58 LIPAEID^. 



Euproctis bifascia. (Plate CXLI. fig. 8.) 



Expanse If.j inch. 



Female i^ure white. Fore wing with two orange-yellow bands, the first antemedial 

 slightly inwardly oblique and waved, the other submarginal and consisting of spots in the 

 interspaces, growing slightly smaller towards costa, and bent inwards a very little at second 

 median nervule. Anal tuft pale brown. 



Mardara femimila. (Plate CXLI. figs. 1, 7.) 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Male. Allied to M. bhana, Moore. Fore wing with the markings less distinct; the 

 ochreous spot at end of cell almost obsolete ; the series of submarginal black lunulas further 

 from the outer margin. Hind wing darker. Underside with the whole disk of fore wing 

 dusky black. Hind wing with the black spot at end of cell larger and lunulate, not round ; 

 the parallel submarginal bands wider and nearer the margin. An antecilial black line to both 

 wings. 



Female. Much smaller and quite distinct from that sex of M. bhana. Fore wing 

 violaceous grey, irrorated with dark scales ; three irregular waved brown bands crossing the 

 wing — the first medial, the second beyond the end of cell, and anastomosing with the first at 

 inner margin, the third submarginal ; a double lunule at end of cell. Hind wing paler and 

 immaculate ; cilia darker. Underside uniform dusky grey. Head and thorax clothed with 

 long iron-grey hairs. Abdomen paler. 



Dasychira nilgirica. (Plate CXLI. figs. 13, 14.) 



Expanse, ^ If, ? 3^ inches.' 



Male. Fore wing : basal area white, powdered with black scales ; medial and outer areas 

 pale dusky brown ; a subbasal irregular obsolescent black transverse line ; two medial in- 

 wardly-obUque lines forming an irregular band, the costal portion of which is in the white 

 area, the inner portion in the dusky area ; a large reniform spot outlined with black ; a waved 

 transverse black line beyond it ; a series of obscure white submarginal lunules. Hind wing : 

 basal and abdominal areas tawny, outer and apical areas dusky brown ; an indistinct spot at 

 end of cell ; an obsolescent submarginal band, more distinct on underside. Antennae red-brown 

 with white shaft. Head and thorax white ; abdomen tawny above, white below. Legs white. 



Female. Wings white ; head, thorax, and fore wing irrorated with black scales, the latter 

 crossed by three indistinct bands — antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal. Tibise and tarsi 

 of legs spotted with black above. 



A pair bred from larvt-e feeding together. 



Nearest to D. horsfieldii and D. kasuuUa, the fore wings of which are more uniformly 

 coloured, the bands less distinct and differently situated. The outer area of hind wing of 

 latter species is white. 



