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with dark scales, and with a brownish hue, with a dentate, subbasal, black line, two median lines, a reniform 
spot encircled by dark, a postmedian undulate line and an irregularly dentate submarginal line. Hindwing 
pale with an orange dorsal area, a black discocellular spot and a brownish marginal area. Expanse of wings: 
46 mm. India, Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Palawan, Sarawak, reported also from North Queensland. The latter 
form, however, which I have seen and which I presume to be ,,D. horsfieldi “ of the authors, deviates so much 
from the type that it must at least be distinguished as a local race. It is ($) a little smaller (expanse of the 
wings: 63 mm), the forewings without submarginal lines, the abdominal dorsum and the dorsal area of 
the hindwing dirty ochreous-yellowish, the hindwing only beneath with a distinct discocellular spot, the post- 
median line of the forewing, in the middle towards the margin, before and behind the middle towards the base, 
is more distinctly convex than in the typical form (besides zigzag-shaped as in the latter form). This is the 
only quite distinct line; a submedian line in the middle towards the base convex or almost broken does not 
quite reach the costal margin, and the antemedian line is only recognizable in the costal area. I call this form 
queeiislandica form. nov. The type from Kuranda is in the Coll. Seitz. -— Larva yellow with a dorsal black 
band between the 4th and 5th rings and with 5 tufts of yellow hairs on the 4th to 7th rings and on the 
11th ring. On tea-plants. 
D. olearia Swinh. J olive-brown, beneath whitish, thorax in front orange. Forewing with an orange, 
posteriorly prolonged area in the basal half, brown veins, and indistinctly lighter longitudinal lines. $ light 
brownish-yellow, forewing with brown longitudinal lines in the middle of the marginal half, beneath with a 
subapical brown streak, hindwing a little lighter than the forewing and entirely or almost entirely uni-coloured. 
Expanse of wings: $ 32, $ 39 mm. Poona and Nilgiri Hills in India. 
D. virescens Moore. $ head, thorax and forewing of a lighter green. Abdomen orange, sometimes 
above greenish. Forewing with a very prominently marked reniform spot filled up with grey. Hindwing orange 
with a large black discocellular spot and submarginal spots at the anal angle and at the apex, as well as with 
a sinuate marginal line. Under surface not hued black. Expanse of wings: 76 mm. Sikkim. 
D. moerens Fldr. (41 e). <$ dark olive-brown, forewing with double subbasal, antemedian and post¬ 
median undulate and angular lines, submarginal and marginal rows of indistinct moon-spots, a reniform spot 
with indistinctly darker contours. Hindwing blackish-brown with red-brown, darker spotted fringes. Under 
surface red-brown with dark brown spots. $ much lighter, the lines of the forewing distally tinted purple-grey. 
Expanse of wings: 42, 9 60 mm. — Larva dark brown with a reddish lateral line, two long, dark brown dorsal 
tufts on the 4th and lltli segments, and two shorter, light brown tufts on the 5th, 6th and 7th segments. 
Ceylon. (According to Swinhoe [1903] this insect would be a Lymantria). — Dasychira moerens Btlr. 1882 
nec Fldr. 1868 may be denominated D. renominata nom. nov. 
D. flavicosta Hmps. Brown, costa and the subapical part of the marginal area yellow. India. 
D. varia Wkr. (= maruta Moore). £ body brownish-grey. Palpi at the sides black. Forewing brownish- 
grey with an almost erect, subbasal, dark line, an indistinct, dark, forked antemedian line, a dark discocellular 
spot, a black, post median double line and a submarginal line of moon-spots. Hindwing light brown with traces 
of a dark discocellular spot and a postmedian band as well as a dark marginal line. The ground-colour is some¬ 
times hued olive-greenish. Expanse of wings: 70 mm. India: Sikkim, Subathu, Dalhousie. — The light green 
larva lives on Leucosceptrum canum and is haired green. 
D. invaria Wkr. (38 b). is described by Walker as brownish, with faintly piebald forewings exhibiting 
indistinct, oblique, somewhat undulate, blackish bands, from the Philippines; the hindwings are expressly 
denoted as darker than the forewings, whereby this form is discernible from inclusa Wkr. (38 a) from Java, 
with which it is often synonymized and in which the hindwings are rather lighter than the forewings. Expanse 
of wings of invaria: 28% mm. — patula Wkr. ferruginous, beneath grey. Forewing spotted black, partly 
fawn-coloured with some indistinct and irregular black transverse lines composed of moon-spots. Hindwing 
greyish-brown. Length of body: 14,3 mm. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. Sarawak. -—- <$$ from Luzon, where 
the species flies in January till April, October and November, deviate from the typical form by the white basal 
spot not being present, whereas many $$ show a white streak at the cell-end. Beneath the wings are uni-coloured 
brownish-grey with a dark transverse band, and an ensiform spot at the cell-end on both wings. This form 
may be called demaculata form. nov. The larva belonging to it lives on ,,Mauzanas de China“, and is densely 
haired brown, brown with two light ochreous, almost white longitudinal stripes, between which there are 4 
brush-shaped, light- brown hair-tufts on the 4th to 7th segments; there also occur, however, larvae of a blackish- 
brown colouring. For the pupation it makes a large web und in it a dense casing, usually beneath railings. 
Pupal rest in January and February lasting for 11 days. — D. invaria besides occurs in India and Hongkong. 
queenslan- 
dica. 
olearia. 
virescens. 
moerens. 
renominata. 
flavicosta. 
varia. 
invaria. 
inclusa. 
patula. 
demaculata. 
