394 LITnOSIADJE. 



the base ochreous yellow, the anal tuft and ventral surface orange- 

 yellow with sublateral series of black spots and ventral bands 

 except at extremity. Wings uniform pale ochreous yellow. 



Hab. Ckxtr. Madagascar, Nalamagaotna, 2500' (Pratt), 

 type f 6 in Coll. Kenrick. Exp. 50 millim. 



1768. Spilosoma costata, insert : — 



Diacrisia vivida, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 139 (1910). 



A large deeper buff form; fore wing with the veins more heavily 

 marked with black. 



Be. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 2 J , Babooni (Pratt), 1 2 

 Mafalu (Pratt), 2 § ; D'Entrecasteaux Is., Ferguson I. Exp. 

 6 54, 2 62 millim. 



1769 a. Spilosoma euryplilebia. (Plate LIX. fig. 18.) 



Diacrisia euryplilebia, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 351 (1903). 



cS . Head and thorax yellowish white ; palpi, a patch on frons, 

 teguke, patagia, and dorsal stripe on thorax black; pectus and 

 stripes on legs black : mid and hind femora orange above ; abdomen 

 orange with dorsal black bands, lateral stripes and ventral series of 

 spots. Fore wing yellowish white ; the veins rather broadly striped 

 with black especialby the medial part of vein 1 ; narrow stripes in 

 cell and submedian fold ; cilia yellow. Hind wing orange-vellow. 



Hab. Zulu land (Crosly), 1 J, Lr. Tugela, 1 S type." Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1770. Spilosoma lutescens, insert : — 



Spilosoma afjhris, Bartel, Iris, xvi. p. 185 (1903). 



Fore wing pale yellowish with the streaks faint; hind wing 

 sernihyaline yellowish white. 



Sierra Leo.ve (Morgan), 1 6 ; Gold Coast, Kumasi (White- 

 side), 2 <$ ; '-Germ. E. Africa," Uhehe, cotype f 6 in Mus. 

 Berlin. 



1770 a. Spilosoma penicillata. (Plate LX. fig. 1.) 

 Binna penicillata, Wlk. xxxi. p. 319 (1864). 



Is a distinct species; the ground-colour of both "wings orange- 

 buff ; fore wing with the fuscous streaks in the interspaces typically 

 well develop* 1. often more or less reduced or almost obsolete. 



BRA LE( cro^t, liarlleil, 1 J type, Port Lokko 



( Penny), 2 J; S. Nigeria, Yuba (Simpson), 1 $. Exp., <$ 36, 

 , is millim. 



1770 b. Spilosoma occidens. (Plate LX. fig. 2.) 

 Diacrisia occidens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 13S (1910). 



cS . Head and thorax ochreous, the vertex of head, teguhe, and 

 patagia with greenish grey patches, the back of head and tips 



