BPILOSOMA. ■!(!•"> 



connecting the subbasal and postmedial bands; hind wing with the 

 inner area tinged with yellow, the subterminal spots towards tonvus 

 confluent. 



Assam, Khasis, type t J in Coll. Rothschild. 



1703a. Spilosoma neglecta. (Plate LVIII. fig. 9.) 

 Diacrisia neglecta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 121 (1910). 



J. Head and thorax white; palpi black fringed with white 

 hair; sides of frons black; antenna' with the branches blackish; 

 fore femora above and tibiae at inner side black, the tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen orange with dorsal and lateral series of black 

 spots obscured by orange hair, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 while. Fore wing white, sometimes with traces of a fuscous 

 diseoidal spot, 



5 . Abdomen with large dorsal and lateral black spots and a sub- 

 lateral series except on basal and terminal segments ; hind wing 

 with slight fuscous diseoidal spot and traces of subterminal spots 

 below veins and 2. 



11 ah. Si mum (Moller),\ 6, 1 $ , type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild; 

 Assam, Naga Hills; Madras, Rampur, Palm Hills; Bubma, 

 Bernarimyo. Exp., 6 38, § 40 millim. 



1704. Spilosoma indica, insert (syn.) : — 



Diacrisia fiavifrons, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 122 (1910). 

 Diacrisia albens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 137 (1910). 



Madeas, She varoy Hills, typef o* flavifrous in Coll. Rothschild ; 

 Teayancoee, Pirmad, typet $ aliens in Coll. Rothschild. 



1707. Spilosoma nivea. 



Larva. Wileman, Phil. Journ. Sci. xii. p. 236, pi. i. f. 8 ((1917). 



Head ochreous black with white V-mark ; body red-brown with 

 darker intersegmental bands ; dorsal and lateral fascicles of hair 

 grey with a reddish tinge ; spiracles white ; legs and prolegs 

 ochreous. Food-plants: Plantago major and Taraxacum officinale. 



1710. Spilosoma virginica, insfrt: — 

 ab.fumosa, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. 3, p. 2S (1900). 

 Blackish brown ; fore wings with the veins narrowly white. 

 Larva swimming. Dow, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. ix. p. 62 (1915). 



*1711 a. Spilosoma lifuensis. (Plate LVIII. fig. 10.) 

 Diacrisia lifuensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 122 (1910). 



c? • Head and thorax white with a few brownish hairs ; palpi 

 crimson, black at tips ; sides of frons and antennae black-brown; 

 fore coxae and femora above crimson, the tibia; and tarsi streaked 



