424 AECTIAD^. 



less obscure antemedial, medial, postmedial, and subterminal diffused 

 black lines, the postmedial excurved beyond the black discoidal spot 

 and the subterminal angled outwards at vein 6. Hind wing white, 

 the inner area and costa slightly tioged with pink ; a black discoidal 

 spot ; cilia yellowish. 



5 . Hind wing pale crimson. 



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Genus DIONYCHOPUS. 



Type. 



Dionychopus, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 14 (1850) amasis. 



Proboscis rather small ; palpi short, porrect ; antennas of male minutely 

 serrate and ciliated ; fore tibiae with a curved claw on inner side ; hind tibiae 

 with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing rather narrow ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of ceil. 



1991. Dionychopus amasis. 



Bomhyx amasis, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 206, B (1780) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 223. 

 Noctua serici, Thunb. Vet.-Akad. N. Handl. ii. p. 242, pi. 5. ff. 1, 2 (1781). 

 Chelonia erythronota, Boisd. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 598 (1847) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 223. 

 Aloa delineata, Wlk. iii. 700 (1855). 



Bomhyx thunbergii, Guer. Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2) xiv. p. 351 (1862). 

 Munychia callipyga, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 162 (1860) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 223. 

 Dionychopus similis, Moschi. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 288 



(1884). 



Head and thorax white ; palpi crimson at sides, the third joint 

 black ; antennae black except towards base ; patagia with black 

 points and edged with brownish yellow ; fore coxae on outer side 



Fig. 172. — Dionychopus amasis, (^ . {. 



and femora above crimson ; tibiae and tarsi black, yellow, and white ; 

 abdomen crimson with dorsal and lateral series of black points, the 

 ventral surface white. Eore wing silvery white ; the costal edge 

 fulvous yellow ; indistinct antemedial, medial, and postmedial series 

 of yellow points, with more or less complete series of black points 

 on them, sometimes forming almost complete lines, the 1st running 



