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DASYCHIRA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
minor. 
lcenricki. 
vitensis. 
subnigra. 
subnigro- 
punctata. 
brunnea. 
ignotana. 
praeusta. 
grossa. 
wing and encloses a black longitudinal streak interrupted by a transverse streak. A transverse zigzag-line 
6 mm from the base of the wing. About 1 mm distant from the margin extends a black, almost straight trans¬ 
verse line interrupted on the veins. Hindwing uni-coloured greyish-white. Under surface of the forewing whitish, 
in the terminal half and in the costal area hued greyish. Head and thorax light greyish-brown, abdomen and 
extremities whitish. Expanse of wings: 49 mm; length of forewing: 24 mm. Formosa, Suisharyo, in February. 
D. minor B.-Bak. (38 f). $ body and extremities grey, the latter partly black. Forewing greyish-white, 
in some places speckled darker; the basal line indicated by 2 short streaks, a double, dentate median line of 
which the proximal line is interrupted by a whitish triangular patch, an undulate, sometimes double postmedian 
line, then follows a whitish area, and then two interrupted, indistinct undulate lines between this area and 
the margin; fringes grey and white. Hindwing whitish with a grey marginal area, fringes as in the forewing. 
The forewing beneath smoky black, at the posterior margin whitish, hindwing beneath white, beyond the cell 
with a dark transverse streak very distinct on the costal margin. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. British New Guinea. 
D. kenricki B.-Bak. <$ head and thorax grey, palpi brownish-black with a grey apex, abdomen 
yellow with dark transverse bands and a dark anal brush. Fore wing grey, speckled lighter and darker, in the 
basal area whitish; a broad, dark median band angled blackish at the sides, then follows a still darker band 
enclosing the discocellular spot, then a postmedian, dentate, blackish line and a subterminal similar one. Hind¬ 
wing yellow with a blackish postmedian band not reaching the apex. Expanse of wings: 62 to 63 mm. Dinawa 
in British New Guinea. 
D. vitensis B.-Bak. (38 f). <$ greyish-whitish, abdomen perhaps a little darker. Forewing with fine, 
reddish-brown markings: in the basal half of the costal area 4 short transverse streaks, the median line and 
antemedian line fine and partly interrupted, the postmedian line irregular, serrate, curved, the subterminal 
line irregular and interrupted at the veins; fringes white. Hindwing very pale brownish-white, the veins dusted 
darker, fringes white. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Fidji Islands. 
D. subnigra B.-Bak. (38 f). $ head and thorax light grey, palpi black with whitish tips; abdomen 
dark brown, below and at the end whitish. Forewing greyish-white, speckled darker grey; a subbasal, dentate 
black line interrupted in the cell, double and undulate median lines, a dentate postmedian line and a marginal 
line; between the two latter a whitish streak. Hindwing black with greyish-white fringes. On the under surface 
the wings are black with a whitish costal margin, the forewing besides with a whitish border. Expanse of 
wings: 54 to 58 mm. British-New Guinea, in August. 
D. subnigropunctata B.-Bak. (38 f). body and extremities grey. Forewing white, scantily speckled 
grey; the basal line only anteriorly recognizable, the median line interrupted, the postmedian line more distinct 
and undulate. The submarginal line distinct, but interrupted on all the veins. Hindwing white, in the marginal 
area somewhat greyish. Beneath both wings white, very feebly speckled grey, with a very prominent, black, 
discocellular punctiform spot. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. British New Guinea, in September. 
D. brunnea B.-Bak. (38 f). £ forewing grey, speckled brown, the basal and median lines dark and 
interrupted, the postmedian streak distinct, dentate, and on the costal margin double, between this streak 
and the fine, dark submarginal line extends a light grey, deeply dentate transverse stripe; the discocellular 
spot grey with a darker pupil; fringes light brown. Hind wing dark brown witli lighter fringes. Beneath both 
wings are brownish-grey; forewing with an ochreous costal margin, a blackish discocellular spot and whitish 
fringes, the hindwing shows anteriorly purely white, posteriorly partly darker fringes. Head and thorax with 
brown and whitish scales, palpi black with grey tips, abdomen brown with a lighter apex. Expanse of wings: 
54 mm. Dinawa in British New Guinea, in August. 
D. ignotana spec. nov. (38 d, as ignotata). ? from New Guinea. $ dustily and insignificantly coloured 
above and still more so beneath, both wings beneath being coloured as the hindwing above (uni-coloured), except 
a small yellowish patch near the base of the forewing. Thorax beneath and laterally, head, palpi and legs as 
the thoracic dorsum, tarsi above black, beneath light yellowish. Expanse of $ wings: 70 mm. 
D. praeusta Fldr. (47 a). Placed into the genus Anchyneura by the author. <$ wings white, the forewing 
with a brownish costal margin and border, and above with a dark terminal band. Twice smaller than Laelia 
coenosa Hbn. Amboina. 
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D. grossa Pag. (38 g). described from Amboina, has an expanse of 65 mm, is whitish-grey, the legs' 
with blackish spots, abdomen yellowish, forewing with blackish transverse lines and a slanting macula bordered 
with blackish. A double transverse line at % of the wing dark leaden grey, proximally to it is a plain, dentate 
line; the macula is proximally accompanied by a grey, distally by a dentate transverse line, near the distal 
margin two likewise dentate undulate lines. Hindwing yellowish with a border shaded with blackish, and 
yellowish-grev fringes. Under surface yellowish-grey with blackish traces of the dark macula and of the distal 
