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of lunes between the veins and of ground colour, suffused on inner side 
with fuscous-biack ; terminal line consists of some small fuscous-black 
lunuies only ; cilia fuscous-black with light buff scales at end of veins.' 
Hmd wmg very greasy, but probably auburn (II) in colour, without 
any markings ; cilia as in fore wing. 
Under side of fore wmg with the ground colour at discal area ochra- 
ceous-orange (XV) and of a Front’s brown colour (XV) at costal area from 
below lower median to inner margin, from discocellular to termen, and 
from before \ vein 2-4 till termen. Hind wmg ochraceous-orange. 
Exp. 36 mill. 
$. Head, thorax, and legs as in $ ; palpi with the third joint long 
and thin, as m Lcelia ; second and third joints pale ochraceous-buff (XV) 
with fuscous-black hairs ; abdomen in type badly rubbed, m co-types 
deep chrome above and pale yellow-orange (II) underneath ; last two 
segments with pale yellow-orange hairs above ; three large blackish scale 
tufts on abdomen. 
Fore wing with ground colour light buff [in some specimens well 
irrorated over whole wmg with light cinnamon-drab (XLVI), in one speci- 
men with light purple-drab (XLV)]; basal and sub-basal fines somewhat 
diffused, fuscous ; antimedial line diffused, fuscous, waved at upper and 
lower median, median fold and 16 ; medial line more defined from upper 
median to inner margin and waved in cell, median fold and at 16 ; orbi- 
cular ill-defined by fuscous scales ; above it till costa a dark suffusion ; 
postmedial fuscous, well defined, and dentated at all veins and median 
fold ; space between postmedial and sub-terminal lines filled with a more 
or less dense irroration, consisting of scales from hair-brown to brownish- 
drab (XLV) ; sub-terminal only indicated by fuscous lunuies between the 
veins ; terminal line consisting of well-defined but smaller lunuies between 
the veins ; cilia of ground colour, except between the veins, where they 
are fuscous-black. 
Hind wing deep chrome (III) with a thin sepia (XXIX) irroration at 
terminal area ; cilia pale orange-yellow (III), except between the veins, 
where they are sepia. 
Under side light orange-yellow ; fore wing irrorated at terminal half 
with saccardo’s umber (XXIX) scales ; hind wing irrorated with the same 
colour, but less thickly at costal half near apex. Exp. 47 mill. 
Hab. type. — Durban (11.8.09, bred by Green) ; in coll., Janse. 
Another very greasy. — Durban (19.7.10, bred by E. L. 
Clark) ; in coll., Green. 
$ type. — Durban (14.7.08, Leigh) ; in coll., Tvl. Mus. 
$ co-types, four specimens. — Durban (I, VII, VIII) ; in coll., 
Tvl. Mus., Janse, Green, Clark. 
According to a note from Mr. Clark, the larva of this species feeds 
on “ milkweed.” 
I named this species after Mr. H. A. Green, Durban, who bred several 
specimens and provided me with £ and ?. 
Species auctorum : — 
Dasychira herbida, Wlk., Cat. VII, p. 1740 (1856). 
Dasychira postpura , Hmpsn., Ann. S.A. Mus., p. 397 (1905). 
