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the hairs of the second joint, with which it is covered very thickly in 
front ; eyes large, rounded, of width of frons ; antennae bipectinate, about 
J of costa in length and cuived ; in £ the branches are about 5 times 
thickness of shaft, getting shorter towards base and apex, ending each in 
a bristle ; in $ the antennae are J of costa and the branches are about as 
long as thickness of shaft, ending in 2 bristles ; vertex, frons, and thorax 
clothed with rather long hair in <$, in $ the hair is more smooth ; abdomen 
in a little longer than hind wing and covered with woolly hair, in $ the 
abdomen is much longer than hind wing a id the hairs are shorter ; some 
species of this genus have dorsal tufts. Fore tibia with a somewhat 
pointed, slightly curved process in <$, about j length of tibia, in $ no 
process ; tarsae with long spreading hair on outer side ; mid tibia with 
2 spurs ; hind tibia with 4 spurs, and all tibiae with long hair ; tarsae 
of mid and hind legs with the hairs not spreading. 
Fore wing of sub -triangular, in $ much more elongate ; costa 
slightly hollowed out at | ; termen and inner margin rounded ; apex and 
tornus rounded ; 16 simple at base ; 2 from § lower median ; 3 from f 
distance 2 to 4 ;• 4 from lower angle ; 5 from above the angle ; disco- 
cellular oblique, faint ; cell about 4 of wing ; 6 from upper angle ; 7 and 8 
stalked for ^ of 7 and from the angle ; 10 and 9 on a stalk of J of 10 and 
from upper median ; 9 anastomosing with stalk of 7 and 8 at \ and 
further with vein 8 for \ the free length of this vein, in order to form the 
areole ; 10 approximated to stalk of 8 and 9 at J ; 11 from f upper median, 
first bent to approximate 12 and then bent to approach 10 just beyond 
origin ; 12 parallel to costa for f , then suddenly bent to costa. 
Hind wing semicircular ; costa arched at J ; termen, inner margin, 
apex, and tornus well rounded ; la rather long ; 16 straight towards 
tornus ; 2 from § lower median ; 3 and 4 from lower angle ; 5 from well 
above the angle ; discocellular curved inwards and. faint ; cell a little 
over \ of wing ; 6 and 7 on a very short stalk and from the upper angle ; 
8 just touching the upper meaian at before J, then towards apex, where 
it is well curved. 
Eange : Europe, Africa, Madagascar, J apan, China, British India, 
Ceylon, Burmah, Java, Australia. 
It seems to be very difficult to separate this genus from the closely 
allied genus Lcelia, and a number of mistakes have been made and 
insufficient characters given by various authors. 
Prof. A. Spuler, in his “ Schmetterlingen Eur. Bnd.,” I, p. 128, states 
that Dasychira has only end spurs on the hind tibiae, but the type species, 
D. fudibunda , of which I examined two $<$ and two $$, and all South 
African species brought by other authors in this genus, have distinctly 
4 spurs in both sexes. 
Sir Hampson, in “ South African Moths 55 (Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 390, 
1905), gives as a distinction that Dasychira has a more oblique termen, 
which in Lcelia should be more erect, but there are many graduations 
between the two. In his “ Fauna of British India,” Vol. I, p. 440, he 
mentions the long third joint of the palpi in Lcelia , this being short in 
Dasychira , but in his key, l.c. p. 433, the lateral tufts on the fore tarsae 
are taken as distinctive for Dasychira . 
