DASi'STEENUM. 407 



ochreoiis yellow, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal lunule, and diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, 1 5; Sikhim Tibet, Yatong (Hobson), 2(5,15; 

 BiKHiM (Holler, Ehues), 2 cJ , 7 $ , type ; Assam, Khjisis. Exj). 

 36 millim. 



Genus DASYSTERNUIVr. 



Type. 



Basystermcm, Stand. Iris, viii. j). 327 (1895) tibetana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the second joint reaching vertex 

 of liead and fringed with long hair in front, the third typically rather long ; 

 frons smooth ; antennte of male typically almost simple ; head and thorax 

 clothed with long hair and without crests ; tibite fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest on basal segment and some long hair on dorsum. Fore wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3 and 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeellulars ; (>, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna? of male bipectinate with long branches, the apex simple. 



A. Fore wing white irrorated with pale browa lea. 



B. Fore wing pale yellowish slightly irrorated with brown judifha. 



C. Fore wing ochreous suffused with pale red-brown backer i. 



2598. Dasy sternum lea. 



Folia lea, Stand. Iris, x. p. 280, pi. 4. f. 18 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 179. 



S . Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown ; palpi with 

 some dark brown hair; fore tarsi banded with fuscous; abdomen 

 white irrorated with brown. Fore wing white thickly irrorated 

 with pale reddish brown ; the eosta with series of fuscous marks ; 

 traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submediau fold ; ante- 

 medial line defined by white on inner side, minutely waved, strongly 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with ill-defined 

 Avliite annul!, the former round, the latter irregular and with traces 



Fig. 136. — Dasy siernu ill lea, cJ. \. 



of whitish spots on its outer edge ; postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and 

 angled ontwards on vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line very indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, H : a terminal series of slight dark lunules ; 

 cilia chequered whitish and pale brown. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, with diffused dark postmedial line angled outwards at vein 4 ; 

 a terminal series of brown striae. 



Hab. Palestink, 1 c? . Exp. 36 millim. 



