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body as dark as the primaries. Under surface altogether paler, greyish white, shading into 
pale grey, with two dusky discal macular stripes : primaries with a dusky patch at the end of 
the cell and a marginal series of triangular black spots: secondaries with a blackish spot at 
the end of the cell and a slender black marginal line. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. 
Darjiling. 
Dasychira niveosparsa. (Plate XCI. fig. 7.) 
9. Near to D. strigata: primaries above grey, irrorated with white; base white 
speckled with brown and limited externally by an irregular angulated dark brown line; two 
bands, one before and the other beyond the middle, margined on both sides and intersected 
by dark brown sinuated lines ; the inner band irregular and transverse, the outer one oblique 
and incurved towards the costa; a bifid blackish line at the end of the cell; an ill-defined 
interrupted white-bordered zigzag line across the disk ; an irregular submarginal series of 
white-edged black liturze: secondaries ochraceous, with greyish costal area; external border 
broadly whitish and limited internally by a diffused blackish discal stripe; a brownish mar- 
ginal line: thorax grey; abdomen greyish white, tinted here and there with ochraceous. 
Under surface greyish; the wings with two ill-defined macular dusky discal stripes and dusky 
discocellulars : secondaries with the abdominal area tinted with ochraceous: body below 
whitish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 
Darjiling (Lidderdale). 
SATURNIID A. 
ANTHERZA, Hiibn. 
Antherea frithii. (Plate XCI. fig. 8.) 
Anthereea frithil, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. Comp. ii. p. 396 (1858); Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 256. 
mh, By fol, Ibxye site, Ie 
Chrome-yellow ; the wings washed with ferruginous; the external borders greyish 
ferruginous: primaries with the costal two thirds grey; an evenly-sinuated submarginal laky- 
brown stripe limiting the external border ; two dull grey sinuated parallel discal stripes, the 
inner one darkest, broadest, and interrupted by the ocelli; the ocelli are of equal size, greyish 
brown, with hyaline white pupil, limited internally by a rose-red lunate marking enclosing a 
white line, and externally edged on both sides with yellow, the whole enclosed in a black 
annulus: primaries with a whitish-bordered greyish-brown stripe from the base of the 
abbreviated cell to the immer margin; base of the cell occupied by a yellow spot bordered 
with brown ; subapical costal area bright chrome-yellow : secondaries with a sinuated greyish 
stripe across the basal third : body pale, with testaceous head and antennz and grey collar. 
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