spilosoma. :37l 



L722c. Spilosoma dollmani, n. sp. (Plate LXTX. fig. 5.) 



d . Head and thorax 'white, the vertex of head with small black 

 spot, the tegulae slightly edged with orange and with dorsal and 

 lateral black spots, the patagia with black spots at shoulders and 

 middle, the pro- and mesothorax with black stripe, the metathorax 

 with black spot, the antennae black, the fi'ons black at sides, the 

 palpi black with some orange at extremity of 1st joint and white at 

 extremity of 2nd; abdomen orange with dorsal series of black 

 spots except on two basal segments, forming bars on the two 

 terminal segments, the anal tuft white at extremity; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen white, the femora orange above, 

 the fore tibiae black above except at extremity, the mid and hind 

 tibia 1 black at base and with band before extremity on mid tibiae 

 conjoined to a streak at side, the tarsi black with some white at 

 the joints, the abdomen with lateral and sublateral series of black 

 spots. Fore wing white; a black spot at base; three subbasal 

 black spots from costa to below the cell with two black spots 

 beyond them below the cell and one above inner margin followed 

 by spots above and below vein 1 ; an antemedial black maculate 

 band oblique to below the cell, then erect, conjoined in the cell to 

 an incurved medial band from costa to below the cell, where it 

 forms a rather V-shaped patch confluent with the postmedial marks ; 

 a spot on eosta above end of cell, bidentate below, and two spots 

 above middle of inner margin ; a small postmedial spot below costa 

 followed by a very irregular maculate band from costa to vein 2, 

 oblique towards costa, at middle angled outwards and enclosing a 

 small white spot and angled inwards and connected with the medial 

 markings ; three minute postmedial black spots between vein 2 and 

 inner margin ; a terminal series of black spots from below apex to 

 above tornus, the spot below vein 2 triangular. Hind wing white, 

 the inner area clothed with orange hair ; a minute black discoidal 

 spot, small subterminal spots above vein 5 and below veins 2 and 1 ; 

 an irregular black terminal band from apex to above vein 2, en- 

 closing a minute white spot below vein 3, and a spot above vein 1. 



$ . Vertex of head without the black spot ; fore wing with the 

 medial and postmedial black markings more extensive, the ante- 

 medial band conjoined at inner margin to the spot before it, the 

 postmedial band to the spots on termen at discal and submedian 

 folds, a small discoidal spot separate from the spot on costa ; hind 

 wing tinged with orange-yellow except at costa. 



Hah. X.YY. Rhodesia, Solwezi i Dollman ). 1 - T , 1 2 type. Exp., 

 6 52, 2 (52 millim. 



*1723 a. Spilosoma nehallenia. 



IHacrisia nehallenia, Oberth. ,Et. L£p. Comp. v. i. p. 337, pi. lxxxiii. 

 f. 786 (1911). 



(S . Head and thorax ochreous, the head crimson behind, the 

 tegulae with dorsal black spot and black at sides, the thorax with 



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