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dots : secondaries with two or three black marginal dots towards the apex. Wings below 
with the costal borders and veins cream-coloured ; a blackish spot on the discocellulars : body 
below sordid ; tarsi blackish. Expanse of wings 3 inches 4 lines. 
Silhet. 
MARDARA, Walk. 
Mardara complicata. (Plate XCI. figs. 4 & 5.) 
3. Dasychira complicata, Walker, Oat. Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 362 (1865). 
Trisula pustulifera, Walker, l. ¢. p. 576 (1865). 
6. Primaries above sandy brown, darker towards the base; an irregular white-bordered 
black line across the basal area; the base itself greyish white; a white-edged undulated 
blackish line across the wing just before the middle; a large blackish costal patch at the end 
of the cell; a rather broad discal belt composed of blackish oval spots and in the middle by 
erescent-shaped brown spots, bordered with white and enclosed between two black lines; a 
submarginal series of black dashes and a series of black spots on the fringe: secondaries pale 
ochraceous, darker on the abdominal area; a dusky spot at the end of the cell, a second 
indistinct one on the discoidal interspaces near the outer margin, and a blackish oblique dash 
near the anal angle: head and collar sordid white, antennz dull ferruginous ; thorax greyish 
white, with a dusky spot on each tegula; abdomen ochreous, with blackish dorsal and lateral 
series of spots ; anal tuft blackish, with white borders. Under surface cream-coloured, large 
black spots closing each cell: primaries with black spots on the fringe; an incomplete series 
of black spots parallel to the outer margin: palpi black, anterior coxe blackish ; tibize and 
tarsi ochreous, banded with black and fringed with white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 
?. Considerably larger than the male, the dark markings less defined than in the male ; 
the secondaries with the blackish spots on the disk forming an interrupted series ; the fringe 
spotted with black ; body with lateral white tufts. Expanse of wings 3 inches 5 lines. 
Barrackpore (Hearsay) ; Darjiling (Lidderdale). 
DASYCHIRA, Steph. 
Dasychira maruta. (Plate XCI. fig. 6.) 
Dasychira maruta, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. Comp. ii. p. 339. n. 803 (1858-59). 
9. Grey: primaries densely irrorated with blackish scales, with three transverse 
irregular blackish lines, the first subbasal, the secoud at basal third, bifid in front, the third 
beyond the middle, recurved and undulated ; a fourth submarginal zigzag line; a series of 
black spots on the fringe, which is otherwise whitish ; a dusky streak at the end of the cell : 
secondaries paler, with a dusky streak at the end of the cell and two dusky discal stripes, the 
inner one of which is very indistinct ; a marginal series of almost confluent blackish spots : 
