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I 721 a. Spilosoma irregularis. 



Diacrisia irregularis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 12:.. pi. 1 i. f. 25 (1910). 



$. Head and thorax pure white, the vertex of head, tegul», 

 patagia, and dorsum of thorax with pale brown patches; palpi and 

 antennae brown ; legs In-own and white with the femora crimson 

 above ; abdomen pale crimson, white at base, extremity, and <>n 

 ventral surface, the crimson part with broad dorsal brown hands. 

 Fore wing pure white ; a subbasal pale brown Viand from costa to 

 submedian fold, angled outwards below the cell ; an antemedial 

 series of small irregular spots: a broad medial hand excurved at 

 median nervure and with irregular edges; a band of small spots 

 and patches just beyond the cell, incurved below lower angle; a 

 postmedial hand interrupted between veins 4>, 3 and with irregular 

 edges; a subterminal series of dentate spots from costa to vein :i 

 and a terminal series of spots. Hind wing pure white; a pale 

 brown diseoidal spot ; a subterminal maculate hand, almost inter- 

 rupted between veins 1 and 3 and very broad towards tornus. 



Hah. C. China, Echang, typef ? in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 60 millim. 



*1721 h. Spilosoma rostagnoi. 



Estigmene rostagnm, Oberth. Et. Lip. Comp. v. i. p. 33(>. pi. lxxxii. ff. 771-2 

 (1911). 



g. Head and thorax white, the patagia and metathorax with 

 black spots ; antennas black ; abdomen scarlet with dorsal series of 

 black bars and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing white ; the base of costa with black streak to the 

 slightly curved antemedial .series of small black spots ; a medial 

 series of partly conjoined black spots, angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique ; a short postmedial black streak on costa, a series of 

 five spots between veins 7 and 3, the two upper spots elongate and 

 the spot below vein 7 conjoined to an oblique maculate fascia from 

 apex, and small spots above and below vein 1; four subterminal 

 spots between veins G and 2, the spot below' vein 6 nearer the 

 termen and an elongate spot below vein 2 ; a series of small black 

 spots on the cilia between apex and vein 2. Hind wing white ; a 

 black diseoidal spot and live small subterminal spots between veins 

 G and 1 ; cilia black at tips at middle. 



$. Thorax with dorsal black streak; fore wing with both sub- 

 basal and antemedial series of black spots, the medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal spots much larger and the series more complete, 

 the medial series angled outwards at end of cell to join the post- 

 medial series ; hind wing with subterminal maculate black hand, 

 interrupted below costa and ending above tornus. 



Hah. W. China, Siao-lu. Exp., 6 58, $ 62 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



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