lepidoptera heterocera. 373 



Female. Yellow. Body very thick. Antennas slightly pec- 

 tinated. Thorax with a broad diffuse fawn-coloured band. Wings 

 mostly fawn-coloured towards the base ; this hue is bounded by a 

 zigzag partly double purplish brown line ; an exterior oblique 

 purple-brown band, which is dentate along its outer side and con- 

 tains a yellow line, and is reduced to a line in the fore wings, except 

 towards the interior border. Fore wings falcate, with a brown dot 

 in the disk. Hind wings with a brown patch in the interior angle 

 beneath. Length of the body 16 lines; of the wings 44 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Darnel's collection. 



Genus DREATA, C. L. H. iv. 902. 

 Strephnopteryx, Wlngr. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handb. xv. 209. 



Dee ATA CREPAX. 



crepax, Wlngr. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. 166. 



Caffraria. 



Dreata undata. 



Bombyx undatus, Blanchard, Jacquemont, Voy. Inde. Zool. Ins. 23, 

 pi. 1, f. 8 — undifera, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. 904. 



Dreata Udiana. 

 Udiana, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mas. E. J. C. ii. 364. 

 a, b. Java. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



Dreata Petola. 



Petola, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mm. E. I. C. ii. 364 — testacea, feem., 

 Cat. Lep. Ret. iv. 906. 



Dreata Anada. 

 Anada, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. 365. 

 Canara. 



Dreata flavinata. 



Mas. Flava; caput antice purpureo-rufum,flavo bimaculatum; 

 antennce purpuras centes ; pedes supra purpureo-rufi ; alee 

 linea obliqua punctisque submarginalibus ferrugineus ; anticce 

 falcata, casta basali maculaque discali purpureo-rufis, linea 

 basali transversa interrupta ferruginea, 



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