spilosoma. 397 



yellowish, the interspaces without streaks; hind wing semihyaline 

 white, the inner area tinged with yellow. 



II, 'h. Sn:i;i;\ Leone (Foxcrqft), 1 6 type, \\. Mano, Gongo 

 (Fearse), 1 J; S. Nigebia, Lokoja {Christy), 1 6- Exp. 



38 niillim. 



1771 <7. Spilosoma leighi. (Plate LX. fig. 8.) 

 D risia It ighi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 141 (1910). 



$. Head and thorax orange; antenna? black except at base; 

 fore and mid legs tinged with fuscous ; abdomen orange with dorsal 

 and lateral series of black spots. Fore wing orange. Hind wing 

 orange-black from before middle to near termen except at costa 

 and inner margins, the inner and outer edges of the black area 

 irregular; the underside uniform orange. 



ah. 1. Hind wing with the black reduced to some suffusion 

 below postmedial part of costa and diffused streaks on terminal 

 part of median nervure and along veins 4 to 1 to near termen. — - 

 Cape Colony. 



Kab. Xatal, Durban {Leigh), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild; 

 Cape Colon r, Transkei {Miss F Bam tt), 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



1776. Spilosoma purpurata, insert : — 



ah. immaculata, Fuchs, Jalirb. Nass. Yer. li. p. 206 (1898). 

 Fore wing with the spots more reduced. 



ah. trafisiens, Spider. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 131 (190G). 

 Hind wing with the terminal area yellow. 



ab.flavescens, Spiiler, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 131 (1906). 

 Hind wing pale yellow. 



ah. uralensis, Spiiler. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 131 (1906). 

 ah. infuscala, Spiiler, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 131 (1906). 

 Fore wing tinged with brown. 



var. barteli, KruL Mater, faun. nor. Boss. is. p. 171 (1909). 

 ah. atromaculata, Galv. ? ined. ; Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 93 (1910). 

 Fore wing with the spots sharply defined ; hind wing with the 

 spots large and confluent. 



ah. berolensis, Fuchs. r ined. ; Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 93 (1910). 

 Fore wing with the spots slightly reduced. 



ah. obscura, Oberth. Et. Ent. xx. pi. xviii. f. 293 ; id. Et. Lep. Comp. v. i. 

 p. 106 (1911), & vi. p. 323, pi. cxvi. f. Iu29. 



177S. Spilosoma metalcana, insert: — 



ah. vullierata, Illbrich, Eovart, Lap. xx. p. 116, figs. (1913). 

 Larva. Cerva, Zeit. \Yissens. Ins. i. p. 294 (1905). 



Yellow clothed with dark hair. Food-plants : Euphorbia 

 palustris, Galtha palustris, Iris pseudacorus, Nympheea alba. 



