452 LYMANTEIIDJE. 



wholly purplish grey ; the fore wing irrorated with dark specks 

 with waved ante- and postmedial brown lines which meet at inner 

 margin ; a brown spot at end of cell and an irregular submarginal 

 brown band ; the hind wing pale grey. 



Hob. Sikhim; Nilgiri plateau. Exp., rf 43-52, $ 47-52 millim. 



1012. Dasychiramcerens, Feld. Meis. Nov. pi. 99, fig. 4 (?) ; 7/w////. 



111. Het. ix, pi. 160, fig. 1 ( J), pi. 176, fig. 1 (larva) ; C. $ 8. 

 no. 985. 



cJ. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing dark olive-brown; 

 the last with double subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial \\a\vd 

 and angulated lines ; submargiual and marginal series of indist inct 

 lunulate marks ; the reniform with indistinct dark outline. Hind 

 wing black-brown, the cilia red-brown. Underside red-brown 

 variegated with dark brown. 



$ much paler, the lines of the fore wing outlined with purplish 

 grey. 



Larva dark brown with a reddish lateral line ; two long dark 

 brown dorsal tufts on 4th and llth somites, and two shorter pale 

 brown tufts on 5th, 6th, and 7th somites. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp., <$ 42, 60 millim. 



SECT. II. (Olene). Fore wing of female produced at apex, the outer 

 margin excised; abdomen with dorsal crests. 



1013. Dasychira mendosa, Jfiibn. Zutr. ii, j.. li. ti-s. L".I:;. L".J : Moore, 



Lt'p. Ceyl ii, pi. 115, figs. 4, 4 , b (larva) ; C. Sf 8. no. lo:J7. 

 Olene basivitta, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, ],. l:;r, ; C. 8f S. no. 1 <):;->. 

 Nioda fusiformis, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1070 ; C. % S. no. 1036. 

 Rilia lanceolate, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 107o. 

 Antipha basalis, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 806 ; C. fy S. no. 1040. 

 Dasychira sawanta, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 340. 

 Dasychira divisa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. ;:!. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the abdominal tut'l 

 dark. Fore wing with a subbasal incurved dark line ; waved ante- 

 and postmedial lines, the latter recurved beyond end of cell and 

 incurved below the end; a waved submarginal line. Hind \\ing 

 pale, the outer area slightly suffused with brown. 



In the form mendosa = fusiformis the fore wing is nearly uniform 

 brown with a pale round patch outside the subbasal line : in divisa 

 the whole costal half of the fore wing is suffused with white except 

 a patch on the costa before the apex : in basalis the subbasal patch 

 is dark brown and elongate ; there is a pale line before the ante- 

 medial line and on each side of the discocellulars, and some grey 

 near apex and outer angle. 



$ . The subbasal line of fore wing almost obsolete ; the waved 

 dark lines prominent ; the reniform pale brown with dark outline ; 

 a diffused dark fascia from the base to outer margin, leaving the 

 costa and inner margin pale, in some specimens interrupted by the 

 area between the ante- and postmedial lines being pale. 



