LEPIDOPTEBA BETEROCERA. 869 



lunules. Hind wings hoary, with a pale brown ciiscal spot, and two 

 pale bands, and a darker marginal band. Length of the body 

 9 lines; of the wings 25 lines. 



a. East Indies. In Mr. Saunders' collection. v 



Fcem. ? Albida ; caput, thorax et alee anticce supra albido canq ; 

 alee anticce obsolete fasciatce, posticce macula discali pallide 

 fusca. 



Female. Whitish. Head, thorax and fore wings above whitish 

 hoary. Fore wings with some indistinct and almost obsolete traces 

 of bands like those of the male; a slight whitish undulating band 

 near the exterior border. Hind wings with a very pale brown discal 

 spot, which is more distinct beneath than above. Length of the 

 body 9 lines; of the wings 28 lines. 



a. East Indies. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Country unknown. 



13. Dasychira Tephra. 



Mas. Viridi-fusca ; abdomen pallide fuscum; alee anticee ocella 

 discali fasciisque quatuor undulosis nigris ; posticce pallide 

 fuscee fasciis tribus fuscis. Fcem. — Pallidior ; alee anticce 

 macula magna discali lituraque postica albis ; posticce fusco 

 bifasciatce. 



Dasychira vulgaris Tephra, Hiibn. Samml. JExot. Schmett. i. Lep. 



iii. Bomb, ii. Verce, iv. Dasychiree (7. vulgares,-&. f. 1 — 4. 

 Orgyia Tephra, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phaleenee Verce Dasychiree 



Canescentes), 161, 1678. 



Male. Greenish brown. Abdomen and hind wings pale brown. 

 Fore wings with a black discal ocellus, and with four slender undu- 

 lating black bands; two bands between the o"cellus and the base of 

 the wing, and two beyond the ocellus. Hind wings with two brown 

 hands, the first discal, the second submarginal, very broad, accom- 

 panied on its inner side by a very slender brown band. Fern. — 

 Paler. Fore wings with a large white black-streaked spot instead 

 of the ocellus, and with a small white mark at two-thirds of the 

 length of the interior border. Hind wings with two brown bands, 

 of which the inner one is much broader than the outer one. 



