368 LITHOSIAD.E. 



orange; pectus and legs yellow: the fore and hind tibiae black 

 above, the extremities of hind femora black, the tarsi black ; 

 abdomen yellow witli dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black 

 spots except on basal and terminal segments. Fore wing silvery 

 whit.-, the costa orange; a black discoidal spot; cilia yellow. 

 Hind wing white, thinly scaled ; a blackish discoidal point ; cilia 

 yellow. 



Hub. Axgol.v, Bihe, type t 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 50 

 millim. 



*171S a. Spilosoma oligosticta. n. n. (Plate LYIII. fig. 14.) 



Estiijmenejaelsoni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 164 (1901), nee p. 140. 



o . Head and thorax white, the shoulders with black spots, 

 the patagia with black points ; palpi black above; antenna? with 

 the branches black ; femora yellow above, the fore tibae blackish, 

 the tarsi ringed with blackish ; abdomen yellow, the base, anal tuft, 

 and ventral surface white, a dorsal series of black spots and lateral 

 points on medial segments. Fore wing white, semihyaline except 

 the marginal areas; obliquely placed antemedial black points below 

 median nervure and above vein 1 ; a point at lower angle of cell, 

 two subterminal points between veins 8 and 7. and two between 

 veins d and 3, and a terminal series. Hind wing white, semi- 

 hyaline except the marginal areas. 



Hab. Uganda, Entebbe (Jackson), typed J in Coll. Roth- 

 schild, Kampala. Exp, -12 millim. 



17 is. Spilosoma urticae, insert : — 



ab. niqrosfriata, Schawerda, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, lx. p. 220 



(1910). 

 Fore wing with slight black streaks. 

 ab. pluripuncta, Rebelr ined. 

 Tore wing with numerous black points. 



1719. Spilosoma luhricipeda, insert : 



ab. pavctpuncta, Puchs, Jabrb. Nasa. Ver. hi. p. 70 (1903). 



=sangaica. 

 ab. unipuncta, Strand. Arch. Naturv. Christian, xxv. no. 9, p. 23 (1903). 

 Hind wing with discoidal point only. — Norway. 



ab. ochrea, Linstow, Intern. Ent. Zeit. v. p. 265 (1911). 

 lor ab. 5. 



ab. brunnea, Oberth. Et. L£p. Cump. vi. p. 326, pi. exxii. ff. 1073-8 

 (1912). 



Fore wing tinged with brown. 



ab. transitoria, Oberth. l : t. Lep. Comp. vi. p. 326, pi. exxii. ff. 1079-80 



(1912). 

 ab. qodarti, Oberth. Id. Lop. Comp. vi. p. 326. pi. exxn. ff. 1085-6 



(1912). 



