448 Sir G. F. Harapson on 



Dasychira phoca, sp. n. 



Abdomen without dorsal crests. 



cJ . Head and thorax black-brown ; tarsi mixed with 

 whitish ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the ventral surface 

 darker. Tore wing ochreous brown with a cupreous gloss ; 

 subbasal line blackish, excurved below costa and cell, and 

 ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, curved, 

 waved; the discocellulars defined by blackish striae ; a 

 waved blackish line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, dark, minutely dentate towards 

 costa, incurved and slightly sinuous below vein 4 ; an in- 

 distinct waved blackish subterminal line, excurved at veins 

 6 and 4 ; a series of curved blackish striae just before tertnen. 

 Hind wing white tinged with brownish ochreous. 



? . Abdomen grey tinged with ochreous brown ; fore 

 wing almost entirely suffused with black-brown ; hind wing 

 whitish tinged with fuscous brown : the underside white 

 thickly irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Uganda, Mulema {Doygetf), 1 £ tvpe. Exp. 3Q- 

 38 mm. 



Dasychira pheosia, sp. n. 



^ . Head and thorax grey mixed with white and red-brown ; 

 antennae with the branches rufous ; tips of patagia and meta- 

 thorax red-brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi red-brown streaked 

 with blackish ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, a 

 dorsal black streak on basal segments, some dark brown 

 suffusion at middle. Fore wing ochreous tinged with 

 rufous ; an interrupted red-brown streak below basal half of 

 costa and two streaks in cell ; a curved dark red-brown 

 fascia from base of costa along vein 1 to beyond middle, 

 then upwards to just before termen at vein 7; a slight 

 double streak with deep red-brown above it above medial 

 part of inner margin, bent upwards to above vein 1 at extre- 

 mity ; the tornal area greyish; reniform faintly defined 

 by some dark scales ; slight red-brown streaks below costa 

 towards apex ; a fine blackish terminal line ; cilia greyish 

 with some blackish at tips. Hind, wing yellowish white; 

 the cilia with a dark line through them; the underside with 

 faint brown spot at upper angle of cell. 



$ . Fore wing suffused with red-brown and irrorated with 

 blackish, the interspaces beyond the cell with obscure streaks, 

 the reniform more distinct, with pale centre ; hind wing 

 suffused with brown ; the underside suffused and irrorated 



