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*1788a. Spilosoma solitaria. (Plate LX. fig. 14.) 



Ditin-isid solitaria, Wileman, Entom. xliii. p. 245 (1010). 



£. Head and thorax pale brown-buff; the tips of tegulae and 

 the shoulders with yellow spots, the dorsum of thorax with black 

 streak; palpi yellow at base, black at tips; sides of t'rons and 

 antenna' black; fore coxae yellow with black patches; legs black- 

 brown ; abdomen yellow with dorsal black spot on 2nd segment 

 followed by a series of bands except on terminal segment, lateral 

 spots on 2nd and 3rd segments and suhlateral spots on medial 

 segments. Fore wing brown-buff ; a black spot at base of cell ; 

 antemedial spots on costa and above and below vein 1, spots in angles 

 of cell with a spot above them on costa and slight spot beyond the 

 discocellulars, and an oblique postmedial series of spots from above 

 vein 2 to inner margin, the spots above and vein 2 minute. Hind 

 wing brown-buff tinged with fuscous; a black discoidal spot and 

 terminal series of rather diffused spots in the interspaces. Under- 

 side of fore wing suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Formosa, Kanshirei {Wileman), type f $ in Coll. 

 Wileman. Exp. 56 millim. 



1789 a. Spilosoma pratti. 

 Diacrisia pratti, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 412, pi. 4. f. 23 (1904). 



cf . Head black, the vertex brown-buff; thorax brown-buff with 

 a large black patch on dorsum ; pectus and legs black-brown ; 

 abdomen crimson with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the 

 ventral surface black, brown-buff at extremity. Fore wing brown- 

 buff thickly mottled with red-brown ; three black spots at base, an 

 oblique antemedial series of three black spots from costa to vein 1 ; 

 black points in the angles of cell ; a small postmedial spot on costa, 

 two beyond lower angle of cell and larger spots above and below 

 vein 1 on traces of a red-brown band ; black' points towards apex 

 above and below vein 7 and above 6 ; a subterminal series of points 

 on each side of the veins. Hind wing orange-buff, the inner area 

 suffused with crimson ; a large black discoidal lunule and post- 

 medial series of spots. Underside of fore wing with the cell and 

 area below it suffused with crimson. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei {Pratt), 2 <$ , Mt. Kebea, 0000' 

 {Pratt), 5 6 , type f 6 in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exp. 58 millim. 



*1789 5. Spilosoma eichhorni. (Plate LXVI. fig. 17.) 



Diacrisia eichhorni, Koths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 483 (1017). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous-white, the dorsum of thorax, 

 patches on shoulders, frons and palpi velvety black-brown, some 

 crimson at base of palpi and behind the eves, the antennae black- 

 brown ; abdomen crimson with dorsal series of small black spots 



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