378 LITHOSIADi. 



of cell; two postinedial series of spots, the inner series bent in- 

 wards to costa and with the spits above and below vein 12 minute, 

 the outer series with the spots small except towards costa and inner 

 margin; a subterminal series of minute spots on each side of the 

 veins except vein 2, bent outwards at vein 5 ; all the <j»>ts edged 

 with yellow. Hind wing brownish yellow ; a large black discoidal 

 spot ; postinedial spots between veins 5 and 2 and below 1 and some 

 points towards costa: a subterminal series of spots with minute 

 streaks beyond it from costa to vein 3. 



ab. 1. angiana. Both wings with the black sputs reduced. 



Rah. Dutch X. Guinea, Arfak Tits.. Ninay Valley {Pratt). 

 1 cS , Angi Lakes (Pratt), 1 3 , type t 6 angiana in Coll. Joieey : 

 Bk. X. Guinea, Biagi, Mambare {Meek), 2 J. Exp. 50 millim. 

 Type f in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



*1737 c. Spilosoma nigricornis. (Plate LXX. tig. 13.) 



Diacritia nigricorna, Joieey & Talbot. A. M. X. H. (8) xvii. p. Si (1916). 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous yellow, the latter with a large 

 black dorsal patch ; antenna', frons, palpi, pectus, and legs black, 

 the fore coxae with tuft of yellow hair, the hind tibiae fringed with 

 yellow hair above towards base; abdomen orange with dorsal black 

 streak, the ventral surface white with lateral and sublateral macu- 

 late black stripes, the latter not reaching the extremity. Fore 

 wing ochreous yellow tinged with pale brown : the costal edge 

 black towards base; small black basal spots below costa and at 

 vein 1 ; minute obliquely placed antemedial black spots below the 

 cell and above vein 1; two almost conjoined black spots in angles 

 of cell, a point beyond lower angle and on one side a point beyond 

 upper alible : two oblique postinedial series of black spots, the 

 inner series commencing with a small spot below vein 6, triangular 

 -put- below veins 5 and 4, a spot below win 3. and spots above and 

 below veins 2 and 1, the outer series with spots above and below 

 vein 7, above 6, above and below veins •">, 4, 3, conjoined in 

 the interspaces and above and below veins 2 and 1: a small sub- 

 terminal spot below apex and spots above and below veins 7 to 8 ; 

 slight terminal points above and below vein -3 and a minute spot 

 above vein 1. Hind wing ochreous yellow ; a large black discoidal 

 spot and small subterminal spots above and below veins .">, 2. I. 

 Underside of fore wing with discoidal lunulate black spot conjoined 

 to a spot beyond the cell, the postinedial and subterminal spots as 

 on upper side. 



Rali. Dutch X. Guinea, Wandammen Bits. ( 'Pratt i, typef 6 

 in Coll. Joieey. Exp. 50 millim. This may be an aberration id' 

 8. biagi. 



L739. Spilosoma scioana. insert : 

 -iib-jL mtensa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. L30, pi. 14. f. 21 (1910). 

 j. Fore wing with the spots reduced. 



