DASYSTERNXJUr. 



409' 



Sect. II. Antennre of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing whitish sufFused or irrorated with fuscous. 



a. Fore wiug with the postmedial area darker than the medial 



area hcsretica. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial area paler than the medial 



area anceps. 



B. Fore wing greyish thickly irrorated and striated with red- 



brown eristica. 



2601. Dasystemum hseretica. (Plate CV. fig. 30.) 



Folia hcerctica, Piing. Iris, xv. p. 153, pi. v. f. 12 (1902). 



(^ . Head and thorax brownish white ; palpi blackish at sides : 

 pectus and legs irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen brownish white dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing- 

 brownish white irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented 

 by black points below costa and cell ; antemedial line rather in- 

 distinct, oblique, waved ; claviform represented by a few black 

 scales ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, slightly open above 

 and below, the former round, some fuscous suifusion between and 

 beyond them ; postmedial line indistinctly double, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, some fuscous suffusion beyond it to the subterminal line 

 which is not otherwise defined, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing 

 white slightly irrorated with brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; the 

 underside with discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hab. W. TuKKESTAN, Askabad, 1 J . -fi'.t'p. 36 millim. Type "^ 

 (5 in Coll. Piingeler, 



id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



2602. Dasystemum anceps. 



Folia anceps. Stand. Iris, x. p. 277, pi. 4. f. 17 (1897) 

 p. 179. 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 fuscous at sides except 3rd joint, tai'si with slight fuscous bands 

 abdomen ochreous white dorsally sufFused with fuscous. Fore wing 



Fig. 137. — Dasystemum anceps, (^ . \. 



dirty white irrorated with fuscous and suffused in parts with i'uscous 

 especially on medial and terminal areas ; some fuscous suffusion on 

 basal costal area, traces of a subbasal line from costa to submediau 



