366 LITHOSIAD.E. 



with black-brown; abdomen crimson, the base, extremity, and 

 ventral surface white. Wings uniform silvery white. 



2 . Abdomen with dorsal series of small black spots on the 

 crimson segments. 



Hab. Loyalty Is., Lifu, type f d , $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp., 

 d 34, ? 44 millim. 



*1712 a. Spilosoma caeria. 



Diacrisia cmria, Piing. Iris, six. p. 79, pi. vi. f. 7 (1906) ; Seitz, Gr.-Schm. 

 pal. ii. p. 88, pi. 17 a. 



d . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi, sides of frons, antenna', 

 tibiae, and tarsi black, the fore femora with some crimson hair 

 above; abdomen white, crimson above except at base and extremity, 

 with dorsal series of black bars and lateral and sublateral series of 

 small black spots. Fore wing pure white, the apical part of costal 

 area faintly tinged with brown ; a small black spot below base of 

 costa and obliquely placed subbasal spots below costa and cell, 

 sometimes with points between them ; four obliquely placed ante- 

 medial spots from costa to below cell and spots above and below 

 vein 1 ; a small spot at upper angle of cell and rather X-shaped 

 mark at lower angle; a more or less developed postmedial series of 

 small spots, sometimes forming a maculate band, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique ; small subterminal spots below costa, 

 above vein 5, below vein 2, and above vein 1. Hind wing pure 

 white with black discoidal bar and small subterminal spots below 

 costa, on vein 5, and at veins 2 and 1. 



Hab. Tibet, Kuku-Nor, type f d in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 44 millim. 



1713. Spilosoma rubusta, inseri : — 

 snbsp. hainana, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 123 (1910). 



Smaller; fore wing of male with small antemedial black spot 

 above vein 1 ; female with postmedial black point above vein 1 only 

 and the hind wing with the discoidal spot and with subterminal 

 spot below vein 2. 



Hab. China, Hainan, Cheng-Mai, typed, 2 i» Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp., d 42, $ 50 millim. 



1716. Spilosoma punctulata, insert (syn.) : — 



Spilosoma nyassana, Bartel, Iris. xvi. p. 17:. (1903). 

 Spilosoma nivaria, Bartel, iris, xvi. p. 177 (1903). 



1716 a. Spilosoma cincticorpus, n. sp. (Plate LV11I. fig. 11.) 



2- Head and thorax white ; palpi Mark above; antennas black 

 below; hack of head and tegulae at tips yellow, the tegulae, 

 shoulders, patagia, and nietathorax with black spots ; fore coxae 



