SPILOSOMA. 391 



femora crimson above, the fore and mid tibiae fuscous, the hind 

 tibiae I with fuscous, the tarsi fuscous; abdomen orange 



with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface 

 ochreous with sublateral series of black points except on basal 

 i iits. Fore wing ochreous ; a black point at base; an ante- 

 medial oblique series of small elongate black spots from costa to 

 median nervure and spots on area above and below vein 1 ; a point 

 at in i per angle of cell with oblique spot from costa above it and a 

 point just beyond lower angle; traces of an oblique postmedial 

 line with black point below vein 4 just beyond lower angle of cell, 

 points above and below veins 3 and 2 and. spots above and below 

 vein I, the spot on inner margin slightly confluent with the ante- 

 medial spot; an oblique series of black points from costa near apex 

 above and below veins 8, 7, G and points near termen above and 

 below veins 5 and 4. Hind wing pale yellow; a black discoidal 

 spot and subterminal series of spots above and below veins 7, 5, 2 

 and on vein 1 ; cilia white. 



JIab. Singapore (Ridley), 1 $ type. Exp. oG millim. 



17G1 b. Spilosoma vandepolli. 



Diacrisia fuscitincta, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iii. p. 280, $ nee tf. 

 Diacrisia vandepolli, Roths. Not. Zool. xvii. p. 155, pi. 14. ff. 11, 34 



(1910). 



Head and thorax yellow-buff with black stripe on dorsum of 

 thorax; palpi and lower part of frons blackish; antennae With the 

 shaft whitish ; pectus and legs orange, the extremities of femora, 

 the tibiae and tarsi blackish ; abdomen orange with dorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing orange-yellow, the 

 terminal area broadly suffused with brown leaving the veins yellow ; 

 a curved antemedial series of black spots, the two spots below costa 

 elongate'; a black point at upper angle of cell; a postmedial series 

 of black spots, excurved and obsolescent from below costa to vein 4, 

 then oblique. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a black discoidal spot ; 

 a subterminal spot in discal fold, a small spot above vein 2 and 

 larger spot below it and spots near termen above and below vein 1. 

 Underside of fore wing with the postmedial series of spots almost 

 obsolete and with small spot beyond it below vein 2. 



l[<ih. Sinatra, Padang, 1 2 ; Java (Kirkpatrich), 1 <$ , 

 Batang Proepoe, Padang Bovenlanden, type t 6 vandepolli in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp., 6 38, ? 54 millim. 



Larva. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. slviii. p. 183. 



Four anterior segments orange, the others black; hairs long, 

 1 .lack and serrate with some white hairs among them. Food-plan I . 

 fern. 



*17G4 a. Spilosoma pellucida. 



Diacrisia pellucida, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 154 (1904). & xviii. pi. 3. 

 i. 32. 

 J. Head and thorax ochreous with a fulvous tinge; antennae 

 with the branches brown; abdomen pale yellow with a fulvous 



