376 I.1LHOSIAD30. 



ab. unicolor, Homberg, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1907, p. 71. 

 2 ■ Fore wing with black point at base of costa only ; bind wing 

 without markings. 



ab. totinigra, Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii.p. 85, pi. 15 a (1910). 



Similar to ab. zatima, but fore wing' with the buff markings 

 further reduced. 



ab. fascial a. Dufrane, Rev. Soc. Ent. Namur, 1907. p. 50. 



ab. paupera, Hft'm. Int. Ent. Zeit. v. p. 227 (,1911). 



Typical except that the hind wing has no black point on upper 

 side. 



Spilosoma rliodosoma, Turati, Nat. Sicil. xx. p. 38, pL ill. ft'. 10-13, & v. 

 ff. 16, 17 (1907) ; Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 85, pi. 15 b. 



A form with the 1st joint of palpi, a slight line behind the eyes, 

 the pectus at sides, the fore coxae and femora, and the abdomen 

 above crimson. Fore wing with antemedial black spot on costa 

 produced as a black streak on costal edge to base and series of small 

 spots angled outwards on median nervure : a black point at upper 

 angle of cell; a postmedial black spot on costa with obsolescent 

 band from it excurved to vein 5, then oblique with slight black 

 points on it between veins o and 2 and two spots above inner 

 margin, met at vein 6 by an oblique series of points from apex : an 

 oblique subterminal series of points between veins o and 3. Hind 

 wing with black spot at upper angle of cell and subterminal spot on 

 vein 2. Underside with slight crimson suffusion at base ; fore 

 wing with black streak on base of costa, oblique discoidal lunule, 

 postmedial spot above vein 6, and oblique maculate band from above 

 5 to vein 2. where it i> met by a streak below vein 2 from before 

 middle. 



Hah. Sicily, cotypef J in Coll. Piingeler, Busambra, 1 J. 



Subsp. japonica, Koths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 131 (1910). 



Similar but paler yellow ; fore wing with the antemedial black 

 spot (in costa, the point at upper angle of cell, the oblique series id' 

 points from apex, and the obsolescent band with two black spots 

 above inner margin; the underside without the black streak below 

 vein 2. 



Hal>. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Kasakewitsch in Coll. Piingeler; 

 Japan, Yokohama, type t o in Coll. Rothschild. 



1736. Spilosoma fuscitincta. 



Larva. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. xlviii.p. L83. 



Black, the four anterior somites brighl orange; thickly clothed 

 with long black hair mixed with a lew white hairs. 



1737. Spilosoma mona, insert : — 



,.'. Hmpsn. III. Het. B.M. viii. p. •">-■>. pi. 140. f. lil (1891 l, 



which is the male of it. 



Nilgiris, Travancore, Pirm id. 



