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white, suffused with lettuce green (V) ; the pategia and posterior 
part of thorax also lettuce green, mixed with black scales ; in the 
Lydenburg specimen, also a <$ and in the Tvl. Mus. coll., the whole 
fore wing is hair brown (XL VI), though a little lighter at sub-basal 
and costal areas ; the lines are the same in the two specimens, 
except the antimedial, which is straight in the Durban specimen 
and somewhat curved near costa and dentate inwardly at lower 
median and 16 in the Lydenburg specimen. 
Dasychira pyrosoma, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (8), Vol. V, p. 450 (1910). 
Hab. Durban (II, III, Leigh) ; £ and 
Barberton (I, G. W. Jeffery). 
The $$ I have examined have the lines on the fore wing much 
more pronounced than the and the hairs on head, thorax, and 
fore legs are more tinged with yellow. The $ in my collection has 
the markings as follows : — Sub-basal line buff-yellow (IV) and 
extended till 16 ; antimedial line double, of which the inner one is 
maize-yellow (IV) and the outer line buff-yellow, more pronounced, 
evenly curved outwards, and ending at 16 ; medial line broad, 
diffused, beginning just below costa, evenly curved inwards at cell, 
between lower median and 16, maize-yellow ; reniform well defined 
by buff-yellow, filled with and on outer side with diffusion of maize- 
yellow ; postmedial double, oblique, nearly straight till 3 and 
slightly curved inwards at 2 and 16, somewhat dentated outwards 
at the other veins ; inner line well defined, buff-yellow ; outer line 
more diffused, broader, and maize-yellow ; sub-terminal somewhat 
diffused, broad, maize-yellow, and parallel to postmedial ; a faint 
terminal diffused line of pale maize-yellow ; cilia silvery white. 
Dasychira greeni, nov. spec. (pi. Ill, figs. 5, 6). 
cf. Fore wing very long, triangluar ; hind wing rather small, some- 
what circular ; hairs on vertex, thorax, palpi above, shaft of antennse, 
and legs hair-brown (XL VI), mixed with fuscous (XLVI) ; palpi and 
thorax underneath, fore legs on inner side, and frons with warm buff (XV) 
hairs, mixed with ochraceous-tawny (XV) hairs ; tibiae and tarsae of all 
legs ringed with fuscous ; branches of antennae fuscous-black (XLYI) ; 
abdomen somewhat greasy, but hairs probably ochraceous- orange (XV), 
three tufts of black scales and hairs on first three abdominal segments ; 
some black scales on end of metathorax ; anal tuft of long hairs. Fore 
wing with ground colour light buff (XV), but thickly covered with fuscous 
scales, except at before and beyond antimedian line, a medial triangular 
patch near costa, costal part of postmedial line and the sub-terminal line 
between the veins ; sub-basal line indistinct ; antimedial fuscous-black, 
much dentated at upper median, below lower median and 16 ; median 
line indistinct, double, waved, fuscous-black ; reniform almost square, of 
ground colour, and slightly irrorated with sayal brown (XXIX) scales ; 
at costa a patch of ground colour, divided into two by medial line ; post- 
medial indistinct, dentated at the veins and near costa, on outer side with 
a patch of ground colour ; sub-terminal consisting of an indistinct series 
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