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somites with, thick dorsal shorter tufts ; a black dorsal patch 

 between 4th and 5th somites. 



Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon and Burma ; Java. Exp., 

 <$ 46, $ 70-86 millim. 



1000. Dasychira thwaitesi, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 98, pi. 116, figs. 1, 



1 a, b (larva) ; C. # S. no. 991. 

 Dasychira pudica, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 538. 



S . Differs from horsfieldi in the head and thorax being whiter. 

 Fore wing pure white ; the two postmedial lines nearer the margin ; 

 the submarginal line absent ; abdomen and hind wing pale brown 

 without any orange. 



2 ■ White, very slightly irrorated with black ; medial and post- 

 medial dark streaks from the costa of fore wing ; the lines very 

 faint ; hind wing pure white. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp., S 40, $ 50 millim. 



1001. Dasychira albescens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 59, pi. iii, fig. 2 ; 



C.$S. no. 975. 



S . Palpi black at sides ; branches of antenna? red-brown ; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen white, slightly irrorated with grey. Fore 

 wing silky white, slightly irrorated with grey ; a tuft of raised scales 

 at end of cell ; almost obsolete ante- and postmedial waved lines. 

 Hind wing white, with an almost obsolete dark spot at end of cell 

 and curved submarginal band forming a patch near anal angle. 



$ with the palpi white ; the fore wing thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous, and with better defined antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal lines. 



Bab. Sikhim. Exp., <3 58, $ 68 millim. 



1002. Dasychira cinctata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 59; C. # S. no. 978. 



S . Differs from albescens in the thorax being tinged with brown, 

 the abdomen ringed with black. Fore wing with antemedial and 

 postmedial black patches on the costa ; the antemedial, postmedial, 

 and submarginal waved lines more prominent. Hind wing with a 

 dark mark at end of cell, a submarginal band, and marginal line. 



5 • The thorax not tinged with brown ; fore wing more irro- 

 rated with fuscous. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp., S 62, $ 82 millim. 



1003. Dasychira strigata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 58 ; C.fy S. no. 989. 

 Dasychira niveosparsa, Butl. III. Het. v, p. 59, pi. 91, fig. 7 ; C. <$* & 



no. 987. 



Head and thorax iron-grey ; abdomen slightly tinged with 

 yellow. Fore wing dark iron-grey, slightly tinged with brown ; an 

 indistinct angulated subbasal line ; a double antemedial waved line ; 

 the reniform with dark outline ; a double waved postmedial line 



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