SPILOSOMA. ; !/7 



*1737 a. Spilosoma ruficosta. 



Diacrisia ruficosta, Joicey, Trans, lint. Soc. 1916, p. 374, pi. 61. f. 2. 



tf . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the dorsum 

 of thorax with black stripe: antennae, sides o£ frons, and palpi 

 black; pectus with some orange belo^ the wings; Bore and mid 

 legs, the extremities of hind tibiae and the tarsi Mack ; abdomen 

 orange, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous white. lateral 

 series of black sunt-, excepl at base, and sublateral spots on three 

 medial segments. Fore winy ochreous white the costal edge 

 orange-rufous; an antemedial black spot on costa and indistinct 

 orange-rufous line excurved at median nervure and with small 

 black spot< on it above and below vein 1; slight orange-rufous 

 marks at angles of cell and a small black spot at upper angle; 

 postmedial line orange-rufous with black spots on it below costa 

 and vein 7. minute spots above and below veins I and 3 and above 

 2 and larger spots above and below vein 1. excurved below costa 

 and incurved below vein 1. black spot> beyond it below costa and 

 - S and 7; an oblique -vies of black spots from costa just 

 before apex to inner margin just beyond the postmedial line to 

 which it is approximated below vein 4. the spots between discal 

 and submedian folds fainter and fuscous; minute subterminal 

 black spots above and below veins 5 and 4 and above 3, and a spot 

 at tornus. Hind wing ochreous white, the inner area suffused with 

 orange; a black spot on upper discocellular. and subterminal spots 

 above and below veins •"> and 2 and above tornus. Underside of 

 fore winy with the costa. cell, and area below the cell and vein 2 

 orange, a black discoidal bar, the oblique series of spots forming a 

 maculate black band between discal and submedian folds; hind 

 wing with the costal area orange, narrowing to apex. 



llah. Dutch X. Guinea, Arfak Aits., Angi Lakes {Pratt), 

 type f 6 in Coll. Joicey. JExp. 60 millim. 



1737 b. Spilosoma biagi. (Plate LV111. tig. I'd.) 



Diacrisia biagi, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 190 (1908). 



Diai risia biagi form angiana, Joicey, Trans, -hint. Soc. 1916. p. 375, pi. 61. 



f. ::. 



J. Head and thorax greyish brown, the vertex of head and 

 dorsal part of teguhe rufous, the dorsum of thorax with broad 

 black fascia ; palpi and frons black ; antennae with the basal half 

 of -haft whitish; pectus and lei>'s black-brown with reddish yellow 

 horse-shoe mark on pectus in front : abdomen yellow with dorsal 

 of black spots and broad black lateral stripes except at 

 extremity. Fore wing yellow suffused with red-brown leaving the 

 veins yellow; two black points at base; a subbasal black point 

 below costa, two above median nervure and one above vein 1 ; four 

 antemedial elongate black spots from costa to below the cell with a 

 small spot beyond them above base of vein 2. and two obliquely 

 placed spots above inner margin : two wedge-shaped spots in end 



