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B. Fore wing with the basal half hyaline and yellow, tiie 



outer half black with yellowish hyaline patch syntomida. 



C Fore wing black, with orange patches. 



a. Hind wing orange, with terminal black bund fucia. 



b. Hind wing black, with orange basal and postmedial 



patches qui nque macula. 



c. Hind wing black, with orange fasciae on costa and inner 



margin camboiiei. 



250. Dysauxes punctata. 



Bombyx pimctata, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 207 (1781) ; Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn. 



Ljou (2), viii. p. 2^4, pi. 4. tf. 10, 11 ; Stand. Cat. p. 50; Kirby, Cat. 



Her. p. 1U8. 

 Noctua ancilla, var., Esper, Eur. Schmett. p. 51, pi. 85. f. 3 (1786). 

 Bombyx serva, Hubn. Eur. Schmett. iii. f. 115 (1^27) ; Godt. Lep. France, 



iv. p. 381, pi. 39. f. 4. 

 Bombyx conj'aw.ula, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. iii. ff. 226, 227 (1827). 



Dark yellowish brown ; tegulae and patagia marked with orange ; 

 metathorax with an orange patch ; abdomen orange, with dorsal 



and sublateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing with yellowish-white spot in 

 cell and larger spot below the cell ; a 

 postmedial subcostal spot and two in 

 the interspaces between veins 3 and 5, 

 usually well separated, rarely larger and 

 conjoined. Hind wing orange, with 



Fig. 53. brown spot on discocellulars, and often 



Dysmixes punctata, rf. -k , *■ . , -.■ 



(From Moths India, vol. i.) ^ brown streak on median nervure ; a 



terminal brown batid, broad at costa, 

 narrowing between veins 5 and 3, then expanding and ending 

 before tornus. 



Hab. Central and S. Europe, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; W. Asia ; 

 Kashmir, Moore Coll. Exp. 2(J millim. 



Subsp. 1. hyalina, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. v. p. 152, pi. 473. f. 2 (1845) ; 

 Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. ii. p. 51, f. 127. 



Hind wing with hyaline patches more or less developed below 

 the cell and in the interspaces beyond lower angle ; fore wing with 

 the spot in cell sometimes reduced or absent. 



Hah. E. Europe, Zeller Coll. : W. Asia. 



Subsp. 2. famula, Frejer, Neuere Beitr. ii. p. 143, p). 183. ff. 2, 3 (1836). 



Usually more fulvous brown. Fore wing w^ith the spot in cell and 

 subcostal spot minute or absent ; the spot below the cell often 

 nearly obsolete. Hind wing with complete hyaline fascia below the 

 cell extending round lower angle, the orange on inner area reduced 

 or sometimes almost absent. 



Hah. E. Europe, Dalmatia ; W. Asia, Syracuse. Zeller Coll. 



Subsp. 3. sermda, Beree, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) ii. p. 386, pi. 9. f. 9 (1862). 

 Differs from the typical form in the fore wing having all the 



