452 LYMANTEIIDJE. 



wholly purplish grey ; the fore wing irrorated with dark specks 

 with waved ante- and postmedial brown lines which meet at inner 

 margin ; a brown spot at end of cell and an irregular submarginal 

 brown band ; the hind wing pale grey. 



Hab. Sikhiin; Nilgiri plateau. Exp., <3 43-52, § 47-52 millim. 



1012. Dasychira mcerens. Feld. Lteis. Nov. pi. 99, fig. 4(5); Smpsn. 



III. Het. ix, pi. 160, fig-. 1(J), pi. 176, fig. 1 (larva) ; C. $ S. 

 no. 985. 



3 . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing dark olive-brown ; 

 the last with double subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial waved 

 and angulated lines ; submarginal and marginal series of indistinct 

 lunulate marks ; the reniform with indistinct dark outline. Hind 

 wing black-brown, the cilia red-brown. Underside red-brown 

 variegated with dark brown. 



$ much paler, the lines of the fore wing outlined with purplish 

 grey. 



Larva dark brown with a reddish lateral line ; two long dark 

 brown dorsal tufts on 4th and 11th somites, and two shorter pale 

 brown tufts on 5th, 6th, and 7th somites. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp., <5 42, $ 60 millim. 



Sect. II. (Olene). Fore wing of female produced at apex, the outer 

 margin excised ; abdomen with dorsal crests. 



1013. Dasychira mendosa, Hilbn. Zutr. ii, p. 19, figs. 293, 294 ; Moore, 



Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 115, figs. 4, 4 a, b (larva) ; C. $ 8. no. 1037. 

 Olene basivitta, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 436 ; C. 8f S. no. 1035. 

 Nioda fusiformis, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1070 ; C. $ 8. no. 1036. 

 Eilia lanceolata, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1075. 

 Antipha basalis, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 806 ; C. 8f 8. no. 1040. 

 Dasychira sawanta, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 340. 

 Dasychira divisa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 363. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the abdominal tuft 

 dark. Fore wing with a subbasal incurved dark line ; Avaved ante- 

 and postmedial lines, the latter recurved beyond end of cell and 

 incurved below the end ; a waved submarginal line. Hind wing 

 pale, the outer area slightly suffused with brown. 



In the form mendosa = fusiformis the fore wing is nearly uniform 

 brown with a pale round patch outside the subbasal line : in divisa 

 the whole costal half of the fore wing is suffused with white except 

 a patch on the costa before the apex : in basalis the subbasal patch 

 is dark brown and elongate ; there is a pale line before the ante- 

 medial line and on each side of the discocellulars, and some grey 

 near apex and outer angle. 



$ . The subbasal line of fore wing almost obsolete ; the waved 

 dark lines prominent ; the reniform pale brown with dark outline ; 

 a diffused dark fascia from the base to outer margin, leaving the 

 costa and inner margin pale, in some specimens interrupted by the 

 area between the ante- and postmedial lines being pale. 



