DASYCHIRA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
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D. albescens Moore (38 c) body white or greyish-white, palpi at the sides black, teeth of the combs albescens. 
red-brown. Forewing silky white, feebly speckled grey, at the end of the cell a brush of erect scales, very faded 
antemedian and postmedian undulate lines. Hindwing white with an indistinctly darker discocellular spot 
and a curved sub marginal band. $ with white palpi, the forewing densely speckled brown, and with more 
distinct antemedian, postmedian and submarginal lines. Expanse of wings: £ 58, $ 68 mm. Sikkim (Darjeeling). 
D. strigata Moore (= niveosparsa Btlr.) (47 a). Head and thorax iron-grey, abdomen faintly huecl sirigata. 
yellowish. Forewing brownish iron-grey, with an indistinct, angled subbasal line, a double, antemedian undulate 
line, a reniform spot bordered with dark, a double undulate postmedian line and a single submarginal line. 
Hindwing brown, in the dorsal area hued orange, with an indistinct dark spot at the end of the cell and with 
a postmedian band and marginal line. Expanse of wings: <$ 62, $ 73 mm. Sikkim, Simla, Masuri, Khasia Hills, 
Darjeeling. 
D. postfusca Svrinh. (38 e). <$. White. Antennae with reddish pinnae. Abdomen above reddish-yellow, postfusca. 
Forewing speckled dark; an irregular antemedian spot margined with dark on the costa; an incurved, irregular, 
dentate median line; a more prominent, dentate postmedian line extending obliquely from the costa to vein 6 
where it is very angular and then incurved; an irregular, dentate submarginal line. Hindwing dark. Under 
surface suffused with dark, in the hindwing with a cell-spot and a curved postmedian line. Expanse of wings: 
46 mm. India, Kliasis. 
D. angulata Hmps. (38 e). The margin of the forewing is behind the apex emarginated and on vein angulata. 
4 angled. <J brownish-grey, speckled with brown. Forewing with three black discocellular spots and a marginal 
row. Abdomen and dorsal margin of the hindwing suffused with a reddish brown, a dark moon-spot at the 
cell-end, and indistinct, dark marginal spots. Under surface white, in both wings with moon-spots at the end 
of the cell and black marginal spots, hindwing with some dark postmedian spots. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. 
India: Khasia Hills, Sikkim, Upper Burma. 
D. signifera Wkr. <J white. Head with a black line on each side of the forehead. Wings faintly opalescent signijera. 
Forewing at the end rounded off with two black spots on the costal margin towards the apex and with traces 
of a grey distal line accompanied by three black dots on the veins; the discocellular spot black and parted. 
Hindwing along the posterior margin spotted black, beneath with a black discal spot and with grey distal and 
submarginal bands; the latter are shortened anteriorly. Length of body: 10 mm. Expanse of wings: 24% mm. 
Sarawak. 
D. brunnescens Moore (41 f). <$ body grey, speckled with brown, abdomen, however, light brown, brunnes- 
Teeth of combs red-brown. Forewing greyish-white, speckled with brown scales, with an undulate basal line, 
two subbasal and two median lines, as well as a submarginal, light-margined line composed of moon-spots, 
and a discocellular line. Hindwing greyish-brown, towards the margin lighter, the veins and a submarginal 
band darker. $ with much lighter hindwings. Expanse of wings: 60, $ 70 mm. Sikkim. 
D. chloroptera Hmps. (41 f). head and thorax dark green; abdomen blackish-brown, the three chloroptera. 
first segments with black hair-brushes; the anal brush reddish-yellow. Forewing dark green with indistinct 
undulate median, postmedian, submarginal and marginal lines. Hindwing black with a broad, irregular, yellow 
marginal band. Under surface ochreous, in the basal area hued blackish, with a black discocellular spot and 
an undulate postmedian line. Expanse of wings: 56 mm. India: Khasia Hills. 
D. perdix Moore (38 c.) is said practically to be a Notodontid (Stauropus). 
D. baruna Moore (41 f). 2 forewing green, along the costal margin brownish with several indistinct, banma. 
transverse undulate lines and a brown spot near the base of the costal margin. Hindwing light brown. Antennae, 
head, thorax and forelegs green, hindlegs and abdomen brown. Expanse of wings: 49 mm. Java; Penang. — 
viridis Druce $ body and extremities brown or brownish-green. Forewing brown, densely marked with fine, viridis. 
sinuate, light green transverse lines; the costal margin partly with a white marginal line. Hindwings light 
brown. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Perak, at altitudes of 2000 to 3500 ft. 
D. costalis Wkr. (38 b). brown. Under surface and legs brownish white. Antennae brownish white costalis. 
with brown pinnae. Eorewing light greyish-brown, in some places darker, and with 2 antemedian bands, a 
thin undulate postmedian band, a subapical costal spot and some smaller spots; some of these spots are also 
beneath recognizable. Hindwing light greyish-brown, above uni-coloured, beneath with a brown discal spot 
and a similar interrupted submarginal band. Expanse of wings: 24% mm. Java, Burma. 
