448 LYMANTBIIDjE. 



B. Abdomen smoothly scaled. 



a. Female with the branches of antenna long ; abdomen ivithout 

 dorsal crests. 



998. Dasychira lineata, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 875 ; Butl. HI. Het. v, pi. 91 , 

 fig. 3 ; C.Sf S. no. 1023. 



$ . White. Fore wing with a fine antemedial black line angled 

 on median nervure ; indistinct dentate postmedial and submarginal 

 lines, the postmedial line dividing and outlining the discocellulars ; 

 a marginal series of specks to both wings. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Sylhet ; E. Pegu. Exp. 85 millim. 



b. Female with the branches of antenna? short ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on anterior segments. 



999. Dasychira horsfieldi, Sattnd. Trans. Ent. &>c.n.s. i, 1851, p. 1G2; 



Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. pi. xiv, figs. 13, 13 a (larva). 

 Dasychira grotei, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 338 ; C. 8f S. no. 982. 

 Dasychira kausalia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 401 ; C. fy S. no. 983. 

 Dasychira arga, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 339. 

 Dasychira nilgirica, Hmpm. III. Het. viii, p. 58, pi. Ml. figs. !". I I. 



Fig. 309. Dasychira hortfieldi , tf. \. 



c? . Head and thorax whitish grey, the branches of antennae red- 

 brown ; abdomen orange with the anal tuft grey ; legs spotted 

 with black. Fore wing greyish white, irrorated with dark scales 

 and slightly suffused with brown ; a dentate subbasal black line ; 

 two medial lines, the inner nearly straight, the outer waved ; the 

 reniforni spot with dark outline ; a waved postmedial line, bent 

 outwards near inner margin ; an irregularly dentate submarginal 

 line. Hind wing pale ; the inner area orange ; a more or less 

 prominent dark spot at end of cell; Ihe outer area generally 

 suffused with fuscous. Underside with prominent cell-spots to both 

 wings. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing white, slightly powdered with 

 grey ; the last with indistinct diffused antemedial, postmedial, and 

 submarginal lines. Abdomen and hind wing pure white. 



Larva yellow, with tufts of long yellow hairs ; 4th to 7th and llth 



