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DASYCHIRA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
bhana. 
tristis. 
preangeren- 
sis. 
cerigoides. 
basinigra. 
asi'ata. 
albiplaga. 
anaha. 
D. bhana Moore (38 b) is distinguished from the most closely allied tenebrosa Wkr. and nigritula Wkr. 
by an ochreous spot at the end of the forewing; it is much smaller than nigritula. £ dark brown, forewing with 
5 transverse lines formed of black crescents, distally bordered by lustrous brassy scales; beyond the cell 
a ferruginous spot. Hindwing lighter brown with two indistinct, dark, discal transverse bands. Under surface 
brown with two brown, still more indistinct bands. Fringes lighter and darker brown. Expanse of wings: 
37 mm. Larva dark brown and haired black, on various plants. Darjeeling. 
D. tristis Heyl. $. Is said to resemble D. moerens Fldr. (41 e). Grevish-brown with greyish-white 
markings consisting on the forewing of: a basal, recurved band, an undulate band across the middle of the wing, 
being above (in front) broad, but decreasing in width towards the posterior margin and being situate between 
two whitish transverse lines, the distal one of which is dentate, and being in some places spotted brown; besides 
there is a semi-terminal line formed of brown dots distally liued whitish. Fringes greyish-whitish, spotted 
blackish. Hindwing greyish-yellow with a brown sublimbal line and brown veins; beneath with a brown cell- 
spot, two transverse lines and spotted fringes. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Padang, Sumatra. 
D. preangerensis Heyl. $ head and thorax with black and white hair. Abdomen greyish-brown with 
a yellowish white anal brush. Forewing greyish-blackish, strewn with white scales; a white basal transverse 
figure formed of triangles, an almost straight transverse line, between this line and the basal figure there are 
4 large black spots, another transverse line being partly double and formed of white mooii-spots, a large, black 
cell-spot and some white discal streaks, besides a strong, snow-white, zigzag-line by which the uni-coloured 
greyish-white terminal area is separated. Fringes grey with a brown parting line. Beneath the wing is lighter 
and darker brown. Hindwing greyish-brown, beneath with lighter and darker diffuse spots. Expanse of wings: 
36 mm. Preanger (Java). -—- It may be a Mardara. 
D. cerigoides Wkr. <$. Greyish-white. Palpi very broad and obtuse, beneath broadly margined with 
black. Antennae short, very broadly combed. Thorax with a blurred black band. Abdomen brownish-yellow, 
projecting far beyond the anal angle. Forelegs densely haired. Wings beneath whitish with an oblong, black 
discal spot. Forewing brownish-yellow with an oblique, long, narrow, whitish discal mark margined with black; 
between it and the base there are 6 irregular, black zigzag-lines, whilst 3 black, oblique ones extend between 
the discal mark and the margin, the second of which is incomplete. Hindwing pale yellow; the discal spot and 
marginal band brownish-black. Length of body: 20.4 mm. Length of wings: 41 mm. Sarawak. 
D. basinigra Heyl. <$. Allied to D. mendosa Hbn. (38 a). Head, palpi, and collar white. The strongly 
combed antennae are brown with reddish pinnae. Thorax white with a brown median longitudinal stripe. Ab¬ 
domen with the anal tuft greyish-yellow. Forewing with a greyish-yellow ground, slightly strewn with ferru¬ 
ginous scales, and with some jet-black dots at the base, two transverse lines across the surface of the wing, bet¬ 
ween the first of them and the base of the wing 3 large black spots, between the two lines the ground-colouring 
is white, outside of the second line there are some white streaks. Between vein 6 and the posterior margin 
extends a terminal row of black dots. Hindwing greyish-yellowish, dusted with brown, with a brown cell-spot 
and a brown sublimbal line. Expanse of wings: 23 mm. Padang (Sumatra). 
D. asvata Moore (38 b). Dark brown. forewing with a black spot at the base, a white, narrow, 
forked line along the discoidal veins from the base to the apex, a dark zigzag transverse line at % from the 
apex, and a submarginal row of dark spots; hindwing light brown; body and extremities dark brown. In the 
2 the discoidal and apical veins whitish, in the surface and along the margin some dark spots. Expanse of 
wings: $ 34, $ 58 mm. Java; Dinding Island (Malaya). 
D. albiplaga Sivinh. ($ = Orgyia nebulosa Swinh. 1906 nec Wkr.) (38 e) $ and $• Greyish-whitish; 
thorax greyish-brownish like the forewing which is in some places whitish and exhibits a broad, almost straight, 
whitish band from the base to the apex through the costal half, moreover an antemedian, dentate, white line 
distally margined with brown, a similar postmedian line, though proximally margined with brown, a submarginal 
whitish band composed of moon-spots, a row of brown marginal moon-spots. Fringes white, spotted brown. 
Hindwing in the <$ light brown, in the $ almost white. Expanse of wings: $ 27, $ 46 mm. East Java. 
D. anaha Swinh. (38 e). <$ and $. Dark brown, hindwings of a lighter brown. Forewing with a large, 
though indistinct discocellular spot, hindwing with traces of a dark discal band. Fringes ochreous, spotted 
brown. Under surface in the ground dark ochreous-grey, in the with a brown stripe from the base to the end 
of the cell on the forewing, also in the $ with a blurred, brown discal band spotted darker, hindwing 
with a brown discocellular spot and a blurred brown median and discal band, the median band being in the 
$ quite indistinct. Expanse of wings: <$ 29.4, $ 34% mm. $ from Padang (Sumatra); $ from Batavia, 
(Java). Allied to D. bhana. 
