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DASYCHIRA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
feminula. 
thwaitesi. 
dudgeoni. 
orirnba. 
magnolia. 
cymata. 
cinctata. 
complicata. 
nigra. 
lineata. 
D. feminula Hm.ps. is certainly closely allied to bhana Moore, but the has the forewings liued ochreous 
with rather distinctly prominent ochreous markings on the transverse bands, whereas the $ is purple grey; 
the forewing with darker spots, undulate ante- and postmedian lines touching each other on the posterior margin, 
the discocellular spot brown and a brown, irregular submarginal band, the hindwings light grey. India: Nilgiri 
Hills. 
D. thwaitesi Moore (= pudica Moore) (38 c). The <$ differs from horsfieldii (38 c) by the head and thorax 
being whiter; forewing purely white, the two postmedian lines nearer at the margin, the submarginal line absent, 
abdomen and hindwing brown without orange. $ white, faintly speckled black, from the costal margin of the 
forewing there extend median and postmedian dark streaks, the lines very faint; hindwing purely white. Expanse 
of wings: 40, $ 50 mm. Ceylon, Nilgiri Hills, Trevandrum. 
D. dudgeoni Swinh. (38 e). Both sexes: antennae, palpi, head, thorax and forewings dark brown; 
the latter in some places reddish-grey with two similar ring-spots near the base, an oblique, indistinct transverse 
row of moon-spot-s and a double row of similar light spots near the margin; fringes speckled with a light basal 
line. Abdomen and hindwing uni-coloured light brownish-grey. Under surface whitish-grey with traces of a 
dark, grey, discal transverse band in both wings. Abdomen without dorsal scale-combs. Expanse of wings: 
$ 37, $ 42 mm. India: Sikkim and Khasia Hills. 
D. orirnba Swinh. (38 a). Antennae, thorax and forewing brown, the latter with a discal double band 
of sharply angled black spots, which are largest in the $; a submarginal row of black moon-spots. Hindwing 
grey, fringes grey with a whitish basal line. Under surface grey with a brown, curved discal line on both wings. 
Expanse of wings: $ 39, $ 47 mm. Shillong, Khasia Hills. 
D. niagnalia Swinh. (38 c). <$ and 9 olive-brown. Forewing with a brown discocellular spot encircled 
by an ochreous, and one basal, antemedian and postmedian, sinuate, blackish-brown transverse line each, a 
distal, very sinuate, ochreous transverse line and ochreous marginal moon-spots, hindwing brown with traces 
of a discal band and of a discocellular spot. Under surface dark brownish-grey with a brown discal transverse 
band. Expanse of wings: <$ 39, $ 42 mm. India, Khasia Hills. 
D. cymata Swinh. (38 e). $ antennae, upperside of palpi, head, thorax and forewing dark olive-brown; 
the latter with moon-shaped, black transverse lines in some places marked white, extending subbasally, medially, 
discally and submarginally, the second of which shows two large teeth; discocellular spot large, moon-shaped, 
ochreous, encircled by black. Hindwings uni-coloured, light greyish-brown. Abdomen grey with a brown 
dorsal stripe. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. Darjeeling. 
D. cinctata Moore. The $ deviates from albescens by the thorax being hued with brown and the abdomen 
curled black. Forewing with antemedian and postmedian, black costal spots; the antemedian, postmedian 
and submarginal undulate lines are more distinct. Hindwing with a dark discocellular spot, a dark submarginal 
band and marginal line. In the $ the thorax is not hued with brown; the forewings are more speckled brown. 
Expanse of wings: 62, $ 82 mm. India: Darjeeling. 
D. complicata 1 Vkr. (= pustulifera Wkr.) (38 d). $ head and collar whitish, palpi at the sides black. 
Thorax brown, prothorax spotted black. Abdomen orange, above darker, the anal brush and lateral brushes 
white. Forewing red-brown, a subbasal, undulate, black line with a macular band between the latter and the 
double antemedian line, a reniform spot margined with black, an undulate and curved postmedian line and 
distally to it a macular band, an undulate submarginal line. Fringes spotted light and dark. Hindwing yellowish- 
white, the basal area of the posterior margin hued orange, a dark spot at the end of the cell and a post- 
median band. Fringes spotted black. $ lighter, abdomen above with a sharply marked row of black spots. 
Expanse of wings: $ 58, $ 86 mm. North India: Sikkim (Darjeeling). 
D. nigra Hmps. (38 e). $: forewing dark brown with some silvery scales and a black antemedian, 
median and limbal transverse band, and a distally lighter sublimbal line in the middle angularly broken. Hind¬ 
wing greyish-brownish with a darker marginal line and obsolete vein 5. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Sikkim, 
Bhutan. 
D. lineata Wkr. (47 a). $: white. Forewing with a fine, antemedian black line being angled on the 
median vein, with indistinct, dentate postmedian and submarginal lines, the postmedian line being parted 
and enclosing the discocellular; both wings with a marginal row of spots. The is smaller, the postmedian 
and sometimes the submedian undulate line are more distinct. Expanse of wings: 85 mm. Sikkim, Sylhet, 
East Pegu. 
