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1790. DlMYA EHDKOMA. 



1791. DlMYA DENTATA. 

 1788. DlMYA CANOSPARSA. 



1788 a. Dimya albiluna, Hmpsn., Oat. Lep. Pal. B. M. vi, p. 404, pi. 

 105, f. 24 (1906). 



5 . Head and thorax dark -brown mixed with ochreous and a few white 

 hairs ; pectus with ochreous hairs ; tarsi ringed with yellow ; abdomen grey- 

 brown with the anal tuft fulvous. Forewing dark brown irrorated with 

 blue-white scales except on medial area where the costal area and 

 veins only are irrorated ; subbasal line represented by slight blackish marks 

 below costa and cell; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct; 

 angled outwards below costa, excurved from cell to inner margin ; claviform 

 moderate, defined by black; orbicular irrorated with blue-white and defined 

 by black, round ; reniform defined by blackish and with ochreous white 

 lunule on its outer edge ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellow-brown 

 defined on each side by diffused black and with brown mark on its inner 

 side below vein 7, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia black mixed with ochreous 

 and with slight black line through them. Hindwing ochreous brown with 

 slight discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused sub-terminal 

 band ; cilia ochreous with a diffused black line, near base ; the underside 

 brownish ochreous irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and rather diffused postmedial line excurved 

 at median nervures, then incurved. 



Habitat. — Sikhim Tibet, Yatung. Exp. 38 mill. 



17886. Dimya cttprescens, Hmpsn., Cat., Lep. Pal. B. M. vi, p. 405, 

 pi. 105, f. 25 (1906). 



$. Head and thorax rufous; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. 

 Porewing cupreous brown slightly suffused with purplish grey especially 

 on basal and postmedial areas ; subbasal line represented by a slight grey 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double, filled in with grey 

 waved, rather oblique ; claviform absent ; orbicular very faint with greyish 

 centre defined by cupreous brown, small, round, reniform a narrow lunule 

 with white annulus: postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line only represented by the contrast between the greyish and cupreous 

 areas; some whitish irroration on termen at extremity of veins. Hindwing 

 ochreous-white suffused with cupreous brown, the terminal area rather 

 darker ; cilia rufoiis, paler at tips ; the underside greyish irrorated with 

 brown, the costal area tinged with ochreous, a slight discoidal lunule, 

 sinuous postmedial line, and faint subterminal line. 

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