70 LASIOCAMPID2. 
Dreata hades. (Plate XCVII. fig. 7.) 
Dreata hades, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 908. n. 13 (1855). 
Greyish brown: the wings with the central area whity brown, limited externally by 
a nearly straight (very slightly sinuated) dark discal stripe, and traversed by two very 
indistinct dentate-sinuate greyish lines ; a dentate-sinuate blackish line parallel to the outer 
margin : primaries dark at the base, the basal area crossed by three irregular dusky stripes : 
secondaries with the markings less distinct than in the primaries: abdomen paler than the 
thorax. Under surface fuliginous brown; wings crossed beyond the middle by a straight 
dusky line. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. 
Silhet. 
TAGORA, Walk. 
Tagora patula. (Plate XCVIII. figs. 1 & 2.) 
Tagora patula, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1189. n, 2 (1855). 
6. Sandy yellowish varied with flesh-colour. Wings crossed in the middle by four 
nearly equidistant parallel dentate-sinuate grey lines, the outermost one doubled ; an irregular 
discal series of black spots partly united upon the primaries by a slaty-grey sinuated line: 
primaries with a quadrate hyaline white spot at the end of the cell; an oblique brown line 
from below the cell to basal third of inner margin ; traces of five oblique brown stripes across 
the basicostal area; a grey nebula between the discal black spots upon the median branches : 
secondaries whitish towards the base; a curved reddish-brown subbasal stripe: head and 
antenne dark brown. Under surface pale reddish buff; wings crossed by a blackish discal 
line; other markings nearly as above, but the oblique interno-median line of the primaries 
and the curved subbasal line of the secondaries obsolete. Expanse of wings 3 inches 
11 lines. 
?. Pale brownish grey, clouded with brown and sandy yellowish ; the markings broader 
and more defined than in the male; the black discal dots smaller and less distinct, partly 
united by a sinuated white stripe which, on the secondaries, limits a broad brown discal belt 
traversed by a sinuated yellowish stripe; a similar but narrower belt runs from near the 
external angle to near the apex of primaries; the latter wings with two hyaline spots at the 
end of the cell; the grey discal nebula replaced by an oblique brown patch; fringes of all 
the wings sandy yellowish: body very pale. Under surface whity brown, the centre of the 
wings crossed by four dentate-sinuate dusky lines; external third smoky brown, limited in- 
ternally by a blackish-bordered yellowish stripe, and traversed by a dentate-sinuate blackish 
line with diffused whitish internal border, Expanse of wings 5 inches 1 line. 
Silhet. 
