450 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



Dasychira bryophilina, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax yellowish white with a black bar on 

 prothorax and paired spots on meso- and metathorax; palpi 

 and lower part of frons hlack ; antennae with short black 

 branches ; femora black above, the tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with black; abdomen white suffused with black. Fore wing 

 yellowish white; a curved black subbasal line from costa to 

 below vein 1 near base, emitting a short streak below costa ; 

 the antemcdial area with slight black striga above inner 

 margin; antemedial line strong, black, angled outwards at 

 median nervnre and inwards at submedian fold ; a black 

 patch at middle of" inner margin conjoining the antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial lines ; a small round black spot at 

 middle of cell ; reniform defined by black and with some 

 black in centre; medial line oblique from costa to reniform 

 and incurved from cell to the black patch, some black suffu- 

 sion beyond it below costa aud cell; postmedial line black, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards 

 at discal fold, below vein 4 incurved to near the medial line 

 and pi'oduced to very short streaks at the veins ; a black 

 spot on costa before apex, very slight subterminal streaks 

 on the veins, and an oblique black bar at tornus ; a black 

 terminal line ; cilia intersected by black streaks. Hind wing 

 white tinged with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous ; a slight discoidal lunule and terminal series of 

 points and striae ; cilia pure white ; the underside with the 

 costal area suffused and irrorated with blackish, the discoidal 

 lunule stronger. 



Hub. Cape Colony, Deelfontein (Sloggeti), 1 ? type. 

 E.rp. 32 mm. 



Allied to D. octophora, Hmpsn. 



Dasychira pyrosuma, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax white, the tegulae, upper part of 

 patagia, throat, fore femora, and the tibiae tinged with yellow ; 

 palpi with the second joint black above, tinged with yellow in 

 front; antennas with the branches rufous; abdomen white, 

 the basal segment with slight dorsal tuft of orange-red 

 hair, the second to sixth segments with broad fiery scarlet 

 subdorsal bands, leaving slight white segmental lines and a 

 dorsal streak. Fore wing silvery white; traces of a Insinuate 

 yellowish antemedial line and of a discoidal lunule defined by 

 yellowish ; the terminal area with four faint curved yellowish 

 lines ; cilia faintly yellowish at base. Hind wing silvery 

 white. 



