360 CATALOGUE OF 



Dasychira VENCSTA. 



Mas et fcem. Alba; caput antice ochraceum; palpi ochracel, 

 pills nonnullis nigris ; antennce maris late pectinatce, ramis 

 cervinis ; thorax pills nonnullis longls nigris, antice fta- 

 vescens ; abdomen ochraceum ; pedes oehracei, nigro varll, 

 tarsls nlgro fasciatls ; alee argenteo-albce, llnea exteriore 

 obliqua e punctls nigris nonnunquam connexis, 



Male and female. White. Head more or less ochraceous in 

 front. Palpi ochraceous, partly clothed with black hairs. Antennae 

 of the male broadly pectinated ; branches fawn-colour. Thorax 

 tinged with yellow in front, furnished with a few long black hairs. 

 Abdomeu ochraceous. Legs ochraceous; femora and tibia? mostly 

 black above; tarsi with black bands. Wings silvery white, with an 

 exterior oblique line of black points ; these are sometimes connected, 

 and the line is always entire towards the interior border of the fore 

 wings. Length of the body 9 — 12 lines; of the wings 26—34 

 lines. 



It much resembles D.atomaria, but the wings are not speckled 

 with black. 



a—c. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 



Dasychira nigritula. 



Mas. Obscure fusca ; palpi crassi, oblique ascendentes, subtus 

 dense pllosl ; abdominis fasciculus apicalis nigricans; alee 

 antlcce fasclls qulnque nlgricantlbus clnereo marglnatls, 

 Sa angusta undulata e lunulls connexis, 4a baque guttularl- 

 bus; posticce fuscce. 



Male. Dark brown, paler beneath. Palpi obliquely ascending, 

 very stout, densely clothed beneath with short hairs ; third joint 

 extremely short. Antennae very broadly pectinated. Abdomen 

 brown ; apical tuft blackish. Wings beneath with a blackish 

 oblique exterior band. Fore wings with five blackish cinereous- 

 bordered bands; third band narrow, undulating, festooned; fourth 

 and fifth composed of more or less lunulate dots; fifth marginal. 

 Hind wings brown. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 

 lines. 



a. North Hindostan. From Capt. Reid's collection. 



