SPTLOSOMA. 403 



with some crimson suffusion on disk, the patches smaller and black ; 

 hind wing with obliquely curved black mark from costa beyond 

 middle 



Rah. 15k. X. Guinea, Foula {Pratt), I J, Avola {Pratt), 1 <?, 

 Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 4 J, type t 6 in Coll. B.-Baker. Exp. 56- 

 (i 1 niillini. 



*1789d. Spilosoma ochrifrons. 



Di<irrisi,i ochrifrons, Joicey & Talbot, A. M. N. H. (8) xx. p. 50, pi. i. 

 f. 2 (1907). 



d . Head ochreous white tinged with rufous, the sides of frons 

 black-brown; antennae and palpi black-brown; thorax ochreous 

 suffused with red-brown, a black-brown stripe on dorsum, the 

 patagia with a black-brown patch at base with a scarlet point in 

 front of it; abdomen scarlet with a black-brown dorsal stripe 

 expanding laterally on the segments except towards base; pectus 

 and legs black-brown, the fore femora in front and patches below 

 base of fore wing scarlet ; ventral surface of abdomen ochreous with 

 lateral and sublateral series of black-brown spots. Fore wing 

 ochreous white suffused with rufous leaving the base, patches on 

 costa between the bands, and the terminal area whiter; a small 

 black-brown spot at base; a quadrate subbasal black-brown patch 

 from costa to below the cell ; an oblique medial band from costa to 

 below the cell; a postmedial band from costa to below end of cell 

 expanding into a discoidal patch and with an oblique narrower macu- 

 late band from it to inner margin; a subterminal hand expanding 

 on outer side at costa and with its outer edge angled outwards al 

 discal fold, then reduced to small spots on veins 3, 2, 1, some points 

 beyond it at veins -3 to 3 ; a terminal series of small black-brown 

 splits between veins 7 and 2. Hind wing pale scarlet; a black- 

 brown striga on upper discocellular and bilid subterminal spots at 

 veins 5, 2, 1. Underside flesh-colour; fore wing with the basal 

 half suffused with scarlet, the bands reduced to spots on the costa 

 and disk ; hind wing with small spot on costa above end of cell. 



I lab. Dutch N. Guinea, Wandammen Mts. {Pratt), type t 6 

 in Coll. Joicey, Arfak Mts. Exp. 6*1 millim. 



1789 e. Spilosoma dinava. 



Diacrisia dinawa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 413, pi. 4. f. 25 (1904). 



1 lead black, the vertex buff ; thorax red-brown with some crimson 

 below the teguhe and black spots on shoulders; pectus and legs 

 black-brown, the fore coxae and base of femora above crimson ; 

 abdomen crimson above with dorsal series of black spots and larger 

 patch before extremity, a lateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface brown. Fore wing ochreous brown almost entirely suffused 

 with red-brown leaving the costal area and veins somewhat paler; an 

 antemedial black-brown patch from costa to vein 1, angled outwards 



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