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clothed cliiefly with scales, the tegiilte dorsally produced to a ridge ; the head, 

 pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; pectus and tibite clothed with long 

 hair ; abdomen witli dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore 

 wing rather narrow, the terraen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

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

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennte of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the terminal area blackish lubrica. 



B. Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous ohliqioisigiia, 



2459. Dichonia lubrica. 



Hadena hihrica, Butl. 111. Het. 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 228. 



B. M. vii. p. 60, pi. 128. f. 9 (1889) 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grej' ; palpi blackisH 

 at sides except at extremity of 2nd and 3rd joints ; tegulse with 

 black medial line ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; tarsi 

 blackish with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with brownish fuscous 

 and irrorated with black, the postmedial area paler, the terminal 

 area darker ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line double filled in with whitish, angled inwards in cell and ending 

 at the black streak ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; clavi- 

 form large, defined by black, rather acute at extremity, with black 

 streak from it to postmedial line and bidentate white patch beyond 



Fig. 87. — Dichonia lubrica, (^ , \, 



it ; orbicular and reniform large, greyish, defined by black, the 

 former oblique elliptical ; postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some grey 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey, faintly defined by 

 dark scales on inner side, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, excurved at middle and angled inwards in discal and sub- 

 median folds, with black streaks beyond it in the interspaces ; a 

 waved terminal line ; cilia with white line at base. Hind wing 

 pale, almost entirely suff'used and irrorated with purplish brown ; a 

 dark terminal line ; cilia white with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, Dharmsala {Hocking), 1 S type. Exp. 46 millim. 



