GAZALINA.—HIMALA, 49 
GAZALINA, Walk. 
Gazalina antica, (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 4.) 
Dasychira antica, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 867. n. 10 (1855). 
Wings above silvery white; primaries with the basal half of costal margin, two dots at 
the base, the veins, and two nearly parallel oblique lines across the basal half black: head 
white, with the face black; antenne black, with testaceous pectinations; thorax white, the 
collar and metathorax ochraceous here and there; abdomen white, with transverse blackish 
bands. Under surface white, the costal margin of primaries black, costal area slightly yellowish ; 
veins upon the disk blackish ; secondaries with a transverse squamose blackish streak across 
the costal area; the upper surface of the anterior legs and the tarsi of the remaining legs 
blackish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines, 
Almora (Boys) ; Darjiling (Lidderdale), 
Oligoclona chordigera of Felder seems to be a slight variety of G. antica. 
Gazalina venosata. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 5.) 
Gazalina venosata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 398 (1865), 
Oligoclona nervosa, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. pl. xev. fig. 8 (1874), 
2. Wings above silvery white, with the veins black ; primaries with the costal margin 
black, base sprinkled with blackish scales: thorax sordid white ; abdomen black, with white 
margins to the segments, a large metallic golden anal tuft ; tarsi blackish: wings and body as 
above. Expanse of wings | inch 10 lines. 
Barrackpore (Hearsay) ; Darjiling (Lidderdale). 
Felder’s figure represents a female which has laid its eggs, and is consequently denuded 
of the beautiful golden anal tuft: a similar example from Dr. Lidderdale’s collection is in 
the Museum, 
HIMALA, Moore. 
Himala argentea. (Plate LX XXIX. fig. 6.) 
3. Redoa argentea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 827. n. 3 (1855). 
Q@. Dasychira ilita, Moore, Cat. Lep. HI. Comp. ii. p. 341. n. 810 (1858-59). 
Wings above silvery white, with blackish outer margins; primaries with all the veins, 
excepting the costal and subcostal, black ; the last two subcostal branches also black ; secon- 
daries with the veins beyond the middle black : body snow-white* ; antenne with testaceous 
* Walker describes it as “ testaceous, clothed with white hairs,” the body of the type being stained 
with grease. 
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