300 LITHOSIADJE. 



small black discoidal spot; cilia buff. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused with crimson ; bind wing buff slightly tinged with crimson, 

 a subterminal blackish spot below vein 2. 



Hob. Formosa, Kanshirei (Wileman), 1 J, type f 6 in Coll. 

 Wileman. Exp. 46 millim. 



1756. Spilosoma obliqua, insert (syn.) : — 

 Diacrisia assamensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 136 (1910), Q nee J. 



Abdomen orange; fore wing without black streak. 

 Assam, Khasis. 



Diacrisia subtestacea, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 137 (1910). 

 Formosa, Fansako, typef J in Coll. Rothschild = ab. dalbergice 

 and del. Spilarctia bifascia. 



1759. Spilosoma multiguttata, insert : — 



Diacrisia pallidior, Roths. Nov. Zool. svii. p. 138 (1910). 



A large form with heavily spotted fore wing from Bhutan and 

 Sikhim, type t <S in Coll. Rothschild. 



Diacrisia m ijor, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 138 (1910), & xviii. pi. 4. f. 27. 



Similar to pallidior but with the head and tegulse orange, a lanj-e 

 black patch on anal segment of abdomen ; bind wing bright orange. 

 Assam, Khasis^Silhet, type f d in Coll. Rothschild. 



*1760«. Spilosoma inconspicua. (PlateLlX.fig.il.) 



Diacrisia inconspicua, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 131 (1910). 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous white the tegulse and patagia 

 with black points; palpi black at sides except at base; antennae 

 blackish except basal joint; (fore legs wanting); mid tibiae and 

 tarsi tinged with fuscous; abdomen orange-yellow with dorsal 

 scries of small black spots except at base and extremity and lateral 

 spots on two medial segments. Fore wing ochreous white; an 

 oblique subbasa] black striga from costa and antemedial point below 

 median nervure; medial black points on costa, below subcostal 

 nervure, and above and below vein ] ; Eour black points at lower 

 angle of cell; a curved postmedial series of black points on each 

 lie veins from costa to vein :!. Hind wing yellow with 

 small black discoidal spot. 



Hab. "Germ. K. Africa," Kilwa (Reimer), type f 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild; Br. C. Africa, Zomba; Angola, Canhoca. Exp. 

 '■){) millim. 



L761 a. Spilosoma hypogopa. ( Plate LIX. tig. 12.) 

 D (i , If. X. II. i 7' six. p. L.':::. (1907). 



£. Head and thorax pale ochreous, the vertex of thorax with 

 black palpi black, the 1st joint orange; irons black; 



