270 Mr. A. E. \jteman on New and Unrecorded Species 
Family LYMANTRIADAE. 
Genus DASYCHIRA. 
Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust., 11, p. 58 (1829); 
Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths, 1, p. 447 (1892). 
171 
Dasychira conjuncta, sp. 0. 
¢. Forewings grey, clouded with darker on the basal and outer 
marginal areas ; antemedial line blackish inwardly oblique, elbowed 
at costa ; postmedial line blackish, curved and recurved to just below 
vein 2 where it is connected with antemedial by a black bar, thence 
outwardly oblique to near the outer angle ; marginal line blackish, 
crenulate, commencing at apex and projected inwards on vein 2 ; 
there are indications of a whitish, serrated, submarginal line ; fringes 
grey variegated with paler at the ends of the nervules. Hindwings 
fuscous with blackish discal dot and marginal line ; fringes pale 
grey flecked with darker between the nervules. Underside whitish 
tinged with fuscous especially on the forewings ; all the wings have 
a dusky discal spot and postmedial line. 
Expanse 42 mm. 
Male type from Yoshino, Yamato, June, 1900. 
A series of eleven male specimens taken at Yoshino, 
Yamato, in June, 1895, 1899, 1900 and 1901. The series 
shows but little variation in colour and varies in expanse 
from 38 mm. to 42 mm, I have never taken a female. 
Local distribution. HONDO. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 217. 
172. 
Dasychira nigra. 
Selea nigra, Hampson, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xi, 
p- 440 (1897); Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1903, p. 469. 
Twenty-one male specimens taken in the following 
localities: Yoshino, Yamato, June, July, August and 
September, 1899, 1900; Tobetsu and Shiokubi, Oshima, 
Yezo, July and August, 1902, 1908. 
Hitherto unrecorded from Japan. 
Local distribution. Honpbo; YEZzo. 
General distribution. SYKHIM (type); JAPAN. 
Collection number, 144. 
