142 DASYSTEENUM. By W. Warren. 



endroma. D. endroma Swinh. (34 g). Forewing deep russet brown with an olive tinge; inner and outer lines 



narrowly double, brown filled in with bluish silvery, the inner oblique and straight, but sharply angled on 

 vein 1, the outer bluntly elbowed outwards at vein 5, then oblique inwards; the basal area and a broad band 

 beyond outer line thickly frosted with bluish silvery, filling up in the latter case the teeth of the submarginal 

 line; upper stigmata indistinct, with orange annuli and slight bluish dusting; the costal area, a median shade, 

 and the terminal veins also slightly bluish; fringe and extreme termen brown; hindwing bluish grey, freckled 



inornate, with olive, with darker cellspot and outer line; fringe orange rufous; ab. inornata ab. nov. (34g), has the ground 



cuprea. colour deeper red and the silvery bluish dusting on each side of the median area absent; ab. cuprea ab. nov. 



(34 g), has the median and basal areas olive brown, and the stigmata, the inner margin, and the outer area beyond 



outer line a dull olive yellow-brown, the dentate submarginal line showing darker; fringe of both wings of the 



same tint. Described from Sikkim, N. India, occurring in Yatong, Tibet. 



hampsoni. D. hampsoni Leech (34 h). Forewing black brown, deepest in the median area, sparsely irrorated 



with blue scales; lines orange brown, the inner straight and oblique to below vein 1, then acutely angled 

 and running inwards nearly to base; the outer excurved, and running inwards along inner margin to inner 

 line; stigmata grey brown, dusted with blue, edged with dull orange, the reniform produced along median 

 vein to touch the orbicular; submarginal line yellow brown, preceded and followed by black teeth; hindwing 

 brownish fuscous, the fringe yellowish. W. China; apparently common. 



dentata. D. dentata Hmps. (34 h). Forewing rufous brown, the basal and postmedian areas suffused with 



bluish grey in the £; darker, more purple brown in the $, the suffusion purplish grey; inner and outer lines 

 double, filled in with bluish grey; the outer dentate at middle; stigmata blue grey, the orbicular large, oblique; 

 the reniform very narrow; claviform small and dark; terminal area brown, limited by the submarginal line; 

 hindwing luteous grey, with darker cellspot, outer line, and submarginal shade. Also an Indian species, but 

 occurring at Yatong, Tibet. 



albiluna. D. albiluna Hmps. (34 h). Forewing dark purple brown, dusted with bluish white scales except in 



lower half of median area; lines blackish, double, filled in with grey; claviform stigma dark, black-edged; 

 orbicular round, dusted with bluish, and edged with black; reniform with an ochreous white lunule on its 

 outer edge; submarginal line yellow brown with dark shades on each side; hindwing as in the last species. 

 Yatong, Tibet; described from 2 $$ only. 



cuprescens. D. cuprescens Hmps. (34 h). Forewing cupreous brown, with a purplish grey tinge, especially in 



basal and postmedian areas; lines and stigmata indistinct, except the reniform which is white with a narrow 

 dark lunule; subterminal line represented by the contrast between the grey and cupreous areas; hindwing 

 ochreous white at base suffused with cupreous brown, darkest at termen. Described from a single $ from 

 Yatong, Tibet. 



sikkimeyisis. D. sikkimensis Moore (34 i). Forewing dark grey, suffused with fuscous and dusted with faint 



yellowish scales; inner and outer lines black, conversely edged with pale grey; claviform stigma of the ground 

 colour, outlined with black; orbicular small, whitish, defined by black; reniform white with black centre and 

 outline; subterminal line of whitish lunules, bordered with dark; hindwing dull greyish white in basal half, 

 dark grey in terminal, with outer line and submarginal shade. The $ has the whole forewing suffused with 

 dark, the stigmata and lines all obscured. Chumbi Valley, Tibet, also occurring in India. Quite a small 

 species. 



herchatra. D. herchatra Swinh. (34 i). Forewing deep black brown, irrorated with yellow; veins purplish grey, 



marked in places with whiter; a yellow, somewhat triangular, patch at base of submedian interval; lines 

 deep black, obscure, but- conversely edged with purplish grey; claviform dark, indistinct; orbicular and reni- 

 form with grey-dusted centres and yellow lateral edges; subterminal line yellow, externally edged with black, 

 interrupted by the pale veins; fringe olive brown, the basal half dark and spotted with yellow, the apical 

 half yellowish; hindwing luteous, tinged with grey; the cellspot, outer line, submarginal shade and veins 

 darker; fringe yellow and grey. Yatong, Tibet. Described originally from India. 



52. Genus: Dasysteriiuiii Stgr. 



Tongue present; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment long-haired, the third smooth; head and 

 thorax hairy, without crests; abdomen, pectus, and legs hairy; wings with the termen not crenulate. Type 

 Dasystemum tibetanum Stgr. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ bipectinate. 



lea. D. lea Stgr. Forewing whitish, thickly dusted with pale reddish; lines grey, conversely whitish-edged; 



submarginal indistinct preceded by a dark costal shade; median shade distinct; upper stigmata pale, ill-defined ; 

 hindwing yellowish-white, with diffuse dark outer line. Palestine only. 



