100 LTTUOSIAD.T.. 



with black towards base ; some crimson hair below base of wings : 

 fore coxa; and the femora above crimson ; abdomen crimson with 

 some brown hair at base of dorsum followed by a series of small 

 spots and a band on anal segment, lateral series of black spots, the 

 ventral surface red-brown. Fore wing greyish tinged and irrorated 

 with red-brown ; the costal edge dark brown, some brown suffusion 

 at base ; a rather diffused dark brown antemedial line, forming a 

 spot at costa, strongly excurved at median nervure, then incurved ; 

 a diffused dark brown discoidal lunule connected with a patch on 

 costa forming part of the rather diffused postmedial line, which is 

 somewhat excurved beyond the cell, then incurved and connected 

 with the discoidal lunule ; a faint diffused curved subterminal line 

 forming a spot at costa ; a slight maculate brown line before termen. 

 Hind wing pale crimson; a large rather diffused dark brown 

 discoidal lunule with faint spots below it at vein 2 and submedian 

 fold; a rather maculate dark brown subterminal band from costa 

 just before apex to termen at vein 1; cilia whitish. Underside of 

 fore wing with the postmedial and subterminal bands broader and 

 more diffused, ending at submedian fold. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Mt. Goliath (Meek), Is, type t 6 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 44 millim. 



*1789 i. Spilosoina fraterna. 



Diacris ; a fraterna, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 145 (1910), & xviii. pi. 1 

 f. 18. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with fulvous; palpi and 

 sides of irons black ; a large black patch ou prothorax with streak 

 from it to metathorax ; pectus black ; femora crimson fringed with 

 ochreous hair, the tibia 1 and tarsi black; abdomen pale crimson 

 with a blackish dorsal streak on medial segments, the ventral surface 

 ochreous, lateral and sublateral black points on medial segments. 

 Fore wing brownish ochreous ; minute antemedial black spots on 

 costa. below median nervure, and above vein 1 ; four black points 

 at lower angle of cell ; a postmedial sei'ies of black points on each 

 side of the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a subterminal 

 series of black points on each side of the veins from costa to vein •'$. 

 slightly excurved at vein .">. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow ; a 

 black discoidal lunule; subterminal black points on each side of 

 vein 5 with traces of a series of points below it bent outwards to 

 termen below vein L; the underside with the costal area fulvous 

 yellow, a slight postmedial black mark on costa. 



Hub. Be. X. Gi im:\, Mambare I!., Biagi (Meek), type t S in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. Is millim. 



*17M)/. Spilosoma cymbalophoroides. 



h i Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 134(1910). & wiii. 



pi. 1. ff. 2 I, 25. 



S. Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi and lower pari of 

 frons black-brown; antenna' black: teguhe with large black spots, 



