CIPUNA. DASYCHIRA. 447 



996. Cifuna cervina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 45, pi. 3, fig. 1 ; C. fy S. 

 no. 1062. 



S • Differs from locuples in being dull dark brown ; fore wing 

 with a purplish tinge ; a black lunule at end of cell ; the line 

 inwardly edging the postrnedial band nearly straight ; no marginal 

 marks or purplish edging to the markings. Palpi and legs blackish. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 54 millim. 



Genus DASYCHIRA. 



Dasychira, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii, p. 58 (1829). 



Olene, Hiibn. Zutr. 2, p. 19, non descr. (1823). 



Nioda, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1069 (1855). 



Rilia, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1075 (1855). 



Psalis, Hiibn. Zutr. 2, p. 19, non descr. (1827). 



Arestha, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 805 (1855). 



Anchyneura, Feld. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xliii, p. 331 (1861). 



Cadrusia, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 54 (1879). 



Type, D. pudibunda, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Africa ; Madagascar ; Japan ; China ; through- 

 out India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; Australia. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint heavily fringed with hair ; antennae 

 with the branches long in male, short in female ; legs hairy. Fore 

 wing with the outer margin oblique ; neuration as in preceding 

 genera. Hind wing with veins '6, 4, 5 from close to angle of cell ; 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



Sect. I. (Dasychira). Pore wing of female not produced at apex, 

 the outer margin evenly curved. 



A. Abdomen clothed with long hair and without dorsal crests. 



997. Dasychira complicata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 362 ; Butt. III. Het. 

 v, pi. 91, fiss. 4, 5 ; C.fyS. no. 998. 

 Insula pustulifera, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 576. 



S . Head and collar whitish ; palpi black at sides ; the branches 

 of antennas red-brown ; thorax brown, with black spots behind the 

 collar ; abdomen orange, the vertex black, the anal tuft and lateral 

 fringe white. Pore wing red-brown ; a subbasal waved black line 

 with a maculate band between it and the double antemedial lines ; 

 reniform spot edged with black ; a waved and curved postrnedial 

 line with a maculate band beyond it ; a waved submarginal line ; 

 all these markings slightly outlined with white ; cilia chequered 

 pale and black. Hind wing yellowish white ; the basal inner area 

 tinged with orange ; a dark spot at end of cell and postrnedial 

 band ; cilia spotted with black. 



2 paler. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp., S 58, $ 86 millim. 



