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white on lower part ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, with series 

 of white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, exciirved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, soravj Avhite points on costa bej-ond it ; 

 subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of slight fuscous lunules ; cilia inter- 

 sected with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous suffused with rufous, 

 rather paler towards base ; cilia ochreous white, with a rufous line 

 through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with rufous, a 

 discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Ab. 1. cervina. Pore wing pale rufous, with white streak on 

 median nervure. — S. llussia, E. Siberia. 



Ab. 2. bovina. Fore Aviug brownish rufous, with the median 

 nervure defined by whitish streaks towards extremity, the series of 

 points almost obsolete. — W. Turkestan. 



Ab. 3. furcata. Fore wing reddish, with white streaks on the 

 veins. — Urals. 



Ab. 4. pomerana. Fore wing with prominent white streaks on 

 the veins. — S. Germany, W. Turkestan. 



Ab. o. alhina. Fore wing greyish ochreous, with white streaks 

 on the veins. — Mongolia. 



Bab. S. Geemaxt, Pomerania, Zcller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 AtrsTRiA, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; 

 S. Russia, Urals ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 d" , Ferghana, 

 Issyk-Kul ; Mongolia, Uliassutai ; E. Sibkria. Exp. 38-40 millim. 



Genus DASYGASTER. 



Type. 

 Basygastcr, Guen. Noct. i. p. 201 (1852) hoUandice. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with liair in front, the 

 3rd joint porrect ; frons with small rounded prominence, with slight corneous 

 plate below it ; eves large, rounded ; antennte of male typically with bristles 

 and cilia ; head and tliorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and 

 metathorax with spreading crests; pectus and abdomen clothed with long hair, 

 the latter with dorsal crests at base and lateral fringes of hair, long in male. 

 Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to forui 

 the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate, with moderate branches. 



A. Fore wing with the claviform present, defined by white erigrapha. 



B. Fore wing with the claviform absent ligniplena. 



*1821. Dasygaster eugrapha. (Plate XCI. fig. 12.) 



Basygaster eugrapha, Turner, ined. 

 tS . Head and thorax clothed with dark brown, rufous, and grey 



