. Druce. 



Dasychira strigata. 



Dasychirct strigata, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 58 (1879). 



Hmpsn., Moths, India, i, p. 449 (1892). 

 „ „ Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. N. H. (7), xii, 



p. 197 (1903). 

 Dasychira niveosparsa, Butler, 111. Het., v, p. 59, pi. 91, f 7 

 \l881). 



1 $, Masuri (type). 1 $, Darjiling (Butler's type). 1 $, 

 Khasia Hills. 



1 have it also from the last-named locality; the male 

 does not differ much from the female ; the transverse 

 duplex bands on the fore-wings are less sinuous, and the 

 abdomen and hind-wings are more ochreous. Expanse of 

 wings 2^^ inches. 



Dasychira viola. 



Callitcctra viola, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), iv, p. 240 

 (1879). 



2 $, Madagascar, including the type. 



Dasychira chloroptera. 



Dasychira chloroptera, Hmpsn., Moths, India, i, p. 450 

 (1892). 



1 $, Khasia Hills (type). 



