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LITII0SIADJ3. 



1755 g. Spilosoma venata. (Plate LIX. fig. 0.) 



Diacrisia ve)iata, Wileman, Entom. xlviii. p. 110 (1915). 



Diacrisia venata, ab. bipuncta, Wileman, Entom. xlviii. p. Ill (1915). 



6 . Head and thorax white ; frons with "black spot at sides ; 

 palpi crimson, the 3rd joint black ; antenna? black ; neck with 

 crimson ring; tegtdse and patagia edged with crimson, the thorax 

 with crimson dorsal stripe ; pectus crimson ; legs fuscous, the 

 femora with some whitish hair ; abdomen crimson with small 

 dorsal black spots on four median segments, the ventral surface 

 white with lateral series of black spots and sublateral spots on four 

 medial segments. Pore wing buff suffused with scarlet, the veins 

 and streaks in the cell and submedian fold buff; a small ante- 

 medial black spot just below costa and spots above and below 

 vein 1 ; a small postmedial black spot just below costa and an 

 incurved series from vein 3 to ahove inner margin, the mark above 

 vein 2 linear. Hind wing yellow buff, the termen rather deej er 

 yellow, the inner area tinged with crimson ; a small fuscous spot 

 on upper discocellular. Underside of fore wing crimson scarlet ; 

 hind wing with the costal and inner areas suffused with crimson, a 

 black spot on upper discocellular. 



ab. 1. bipuncta. Fore wing with the black reduced to post- 

 medial points above and below vein 1 ; hind wing without discoidal 

 spot. 



Hob. Philippines, Luzon, Benguet Prov., Bagnio (Bal-rr), 

 1 6 , Pauai (Wileman), type d t and type 6 ^bipuncta in Coll. 

 Wileman. Exp. 54-58 millim. 



*1755 //. Spilosoma vhiteheadi. (Plate LIX. fig. 7.) 



Diacrisia trli iteheadi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 151 (1910). 



cS . Head and thorax creamy white, the tegula? and patagia 

 edged with scarlet, the dorsum of thorax with pale scarlet streak, 

 the patagia with black spots near base; palpi scarlet, the 3rd joint 

 black; frons with lateral black spots; antenna? black except at 

 base; pectus in front and femora above scarlet; fore tibiae and 

 tarsi streaked with black, the extremities of mid and hind femora 

 and base of tibia? black; abdomen scarlet, the ventral surface 

 ochreous white, a lateral series of black spots and dorsal and sub- 

 lateral points on two medial segments. Fore wing buff, the basal 

 half of costal area white; a minute antemedial black point above 

 vein 1 and small postmedial spots above and below vein 1. Hind 

 wing pale buff, the costal and inner areas yellower and the latter 

 faintly tinged with crimson. Underside of fore wing and the 

 costal area of hind wing tinged with scarlet. 



Hah. Philippines, Luzon (Whitehead), type f J in Coll. 

 Rothschild. A'.<y<. 58 millim. 



*1755 i. Spilosoma postrubida. (Plate LIX. fig. 8.) 

 Aloa "postrubida, Wileman, Entom. xliii. p. 246 (1910). 

 $. Head and thorax huff, the prothorax with round black spot, 



