392 LiTnosiAD^:. 



tinge. Fore wing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas brownish 

 ochreous ; a small round black discoidal spot. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins, costal and inner areas, and the termen ochreous. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Warsaw Distr. Sekondi, typef J in Coll. 

 "Rothschild. Exp. 3S millim. 



1705 «. Spilosoma holoxantha. (Plate LIX. fig. 13.) 



Diacrisia holoxantha, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xix. p. 236 (1907). 



$ . Head and thorax brownish orange ; palpi black at tips ; fore 

 and mid tibiae black, hind tibia? black at base and extremity, the 

 tarsi black; abdomen bright orange with dorsal, lateral, and sub- 

 lateral series of black points. Fore wing uniform brownish orange. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow. Underside of both wings with blackish 

 discoidal points and terminal points above and below vein 5. 



Hub. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Sampson), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 •1 1 millim. 



1700. Spilosoma lucida, insert (syn.) : — 



Spilosoma steudeU, Bartel, Iris, xvi. p. 184 (1903) ; Griinb. Berl. Ent. 

 Zeit. Hi. p. 67 (1907). 



1700 r/. Spilosoma pulverea. (Plate LIX. fig. 14.) 

 Diacrisia pulverea, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 447 (1905). 



9 • Head and thorax orange-yellow, palpi, frons, antennae, tibia?, 

 and tarsi fuscous black; abdomen orange, dorsal and lateral series 

 of black spots on 1st and terminal segments. Fore wing orange- 

 yellow finely powdered with brown scales. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow. 



Hah. Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 2 2 type. Exp. 38 I'J 

 millim. 



1 707. Spilosoma flava, insert (syn.) : — 

 Diacrisia oriens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 482 (1917). 



S.W. Africa, Tsumei, typef d , $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



Larva. Pawcett, Trans. Zool. Soc. xv. p. 316, pi. xlix. f. 8 (1900). 



Pale fuscous; dorsal area red-brown; a dorsal series of while 

 spots defined by black; tubercles black with tufts of black and 

 reddish hair; head, legs, and claspers Ferruginous. Food-plants: 

 Omithogalum eekloni, TAlium, etc. L2. 



1767a. Spilosoma sulphurea. (Plate LIX. fig. 15.) 

 Bartel, Iris, xvi. p. 189 (1903). 



d. Head and thorax- bright yellow; antenna' brownish, the 

 shaft whitish above; palpi at sides, tibiae and tarsi brown, the 

 femora orange above; abdomen orange, yellow at base, 3rd 5th 

 segments with dorsal black spots, a lateral series of black spots, 



