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of black dots and a white anal tuft. Forewing white cream-coloured, at the costal margin a transverse row 
of yellowish-grey dots and streaks from the middle of the posterior margin to the apex, 2 similar spots in the 
cell. Hindwing white cream-coloured at the abdominal margin, a small dark discoidal spot. Length of forewing: 
21, $ 26 mm. India. — rhodophilides Hmps. (20 d) has a double transverse band, darker spots on the forewing rhodophili- 
and a submarginal row of smoky black spots on the hindwing. Formosa. -— unilinea Rothsch. differs by the y C a' 
much more distinct, broader, darker tranvserse band of the forewing, and the 4 spots at the anal angle of the 
hindwing. West China. — japonensis subsp. nov. (21 e) is distinguished from unilinea by its smaller, rounder japonensis. 
shape and the interrupted second transverse band of the forewing. Japan. 
D. ypsilon Rothsch. $ head milky-white; antennae black; thorax milky-white, tegulae margined ypsilon. 
with red. Abdomen dirty light pink with rows of tiny black dots. Forewing milky-white, a subbasal, thin 
transverse band and a broad, median transverse band forked towards the costa and composed of spots, brown. 
Hindwings milky-white. Length of forewing: 15 mm. West Java. 
D. burmanica Rothsch. Head and thorax yellowish-white, tegulae red; antennae black; abdomen burmanica. 
light red with a row of black dots. Forewing creamy-white, with two transverse bands of liver-coloured brown 
spots. Hindwing white with a liver-coloured brown spot at the anal angle. Length of forewing: 18 mm. Burma. 
D. multivittata Moore (20 e as multivitta). Palpi and antennae black; head and thorax white; abdomen multivittata. 
yellow with three rows of black dots. Forewing light creamy-white, with three angled, brown trans\erse bands 
composed of fused spots (the distal band being forked), and with a brown discoidal spot. Hindwing creamy- 
yellow, the discoidal spot and an interrupted transverse band brown. Length of forewing: $ 16, 5 22 mm. 
Sikkim. — assama Rothsch. (20 e) differs by the much more intense and broader brown markings and the presence assarna. 
of only 2 transverse bands on the forewings. Khasia Hills. 
D. indica Guer. (= subjeeta Wkr.) (20 e). Antennae black; head white with black sides; thorax yellowish- indica. 
white with yellow shoulder-covers; abdomen orange-yellow, the base haired white, on the dorsum and sides 
rows of black dots. Forewing yellowish-white, basal half of the costa black, the apical half yellow, a curved 
antemedian row of spots, a similar postmedian row and a submarginal row are dark greyish-brown. Hindwing 
yellowish-white with a dark discoidal spot and 5 submarginal spots. -— ab. spilosomata Wkr. (20 e) without spilosomatu 
dark spots on the forewings. Length of forewing: $ 13, $ 19 mm. South India. 
D. lifuense Rothsch. (20 f) is all white; antennae brown; abdomen red with a middle row of black lifuense. 
dots. Length of forewing: $ 18, $ 24 mm. Loyalty Islands. 
D. melanosoma Hmps. (20 f $; Vol. II, p. 88, t. 15 g). $ head and thorax white; antennae smoky- melanoso- 
grey; abdomen black with white rings, with long hair and a large yellow anal tuft. Wings white. Length 
of forewing: 22 to 24 mm. Sikkim. 
D. robusta Leech from West China is confined to the palearctic region and therefore dealt with in Vol. II, 
p. 86, and figured on t. 15 c. In the Indian region, however, there occurs a southern form: hainana Rothsch. liainana. 
(20 f) being smaller than robusta and not so purely white. Island of Hainan. 
D. erythrozona Koll. (= cognata Wkr.) (Vol. II, t. 15 g) is all white; antennae above white, beneath erytlirozona. 
brown; abdomen black with rosy-red rings. North West India. Comp. Vol. II, p. 88. 
D. erythrastis Meyr. (= frenchii Luc.) (20 g). palpi and forehead blackish-brown, hindhead creamy- erythrastis. 
white; tegulae creamy-white, narrowly margined with red, and with a black discal dot; thorax creamy-white,, with 
a broad blackish-brown median band, shoulder-covers with a similar median spot; abdomen scarlet with median 
and lateral rows of black dots. Forewings creamy-white, suffused with a brownish pink; a basal dot, two subbasal 
spots, two undulate transverse bands composed of confluent spots, a submarginal row' of paired vein-streaks, 
some more paired streaks on the proximal margin and between the veins 5, 6, 7, 8, as well as a distal-marginal 
row of spots blackish-brown. Hindwing scarlet; a median, curved, narrow' transverse band and 3 submarginal 
spots smoky-black, fringes whitish-yellow. $ much larger, the bands and spots of the forewing much stronger 
and broader; hindwing of a bright crimson with very broad, black, median and submarginal transverse bands 
and a black distal margin from the apex to vein 2. — ab. diluta ab. nov. (20f). <J: on the forewing all the dark dilufa. 
markings are absent except the two transverse bands which, however, are quite incomplete and reduced to 
transverse rows of small dots. The hindwing is quite unmarked except a small discoidal spot and two small 
anal-angular spots. Length of forewing: <$ 22, $ 29 mm. Queensland. 
