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the patagia with wedge-shaped black patches, the thorax with 

 dorsal Mack streak dilated into a large patch on metathorax ; pectus 

 crimson with black-brown patches; Legs crimson and black-brown; 

 abdomen crimson, the ventral surface yellowish tinged with crimson, 

 dorsal, lateral, and snMateral series of black spots. Fore wing 

 creamy white ; a small black spot on COSta near base followed by a 

 tridentate patch below costa; a curved black mark above inner 

 margin before middle followed by a triangular spot; an oblique 

 maculate black hand from middle of costa to below vein 2, con- 

 fluent with a patch at lower angle of cell which is continent with 

 another patch below it; a bifid patch on costa above end of cell 

 with a spot beyond it on costa; an oblique wedge-shaped patch 

 with waved edges from apex to below vein 6 ; a patch on vein 5 

 conjoined to a subterminal triangular patch on veins 1, 'A ; a small 

 spot at extremity of vein 5. Hind wing ochreous, the inner area 

 sutiused with crimson : a black discoidal spot ; a small postmedial 

 spot above vein (j ; a scries of slight points from above vein 2 to 

 termen at vein 1 ; an oblique series of three spots from apex to 

 vein 5 and a bifid subterminal spot on veins 4, 3; the underside 

 with the costa tinged with crimson, an antemedial black bar from 

 costa to above median nervure and oblique postmedial bar formed 

 of three spots from costa to vein 0. 



$ . Fore wing with the black markings much more extensive 

 and confluent, leaving the base, a fascia in submedian fold, some 

 spots in, above, and beyond end of cell, an oblique liar from costa 

 towards apex with a spot below it, and a maculate terminal band 

 creamy white. Hind wing wholly suffused with crimson ; a large 

 fuscous patch from costa to vein 2 in and beyond end of cell and 

 a subterminal scries of large irregular patches and spots. 



Rob. Flobjes (Everett), type t 6 in Coll. Eothschild ; Lombok. 

 Sapit (FriiJistorfer), type $ . Exp., 6 50, $ 60 millim. 



1789 Tc. Spilosoma arctichroa. (Plate LX. fig. 15.) 



Diacrisia arctichroa, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 347 (1909). 



Head and thorax buff; palpi, frons, and antennae black-brown, 

 the palpi scarlet at base ; teguhe slightly edged with yellow and 

 sometimes with small black spots ; patagia with black patches, the 

 thorax with black dorsal stripe; pectus and legs black-brown, the 

 fore femora scarlet above, the coxa 1 yellowish ; abdomen scarlet, 

 the extremity and ventral surface yellow, dorsal, lateral, and sub- 

 lateral series' of small black spots. Fore wing buff, the base id' 

 inner margin tinged with scarlet; the costal edge black towards 

 base; a small black spot in base of cell and subbasal spot below 

 the cell; an antemedial maculate band interrupted at the veins. 

 angled outwards at middle and oblique towards costa and inner 

 margin ; an elongate black spot in and beyond upper extremity id' 

 cell with two small obliquely-placed spots above it; three post- 

 medial black points below costa ; an oblique series of very irregular 

 spots and patches in the interspaces from apex to inner margin 



