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above middle. Hindwing orange with slight black point in end of cell and posi- 

 medial point below costa. Underside of forewing suffused with orange to> 

 beyond the cell, except on costal area ; hindwing with the apical area whitish. 

 • Habitat. — Burma, Myingyan. Exp. 50 mill. 



1169. Diacrisia bimaculata insert (syn.) 1191 Thyrgorina discalis. 



1173. Diacrisia Montana insert (syn.) 1178 Spilosoma brunneum. 



1196. Diacrisia sordidescens, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., III., p. 304 T 

 pi. XLVI., f, 2 (1901) = Spilosoma sordida, Moore, nee. Hiibn. 



1174. Diacrisia strigatula, insert (syn.) Chehnia cervhia Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. 

 Mon., IV, p. 162 (1864). 



Genus Amsacta. Type. 



Amsacta, W\k., IV., 804 (1855) « marginalis. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons and fringed 



below with long hair ; 



frons usually clothed 



1\N lf\\ li^v\ with rough hair ; fore 





"ZW/fl&k isr^SirN V*^ P jfc ^ )fc w ^bise w ith more or less 



£**■ \ t / developed curved claw 



on inner side and short, 

 Amsacta lineola $\ c I aw on ou t e r ; hind ti- 



biae with one pair of spurs. Forewing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 

 4-5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7-8-9-10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hindwing, 

 with veins 3-4 from angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6*7 from upper 

 angle or shortly stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 

 Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinate. 



A. Forewing with well-defined crimson fascia on 



costa 1237. insolata. 



B. Forewing with the crimson costal fascia very 



slight or absent lineola. 



1239. Creatonatus emittens insert Amsacta lineola, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3, 1, p. 465 

 (1793), which has precedence, and Spilosoma strigata, Wlk. Char. Lip. Het., 

 p. 10 (1869). 



[Sect. II. Antennas of male serrate. 



A. Tcgulse edged with scarlet or abnormally with orange. 



a. Hindwing with the termen yellow 1234. flavimargo. 



h. Hindwing with the termen not yellow 1233. collaris. 



B. Tegulaa not edged with scarlet or orange. 



a. Forewing with the ground-color white 1232. moorei. 



b. Forewing with the ground-color pale brown... 1238. albistriga. 

 1238. Amsacta albistriga. 



Laxva 1'3". Head prominent, glabrous red ; body pale red-brown irrorated 

 with very small black spots ; dorsal and lateral series of white spots in the 

 sutures between the somites, each somite with a yellowish red band with two 



