58 lipabios:. 



dots : secondaries with two or three blaek 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.) 



c? . Dasychira complicata, Walker, Oat. Lep. Het. Swppl. ii. p. 362 (1865). 

 Trisula pustulifera, Walker, l.c. p. 576 (1865). 



J 1 . 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 

 crescent- 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, antennae 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 coxae blackish ; tibiae and 

 tarsi ochreous, banded with black and fringed with white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 



2 . 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). 



$ . Grey : primaries densely irrorated with blackish scales, with three transverse 

 irregular blackish lines, the first subbasal, the second 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 : 



