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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.) 



? . 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 sinuatcd Hnes ; 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 liturae : 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) . 



SATURNIIDiE. 



ANTHEREA, Hubn. 

 Antheraea frithii. (Plate XCI. fig. 8.) 



Antheraea frithii, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. Cornp. ii. p. 396 (1858); Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 256. 

 n. 3, pi. lxv. fig. 1. 



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 inner 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 antennae and grey collar. 



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