22 intoctuid.e. 



Genus DASEOCH^TA. ,. 



Tjpe. 



Laseochmta, Warren, Seitz. Macrolepidoptera, pt. 9, p. 11 (1907) . viridis. 

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



(1907) pallida. 



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

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

 irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male typically ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with long rough hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests, the patagia tufted at extremity ; tibiic fringed with hair ; ab- 

 domen with dorsal series of crests, large at middle. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved und not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 w ith the cell near base only 



Sect. I. {fiaaeoclicBta). Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to apex. 



3595. Da-seochseta viridis. 



Agriopis viridis, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 502, pi. 51. f. 6. 



Head and thorax j-ellow-green ; palpi black ; sides of frons 

 brown ; antennae brown ; tegulse -with black band at base and 

 black lunnles at middle ; pro- and metathorax with black bands ; 

 pectus ochreous white ; fore tibiae streaked with black, the mid and 

 hind tibiae banded with black, the tarsi banded black and white ; 

 abdomen dark red-brown, the ventral surface whitish at middle. 



Baseochoeta viridis, (^ . 



Fore wing yellow-green ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa followed by a striga ; a short black streak in base of sub- 

 median fold; a slight subbasal black streak above inner margin ; 

 antemedial line black defined by white on outer side, double at 

 costa, incurved in cell, then waved, excurved in submedian inter- 

 space and oblique to inner margin ; claviform short and broad, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and renit'orm large, defined by black 

 and white at sides, open above and below, the former round, a 

 blackish streak between them above median nervure ; an irregular 

 medial black bar from costa and a waved line from cell to inner 

 margin interrupted above the claviform, then teaching it ; post- 

 medial line double at costa, strongly bent outwards and obsolete 



