374 J.1TH0SIADJE. 



*1730c. Spilosoma schraderi. 



Diacrisia schraderi, "Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 123, pi. U. f. 29 (1910). 



2 • Head and thorax white, the back of head, tegulae, shoulders, 

 and patagia with small black spots, the metathorax with larger 

 spot : palpi blackish, yellow below : antennae black, white towards 

 base : pectus and Ices yellow, the tibia? and tarsi banded with 

 black: abdomen yellow, the extremity whitish, dorsal, lateral, and 

 sublateral scries of black spots. Fore wing white with numerous 

 grey spots edged with black, mostly small but varying much in 

 size and shape, some of them forming traces of antemedial and 

 medial lino angled outwards in. cell: a series of small black spots 

 on termen and cilia. Hind wing pale yellow witli small black dis- 

 coidal spot and four subterminal spots, the spot below costa 

 minute; the underside with two small black spot- from middle of 

 costa. 



Hab. Eeitbea, Salomona (Schrader), type f 2 in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp. 4n millim. 



*1730<7. Spilosoma pardaliua. 



sia pardalina, Roths. Not. Zool. xvii. p. 12s. pi. 14. i. 14 (1! 



2. Head and thorax white with grey patches edged with black 

 on back of head, tegulae, shoulders, patagia, pro-, meso- and meta- 

 thorax : palpi black, yellow below: lower part of frons blackish; 

 antennae black : pectus white ; legs black ringed with yellow ; 

 abdomen orange, the extremity and ventral surface white, a dorsal 

 series of short black bands and lateral, sublateral. and subventral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing creamy white with numerous 

 grey spots edged with black, forming subbasal. antemedial, medial, 

 and postmedial series and two subterminal series running into one 

 another and terminating at vein 3 ; a series of grey spots edged 

 with black on termen and cilia. Hind wing pale semihyaline 

 yellow: a small brown discoidal lunule; a subterminal maculate 

 band from costa to vein d and from vein 3 to termen at vein 1 : 

 a terminal series of black points and striae from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside with some black at basi I sta, a bar from middle of 

 costa to discal fold and short postmedial bar. 



//•-A. UgajS"DA, Victoria Nyanza, (Jkerewe, type t 2 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. E.'-ji. 51) millim. 



1730 e. Spilosoma yenieneiisis. i Plate LVIII. hg. 17. ) 



lh 11 apsn. Not. Zool. xxiii. p. 2:35 (1916). 



-' . Head white tinged with yellow, a slight brown streak on 



vertex, the antennae brown, tin- sides of frons and palpi black; 



thorax fulvous yellow with black spots on the tegulae, curved 



stripes on shoulders and patagia, ami three streaks on prothorax : 



_• brown and whitish, the feinora orange-yellow above ; abdomen 



