384 LITHOSIAD^E. 



L748«. Spilosoma obliquizonata. (Plate LIX. fig. 2.) 

 Diacrisia obliquizonata, Miyake, Journ. Coll. Agric. Tokio, ii. p. 209 



(1910). 

 Spilarctia obliquefasciata, Mats. Thousand Ins. Jap., Suppl. iii. p. 72. 



pi. xxxv. f. 27 (1911). 



c? . Head and thorax creamy white ; antenna' black; sides of 

 Irons and palpi black, the latter with crimson spot on basal joint ; 

 stripes below shoulders and pectus in front black-brown, some 

 crimson below the wings; fore legs black, the coxae at sides and 

 femora above crimson, the mid and hind femora crimson above, the 

 mid tibiae above, the hind tibiae above except towards extremities. 

 and the tarsi black; abdomen pale crimson, the base and ventral 

 surface creamy white, dorsal, lateral, and sublatcral series of small 

 black spots. Fore wing creamy white ; a black fascia on costa to 

 near middle; a small antemedial black spot below the costa and a 

 spot above vein 1 ; a black fascia on medial part of inner margin 

 joining an oblique maculate band from the apex interrupted by 

 creamy white streaks on the veins; an elongate postmedial black 

 spot on costa; a minute subterminal black spot below vein 5. 

 Hind wing creamy white; a small blackish spot on upper disco- 

 cellular; small subterminal spots above and below vein 5 and above 

 vein 2 and a large spot below vein 2. Underside of fore wing with 

 the retinaculum black and a small black discoidal spot. 



Hah. Japan (JSTiwa), 1 6, Tokio, in Coll. Wileman. Exp. 

 50 millim. 



Larva. Young: head black; body fulvous; tubercles black; 

 hairs rather short, white mixed with black. Adult: head black; 

 body blackish, thoracic somites with black hairs; 1st three abdo- 

 minal somites with fulvous hairs, the remaining somites laterally 

 with fulvous hairs, dorsally and ventrally with black hairs; the 

 thoracic and anal somites with some long white hairs; tubercles 

 purplish black. Food-plant, mulberry. 



*1 7 is h. Spilosoma quercii. 

 Estigmene quercii, Oberth. Y.t. Lep. Comp. v. i. p. 336. pi. lxxxii. f. 77:1 

 (1911). 



5 . Head and (borax ochrcous, the dorsum of thorax with broad 

 black stripe, antennae black ; abdomen scarlet with dorsal series of 

 diffused black bars and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface 

 ochrcous. Fore wing ochreous; a black point at base of cell and 

 black fascia on costa to before middle with streak below its 

 extremity; a minute spot at middle of costa and point at upper 

 angle of cell; a black Bascia on inner margin from near base to 

 near fcornus, with elongate black antemedial mark above it. its 

 outer edge conjoined to an oblique maculate band from apes ; 

 minute subterminal streaks above and below veins 5 and 1 and 

 above 3; the cilia with -erics of small black spots. Hind wing 

 pale ochreous; black spots in cell and on discocellulars ; a small 

 subterminal spot in discal fold and spots above and below vein 1 ; 

 cilia black at apex; the underside with antemedial black spot on costa. 



Rab. W. China, Siao-lu. Exp. 66 millim. Tins species is 

 unknown to me. 



