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white with a brownish line througli them except towards tornus ; the under- 

 side white irrorated with brown, a bhickish discoidal spot and indistinct 

 curved postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Kashmiu. Sciude Vallej', (loorais Valley. E.rp. ;]4 mill. 



(lenus Canna. 



Canna, Wlk., xxxiii. 790. (ISe.^) . . . . . . . , pidcliriincta . 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the i!nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the ^rd short ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round : antenna3 of male laminate ; thorax clothed 

 with elongate scales, the ^jrothorax without crest ; the mesothorax with 

 paired tufts of scales, the metathorax with spreading crest ; the patagia 

 with upturned tufts of scales at extremity ; tibi?e fringed Avith long hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crest on 4th segment large. Fore- 

 wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen excurved at middle 

 and excised below apex and towards tornus which is somewhat lobed : 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 

 3-4 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from just below middle of discocel- 

 lulars ; 6" 7 from upper angle; S anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Abdomen with the crest on 4th segment formed of long- 



black scales. 

 a. Forewing with the- medial band green tinged with 



fuscous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . prasinaria . 



I). ForeAving with the medial band red-brown . . . . malachitis. 



B. Abdomen with the crest on 4th segment formed of och- 



reous hair . . . . . . . . . . . . jmlcliripicta . 



1965. Canka pkasinakia. 



1964. CAN]SrA 3IALACHITIS. 



1963. Canxa pxtlchuipicxa. 



Genus DASBocH^iiTA. 



Type. 



Daseochceta. Warren, Seitz.. Macrolepidoptera, pt. 9, p. 11 



(1907) . . . . . . . . . . vindi)<. 



DipMherocome, Warren, Seitz, Macrolepidoptera, pt. 9, p. 11 



(1907) . . . . . . . . . . pallida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to vertex of head and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd rather long, naked ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male typically bipectinate 

 with long branches to apex ; thorax clothed with long rough hair and hair- 

 like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia 



