Sl'Il.dsoM \. 373 



scries of Irregular grey spots defined by black-brown; a minute 

 black spot at base of cell, a subbasa] spot below costa and 



two below the cell, with sometimes sonic points in the cell, an 

 elongate grey and Mack' spot beyond them below the cell; an 

 oblique antemedial series of three irregular spots from costa 

 to below the ceil and spots above ami i> low vein 1 ; two elongate 

 medial spots below costa and spots above and below vein I : 

 a very irregular patch in ami below end of cell emitting a 

 streak between veins 4 and 3 to the subterminal series, where 

 it forks : ;i small spot in upper end id' cell, spots above and 

 below base of vein <> ami spot above them on costa ; a postmedial 

 spot on costa with slight mark below it, spot above vein I ami 

 spots above and below vein 1 ; an oblique subterminal series of 

 spots from costa to vein 4, a spot on vein 2 and spots above and 

 below vein I; short streaks before termen above and below vein 5, 

 above vein 4 and below '.i ; a series of small spots on termen and 

 cilia. Hind wing semihyaline white with a small blackish dis- 

 coidal spot and subterminal spots above vein o and below 2 ; the 

 underside with spot or wedge-shaped mark frommiddleof costa and 

 sometimes a slight postmedial bar from costa. 



Hab. Soma.lila.tsti) (Urakc-Bruckman), 2 2 type. Exp. 4G- 

 52 millim. 



L7305. Spilosoma rattrayi. (Plate L VIII. fig. L6.) 

 Diacnsia rattrayi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 129 (1910). 



<J . Head and thorax white tinged with ochreous, the teguhe 

 near tips, patagia at middle, and shoulders with blackish spots ; 

 palpi at sides and antennas black; fore tibiae streaked with black, 

 the mid tibiae and the tarsi banded with black: abdomen orange- 

 yellow with dorsal series of black spots. Fore wing white tinged 

 with ochreous and with series of small annulate black spots, the 

 annuli formed by aggregated scales ; an antemedial series of rive 

 spots, the spot in cell further from base, with spots beyond them 

 below median nervure and above vein 1 ; a medial series of six 

 spots, excurved at median nervure and the spot on costa idled in 

 with black ; a spot in upper angle of cell; a postmedial series of 

 nine spots, excurved between veins 5 and 3 where the two spot-, are 

 con joined, then incurved, spots beyond them on costa and above 

 veins (5 and 5; a subterminal series of spots, excurved at vein 5 

 and angled inwards below vein i to the postmedial series, ending 

 at tornus ; a terminal scries of small black spots from below vein 7 

 to above 2. Hind wing semihyaline yellowish whit.'. 



5- Abdomen with dorsal and lateral black bands and sublateral 

 series of spots ; hind wing with subterminal blackish spots above 

 veins 5 ami below 2, the underside with black discoidal point and 

 postmedial points on costa and above and below vein 7. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha ( Spurrell), I $ , Kumasi {Saudi 

 I 5; Uganda., Entebbe [Jackson, Rattray), typef 6 , 2 in Coll. 

 Ifothschild. Mpumu (Sir I). Bruce), 2 5, Busaga, Hamuli 

 1 Mathers), V 2 ■ Exp; 6 42, 2 50 millim. 



