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Forewing pale orange-yellow; a bent, antemedian transverse row of spots from the proximal margin to the 
subcostal, an oblique band from the apex to the middle of the proximal margin, composed of spots of different 
size, as well as 3 pair of streaks at the veins 4, 5, 6, beside a spot on each side of vein 1 brown. Hindwing 
pale orange-yellow, a cell-spot, a double spot at vein 5 and an oblique band of spots from the anal angle to 
vein 3 brownish. Length of forewing: 17 mm. Japan. 
D. leopardina Roll. (— divisa Wlcr., liturata Wkr.) (21 d). Antennae and sides of forehead black; leopardina. 
head and thorax yellowish-white, tegulae, shoulder-covers and mesothorax with black dots and streaks; abdomen 
orange-yellow, with a carmine hue and with dorsal and lateral rows of black dots. Forewing yellowish-white, 
various antemedian streaks and band-shaped streaks, a curved postmedian transverse band of spots at vein 3, 
connected with a row of spots proceeding from the apex, and a submarginal and marginal band of spots black. 
Hindwing yellowish-white, the spaces between the veins more or less filled up with black. — In ab. suffusa suffusa. 
ab. nov. the forewing beneath and the proximal part of the hindwing beneath is suffused with carmine, which 
shows through above. Length of forewing: 20 mm, $ 26 mm. North West Himalaya. — For further parti¬ 
culars see Vol. II, p. 87. 
D. dentilinea Moore (26c). Antennae whitish; head and thorax whitish maize-coloured, the lower dentilinea. 
half of the forehead and a median line on the thorax black; abdomen orange, with dorsal and lateral rows of 
small, black spots. Forewing whitish maize-coloured, a basal dot, 3 antemedian dots, 4 dots on and round 
the discocellulars, a postmedian row of dots on both sides of veins 4 to 7, and a dentate submarginal line from 
the costa to vein 2 blackish. Hindwing light maize-coloured with a pinkish hue, the discoidal dot and the sub¬ 
marginal row of spots between the veins 2 and 6 black. Length of forewing: 19 mm. Sikkim. 
D. obliqua Wkr. (= nydia Btlr., mollicula Btlr., howqua Moore, howra Moore, bifascia Hmsps., bisecta obliqua. 
Leech ) (21 g). <$: antennae black; head and thorax light maize-coloured, sometimes a black median streak 
on the thorax; abdomen, except the base and anal segment, carmine with dorsal and lateral rows of black dots. 
Forewing light maize-coloured, an oblique, postmedian transverse row formed of streaks on both sides 
of the veins and a similar, more or less interrupted submarginal row black. Hinclwing lighter, the discoidal 
spot and 8 submarginal spots black. In the $ all the spots have wellnigh entirely disappeared except the discoi¬ 
dal spot on the hindwing. -—- ab. dahlbergiae Moore (Vol. II, t. 15 b) has a yellow abdomen. Length of forewing: dahlbergiae. 
J 19 to 27, $ 23 to 31 mm. — Larva black, very long-haired. - — confusa Btlr. (21 f) has the forewing hued eonfusa. 
carmine, the hindwing quite carmine. South India. — In todara Moore (21 f) the rows of spots are more com- todara. 
plete and much intenser; from the Nilgiris. — mandarina Moore from South China has the forewing at the mandarina. 
basal and proximal parts hued rosy-red; forewing beneath carmine. -— occidentals subsp. nov. (21 e) is intensely occidentalis. 
suffused with a yellowish brown. West China, Tibet. — In ione Btlr. (21 e) the $ hindwing is rosy-red; from tone. 
Japan. 
D. hampsoni spec. nov. (21 d) resembles obliqua, but the is reddish-brown with carmine hindwings, hampsoni. 
and all the markings very prominent. $ light ochreous, markings blurred; abdomen bright yellow. Nilgiri Hills. 
D. casigneta Roll. (= sanguinalis Moore, sagittifera Moore) (21 f). Antennae and a part of the forehead casigneta. 
black; head and thorax brownish maize-coloured, sometimes a black stripe on the thorax; abdomen except 
the base and the anal segment carmine with dorsal and lateral rows of black dots. Forewing brownish maize- 
coloured, a dot on the median and an antemedian dot on vein 1 within traces of a brown transverse line, double 
postmedian dots on the veins within traces of a brown transverse line, and paired submarginal spots on the 
veins black. Hindwing lighter, the proximal part often coloured rosy-red, the discoidal spot and a more or 
less interrupted postmedian band black. — ab. melanocephala ab. nov. has a black head and thorax. — ab. melano- 
xanthogaster ab. nov. (21 f) has a yellow abdomen. West China, North West India, Tibet. For further parti- cephala. 
culars see Vol. II, p. 85, t. 15 b). xan g as t er . 
D. gopara Moore (21 g, h). antennae black with white tips; head and thorax brownish maize- gopara. 
coloured, forehead black; abdomen orange-yellow with dorsal and lateral rows of black dots. Forewing brownish 
maize-coloured, 3 or 4 antemedian dots, a postmedian, incomplete row of dots and a submarginal row of double 
dots on the veins black. Hindwing orange-yellow, the spaces between the veins nearly from the base almost to 
the distal margin black. The $ has the black of the hindwing reduced to streaks and spots. Length of forewing: 
cj 16, $ 26 mm. Sikkim, Assam. 
D. hypogopa Hmps. (19 b). $: forehead black, hindhead light ochreous-yellow; thorax light ochreous- hypogopa. 
yellow, anteriorly with a black band, abdomen orange with rows of black spots. Forewing ochreous-yellow, 
a black dot at the base, an antemedian oblique band of small, black, oblong spots from the costa to the median, 
and 2 such spots on each side of vein 1; two discoidal spots, traces of a postmedian transverse band of spots 
