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from the eiglith. segment white bordered in front; a black spot above the legs 

 Pupa pale olivaceous-red, thorax bro-miish, red spotted ; slightly hairy. 



" Feeds on Citrus." (Thvaites.) 



OLENE rUSIFORMIS (Plate 115, Fig. 3, ?). 

 Nioda fusiformis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1070 (1855), 5. 

 Female. Greyish brownish.-white : forewing crossed by a brown zigzag ante- 

 medial line and a darker postmedial double lunular band, the medial area whitish, 

 the basal and discal areas brownish ; some dark brown streaks at the base, and a 

 dark brown discocellular lunular mark with contiguous outer patch ; a submarginal 

 series of pale-bordered black lunules : hindwing brownish-white. Body, antennae, 

 and legs pale brownish-white. 

 Expanse, ? If inch. 



OLENE BASIVITTA (Plate 115, Fig. 2, $). 

 Rilia hasivitta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 436 (1865), ?. 

 ? Nioda transversa, Walker, id. p. 434, ^. 



Female. Pale brownish-ochreous : forewing minutely brown speckled ; crossed 

 by an indistinct antemedial and a postmedial slender blackish Line ; some submarginal 

 indistinct black points ; a short blackish basal streak below the cell, one below the 

 lower median vein, and another on the costa before the apex ; a brown patch beyond 

 the cell : hindwing paler. 



Expanse, 5 1| inch. 



Genus DASYCHIRA. 

 Dasychira, Stephens, lUust. B. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 58 (1828). 



Male : forewing elongated, narrow ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before 

 end of the cell, second at one-eighth, trifid, third from second at one-fifth from its 

 base, fifth, from end of the cell, ascending upward and touching third near its base ; 

 discocellular inwardly oblique, bent below the middle, radial from upper end of cell ; 

 two upper medians from an angle at end of the cell, second at one-eighth and first at 

 one-third before end of the cell ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, exterior 

 margin convex ; costal vein extending to apex ; two subcostals from upper end of 

 the cell, joined at tlieir base ; cell extending to half the wing ; discocellular concave ; 

 upper median from an angle above end of the cell, two middle medians from angle 

 at the end, joined together at their base, first at one-third before the end ; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Body stout, pilose; palpi porrect, thick, laxly pilose 

 beneath, second joint extending slightly beyond the head, third minute ; antenna 

 bipectinated ; legs and tarsi pilose, middle and hind tibiae spurred. Female. Wings 

 longer. Body thicker ; antennae minutely bipectinated. 



Type, D. pudibunda. 

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