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tut'tfcsd at extremity ; tibiie fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series 

 of crests, large at middle. Forewing with the apex ronnded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 (i from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3'4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; H- 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. II. {Diphthcrocoiite). Antennte of male bipectinate with moderate 

 branches, the apical fourth ciliated. 



1967. DASEOCHiETA PALLIDA. 



Sect. III. Antennre of male bipectinate with short branches, the apical 

 third ciliated. 



.i. Hindwing with broad brownish subterminal band . . vigens. 

 H. Hindwing without subterminal band. 



II. Forewing with large quadrate black mark in out- 

 median interspace before postmedial line . . brevipennis. 

 I). Forewing with slight black spot in submedian 



interspace before postmedial line . . . . fasciata. 



1966. Daseoch^I'/ia vigens. 



1967«. DASCOOH.ETA BEBVIPBNjS'IS. 



Dmeochceta hrevipennis, Hwpsii., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. viii., p. 27, pi. 123, 

 f. 21 (1909). 



Head and thorax pale blue-green ; palpi black ; antennse brown ; shoul- 

 ders with black patches ; tibise with black spots, the tarsi banded black 

 and white ; abdomen ochreoua white dorsally suffused with ochreous brown, 

 ventrally black-brown. Forewing pale blue-green, the basal and post- 

 medial areas suffused with olive-green ; subbasal line represented by 

 a black striga from costa ; a short black streak in base of sub-median 

 fold, and a curved black streak above inner margin from near base 

 to the antemedial line, which is black defined on outer side by white, in- 

 curved in cell, angled outwards in submedian fold, then incurved and 

 ending at the streak above inner margin ; claviform minute, defined by 

 some black scales above and at extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black and white at sides and with quadrate black patch 

 between them, the former small, round, sometimes defined by black below; 

 a black bar from middle of costa and oblique striga from inner margin ; 

 the medial area with white fascia in svibmedian fold ending in a quadrate 

 black spot before postmedial line with spurs above and below from its 

 inner edge ; j)Ostmedial line black defined by white on inner side, bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved and slightly angled 

 at veins 4*3, then strongly incurved to submedian fold, and excurved to 

 inner margin, some black points beyond it on costa, followed by a trian- 

 gular spot; a series of black points formed by diffused scales towards 



