102 EITHOSIADJ3. 



except at extremity ; pectus and legs black-brown with sonic 

 crimson below, the shoulders and on f ore cox;e ; ventral surface of 

 abdomen ochreous white with lateral and sublateral series of small 

 black spots and subventral black fasciae on basal half connected 

 by segmental lines. Fore wing whitish suffused with ochreous, the 

 costa black towards base; a small black spot at base of cell, sub- 

 basal splits in the cell and on vein 1, the latter emitting a short 

 streak ; an antemedial black band from costa to vein 1 formed by a 

 s1 reak on costa then by spots, interrupted by the pale veins and with 

 a point below it above inner margin, its outer edge angled outwards 

 just below the cell, a minute black spot in upper angle of cell, an 

 oblique postmedial series of spots broken up by the pale veins, on 

 costal area, at lower angle of cell, on vein 2 and at inner margin ; a 

 subterminal series of small double spots at the veins except at 

 vein 2, with a maculate band before it from costa to vein 4, followed 

 by some black points. Hind wing scarlet; a black discoidal spot 

 and a subterminal maculate band from costa to above tornus ; the 

 spot above vein 3 slight. Underside of fore wing crimson except 

 the terminal area. 



Hub. D'Entbecaste.v.ux Is., Goodenough I. (Meek), type t 6 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 60 millim. 



1789 c. Spilosoma cebeae. 



Diacrisia Ubex, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 413, pi. 4. f. 24 (1904). 



6 ■ Head and thorax ochreous suffused with red-brown, the 

 vertex of head paler, the patagia with black patches, the thorax 

 with black dorsal stripe; palpi, sides of head, and antennae black- 

 brown ; pectus and legs deep red-brown, the fore coxae at sides and 

 femora above crimson ; abdomen crimson with dorsal maculate 

 stripe and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface buff with sub- 

 lateral blackish spots except towards extremity. Fore wing buff 

 mottled with red-brown ; a black point at base ; the antemedial area 

 with large oblique quadrate red-brown patch with slight black 

 streaks on it; antemedial line double, black Idled in with buff, 

 angled outwards on median nervure, the inner line rather irregular ; 

 medial area deep red-brown with patches of buff on costa and above 

 inner margin defined by black and a black patch below end of 

 cell, bounded by the black postmedial line which is oblique and 

 slightly sinuous to vein 4, then inwardly oblique and slightly 

 excurved below submedian fold; a subterminal red-brown band 

 with blackish points on its edges, expanding towards costa, narrow 

 at middle, and obliquely incurved below vein 1, met at vein (5 by an 

 oblique series of small black spots from apex; subterminal black 

 points on each side of veins 5, I, and above .'! ; the cilia with small 

 black spots above and below vein 5. Hind wine- crimson, the inner 

 margin and termen paler; a Large oblique black discoidal lunule 

 and subterminal spots above veins 6, 5, I. above and below vein 2, 

 and on termen at vein I. Underside pale brownish; fore wing 



