380 UTHnsIAD/K. 



1742 b. Spilosoma venosa. 



Carbisa venosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 41. pi. 2. f. 10 (1870); Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 13. 

 Diacrisia pseudomsenas, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 131 (1910). & xviii. 



pi. 4. f. 9. 



cS . Head white tinged with yellow ; palpi fuscous bowards tips ; 

 antennae, black, the shaft white above; thorax fulvous yellow; legs 

 whitish, the fore coxae, femora, and tibiae streaked with black in 

 front, the mid and hind femora with black spot at extremity ; 

 abdomen fulvous yellow with blackish hands, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing huff, the interspaces pale fuscous brown 

 except at termen : a small blackish subbasal spot above inner 

 margin. Hind wing pale buff; four small brownish subterminal 

 spots between apex and vein 1- and two towards tornus. 



2 ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen whiter, the last with the bands 

 blacker and with large orange-yellow anal tuft. 



Hab. Si k icim: Assam, Snillong (Parish), 10 S , 1 ?• Eccp., 

 6 36, <5 44 millim. 



Larva. Blackish, hairy; forms a social web in leaf of Brassai- 

 opsis specwsa (Araliaceee) spun up round the web and pupates in 

 the nest, which is much affected by a small red ant ; the larvae are 

 nocturnal feeders, their hairs being poisonous ( //. Jl. Parish). 



1712 ,-. Spilosoma neurica. (Plate LVIII. fig. 21.) 



Msenas venosa, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iii. p. 251 (nee Moore). 

 Via risia if urica, Roths. A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 408 (1911). 



*1712 (/. Spilosoma nigrescens. I Plate LV11I. fig. 22. ) 

 Diacrisia eximia. nigrescens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 113 (1910). 



c? . Head and tegulae crimson, the latter with pair of fuscous 

 dorsal spots; palpi black at tips: antennae black: thorax black- 

 brown : pectus and fore coxae crimson ; legs blackish streaked with 

 crimson ; abdomen crimson with dorsal and lateral series of black 

 spots. Fore wing black-brown with slight antemedial crimson 

 streaks in cell and suhmedian fold and minute streaks at angles of 

 cell. Hind wing black-brown with a slight crimson patch at base; 

 the underside with slight ochreous mark on costa at middle. 



Ih'l.. Sikkim; Assam, Khasis. type c? in Coll. Rothschild. 

 llx/i. 26 millim. 



i 7 13 a. Spilosoma everetti. 



Diaxrisi i Roths. Nov. Zool, xvii. p. L32 (1910), & xviii. pi. 4. 



f. 27. 



S- Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow; palpi black 

 above; antenna' black; legs streaked with black. Pore wing 

 orange-yellow; two small obliquely placed medial fuscous spots 



