DASTCHIEA. 453 



Larva blackish ; the head striped with red ; the 1st somite 

 with a white band crossed by red stripes and with tufts of 

 long black hair ; a series of red lateral spots with a white line 

 below them ; dorsal tufts of bright yellow hair rising from a dark 

 patch on 4th to 7th somites ; a lateral tuft of black hair from oth 

 somite ; 8th to 11th somites with subdorsal red spots ; 11th somite 

 with a dorsal tuft of long black hair ; legs scarlet ; prolegs spotted 

 with scarlet. 



Another form is paler, with the whole head and a dorsal blotch 

 on 1st somite scarlet ; the dorsal tufts on 4th to 7th somites grey. 



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

 Exp., 6 34-42, 2 46-54 millim. 



1014. Dasychira inclusa, Wlk. Cat. vii, p. 1737 ; Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. 



pi. xv, tigs. 2, 2 a (larva). 

 Dasychira dalbergiae, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 399 ; Butt. III. Het. 

 Til, pi. 123, figs. 9, 10, 11, pi. 138, tig. 12 (larva) ; C. $ S. 

 no. 979 a. 



S . Differs from mendosa in the head, thorax, and abdomen 

 being darker brown. Fore wing rather broader and shorter and 

 more uniform dull brown ; the lines very indistinct, and with an 

 indistinct waved brown band beyond the postmedial line. Hind 

 wing brownish fuscous. 



One specimen has the fore wing slightly irrorated with white 

 and a large white subbasal round spot. 



2 . The fore wing with a pale brown subbasal mark ; some 

 pale brown along inner margin, on discocellulars, and beyond the 

 postmedial line. Hind wing paler. 



Larva of male dark brown, with lateral tufts of long hair ; head 

 red-brown ; two white dorsal lines on 4th somite and dorsal tufts 

 of silky reddish hair on 4th to 7th somites. 



Larva of female with the dorsal tufts dark brown ; a subdorsal 

 white stripe and crimson dorsal spots on 9th and 10th somites. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas ; Poona ; Java. Exp., <5 40, 2 

 52 millim. 



Sect. III. (Psalis). Fore wing of male produced and falcate at 

 apex ; abdomen with no dorsal crests. 



1015. Dasychira securis, Hiibn. Zutr. ii, p. 19, figs. 291. 292 ; Moore, 



Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 115, figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. $ 8. no. 1090. 

 Arestha antica, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 805. 

 Rigema falcata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 437. 

 Eigema tacta, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 438. 

 Anticyra approximata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 440. 



c? . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen ochreous 

 white. Fore wing ochreous, the inner half irrorated with dark 

 scales ; the central area from base to outer margin brownish 

 suffused with white. Hind wing ochreous white. 



