2^ NOCTUID.T,. 



3601. Daseochseta fasciata. 



Diphthera fasciata, Moore, P.Z. S. 1888, p. 408 ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. 

 p. 30, pi. 122. f. 1 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 295. 



Palpi black, white at tips ; head brownish white, the vertex 

 green, the sides of frons black, the antennas brown, white at base; 

 tegulae and patagia blue-green, the dorsum of thorax brownish 

 white ; pectus green at sides, black-brown ventrally ; tibiae green 

 with black marks, the tarsi banded black-brown and white ; abdo- 

 men brownish white with large black-brown ventral patch. Fore 

 Aving pale blue-green with some darker suffusion before the ante- 

 medial and beyond the postmedial line ; subbasal line represented 

 by a black point on costa followed by a bar; a very short black 

 streak below base of cell and an oblique white fascia above a 

 curved black fascia on inner area extending to the antemedial line, 

 which is represented by an oblique striga from costa and a line 

 slightly denned by white on outer side from subcostal nervure to 

 the black streak above inner margin, bent outwards at median 

 nervure, angled outwards in submedian fold, then incurved ; the 

 medial area with white streak in submedian fold with black point 

 on it at extremity of claviform : orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black and white at side and with quadrate black patch between 

 them, open above and below, the former round, a black bar from 

 costa to the black patch, a point on inner margin and a small black 

 lunule in submedian fold on inner edge of the postmedial line, which 

 is represented by two black points on costa and a black line defined 

 by white on inner side from below costa much nearer termen, 

 angled inwards in discal fold, outwards on veins 4, 3, then bent 

 inwards and outwardly oblique to inner margin, a black spot with 

 white point on it beyond it on costa: cilia with slight black-brown 

 lunules at tips. Hind wing pale blue-green with some ochreous 

 hair on inner area ; a diffused blackish discoidal spot ; the under- 

 side with strong black bar from costa to the discoidal spot and two 

 spots on inner area, postmedial points below costa and vein 7 and 

 small spots in discal and submedian folds and above inner margin. 



Hah. W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 ^ , 1 $ ; Punjab, Laka (Hocking), 

 1 § ; Sikuim, 1 $ . Exp. 44 millim. 



Sect. IV. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



3602. Daseochseta chrysochlora. 



Diphthera chrysochlora, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 445(1897). 



Head and thorax bright yellow-green ; palpi brown above, whitish 

 at tips ; frons whitish tinged with rufous ; antenna) brown, ochreous 

 at tips ; pectus and legs rufous, the fore tibire green in front ; abdo- 

 men rufous, the crest on 3rd segment green, the ventral surface 

 whitish irrorated with red-brown. Pore wing bright yellow-green 



