si'ii.oM'M \. 373 



orange with dorsal and lateral series of blackish spots, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing creamy white ; an irregular subbasal 

 maculate black-brown band; an antemedial maculate black -brown 

 band Erom costa to below the cell, a spot ahove vein 1 andelonj 

 spot below it: a large conical patch with waved edges from costa 

 ab >\ ■ en 1 of c '11 to below the c -11. and obliquely-placed spots below 

 origin of vein 2 and above vein 1; a large conical patch irrorated 

 with white and with waved edges from apical pari of costa to 

 vein 4 and an oblique band with waved edges Erom vein :> to inner 

 margin; an incurved subterminal sefi >ots from vein 5 to 



tornus : a series of spots on the te'rmen and cilia. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline yellowish white, the inner area golden yellow; a small 

 blackish discoidal spot, subterminal spot in discal fold and terminal 

 spot at vein 1 ; the underside with small medial blackish spot 

 below vein 8. 



Hab. Arabia, Yemen (Bury), I 6 type. Exp. 12 millim. 



1700/: Spilosoma investi?atorum. (Plate LVIII. fig. 18.) 

 Spilosoma invet n, Karsch. Werther. Deutsch-O.-Afrika, p. 313 



398). 



I cribraria, Bartel, Iris. xvi. p. 176 (1903). 

 mhondana, 13.irt._a. Iris, xvi. p. 179 (1903). 



Differs from D. maculosa in the fore wing having the spots not 

 centred with grey. 



Hab. Sierra Leone (Mitford), I ?; Gold Coast, Kumasi 

 (Sanders), 1 2- Angola. 1 6; Uganda {Christy), 1 2, Victoria 

 Nyanza ( Hannington), 1 2; Br. E. Africa, Mombasa i N, 

 1 tf,Machakos (Orawshay), 2 _'. 1 : . Takaungu (Grates) 



1 cS, Munisu (L-l. Bel , 1 \ Njoro (Cholmley), 1 '. 

 Ntebbi (Betton), 1 6\ Be. C. Africa, Fwamho ( . 1 \ 

 Zomba ( Manninqold). 3 2 ; Mashonaland, Salisbury I M rshall), 

 7 c?,4 ?; S. Rhodesia, Bulawayo i Eyles), 1 2; Mozambique, 



2 d . Exp. 4-2 58 millim. 



Eminaria nigropitncta, Beth.-Baker, A.M.N. H. (8) ii. p. 262 19 



A form with the black points of fore wing much reduced; vein 



10 shortly stalked with 7. 8, 9 on right side, from angle of cell on 



left side. 



Uganda, Acholi Co., Patiga, typef 9 in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



1731. Spilosoma lutsa. insert:— 

 ab. eboraci, Tugwell, Entom. xxvii. p. 205, fig. 2 (18 

 Fore win<* with black streaks on medial part of costa and inner 



margin. 



ab. fasciata, Tugwell, Entom. xxvii p. 205, fig. I I I 



Fore wing with curved black postmedial band. 



ab. intermedia, Standf. Eandb. Gr.-Sclun. p. 3 >'. 11, 12(18 



Fore and bind wings with streaks in the interspaces of terminal • 

 area. 



