spilosoma. :}s:} 



*1747 a. Spilosoma ypsilon. 

 ]fsenas ypsilon, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 117. pi. 14. f. 39 (191H). 



$ . Head anil thorax ochreous white, the tegulse crimson at tips; 

 palpi black, crimson at base; sides of frons black; antenna' brown; 

 pectus crimson in front ; the fore tibia' and the tarsi brown ; abdo- 

 men yellow with someochreous white hair at base and the ventral 

 surface white, dorsal and sublateral series of small black spots. 

 Fore wing ochreous white; the costa blackish to the oblique ante- 

 medial series of four small brown spots ; an oblique series of three 

 elongate brown spots from middle of costa to median nervure at 

 end of cell where it joins the postmedial maculate brown band 

 which is excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the spots elongate 

 towards inner margin where it touches the antemedial series. Hind 

 wing white. 



Sab. Pknam;; W. Java, Mods Gede (Fruhstorfer), type f 

 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



* 1 717 b. Spilosoma burmanica. 



Biacrisia burmanica, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 121, pi. 14. f. 41 (1910). 



d ■ Head and thorax ochreous white, the tegulae crimson ; palpi, 

 sides of frons, and antennae black ; pectus crimson in front; tibia' 

 ami tarsi blackish : abdomen pale crimson, the ventral surface 

 white, dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black points. Fore 

 wing -white, the costa and inner margin tinged with ochreous ; a 

 short subbasal black streak on costa; antemedial and postmedial 

 maculate fuscous bands, the former slightly curved, the latter bent 

 inwards to costa and incurved below vein 4, black points beyond it 

 above and below veins 5 and 1. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 inner area slightly tinged with yellow ; a small subterminal blackish 

 spot below vein 2. 



Hob. Burma, type f S in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 38 millim. 



*1747 c. Spilosoma gianellii. 



Biacrisia gianellii, Obertli. Et. Lep. Comp. v. i. p. 336. pi. lxxxii. f. 774 

 (1911) ; Seitz, Gr.-Srhin. pal. ii. p. 446, pi 56 i. 



$. Head and thorax pale flesh red; antennse black: abdomen 

 scarlet with dorsal series of black bars and lateral series of spots. 

 Fore wing pale flesh red slightly irrorated with fuscous ; an ante- 

 medial black band, excurved from below costa to above inner margin 

 where it expands into rather elongate spots; a medial maculate 

 black band, excurved to just beyond end of cell, then incurved ; 

 minute subterminal black streaks above and below veins 8 to >'!. 

 Hind wing pale red with black discoidal spot and minute sub- 

 terminal spots at discal fold and below vein 2. 



flab. W. CHINA, Tse-kou. F.rp. IS millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



