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yellow. Hind wing fuscous black, the veins and submedian fold 

 obscurely streaked with scarlet; a slight blackish discoidal mark ; 

 a narrow rather diffused curved fulvous yellow postmedial hand ; 

 the costa fulvous yellow towards apex; cilia fulvous yellow. 

 Underside of fore wing with dull scarlet streak below postmedial 

 part of costa, in cell, on median nervure and base of vein '2. and in 

 submedian fold: hind wing with fulvous yellow fascia on medial 

 part of costa, a slight subterminal mark above vein 5, and oblique 

 bar from vein 3 to termen at submedian fold. 



Rah. " GrERMAN X. triiNKA," Bolanherg (JReyss er), type 1 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 38 millim. 



1794^. Spilosonia melanodisca. (Plate LX. fig. 17.) 



Diacrisia melanodisca, Hmpsn. A. M. X. H. (7) xix. p. 236 (1907). 



6 . Head and thorax deep rufous ; antennae whitish ; patagia 

 with black spots and paler tips ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown ; 

 abdomen dull orange with dorsal and lateral series of blackish 

 spots. Fore wing buff tinged with rufous especially towards costa ; 

 a black point at base ; an antemedial series of black points angled 

 outwards just below cell ; a large blackish patch in end of cell 

 confluent with a medial maculate band which is angled on median 

 nervure ; an indistinct postmedial line with dark points on the 

 veins, oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved at discal fold and 

 oblique below vein 4, some small black spots beyond it towards 

 costa and from vein 3 to inner margin met at vein G by an oblique 

 fascia from costa near apex ; cilia with a series of black spots. 

 Hind wing pale dull yellow with small black discoidal lunule and 

 subterminal spots at veins 5, 2, 1. 



9 . Fore wing with the ground-colour bright rufous irrorated 

 with brown. 



If ah. Uganda, Ruwenzori, GOOD' (Ruirenzori Exp.), 1 J, 

 1 $ type. Exp., 6 3S, 2 40 millim. 



1704. Spilosonia strigatula, insert (syn.) : — 

 Diacrisia amilada, Swinh. A. M. X. H. (7) xx. p. 70 (1907). 

 Sumatra, Padang, 1 J type. 

 Larva. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. xlviii. p. 184, pi. vi. ff. 2, 3. 



1795. Spilosonia landaca. insert (syn.) : — 



Diacrisia sumai iiica, Roths. Xov. Zool. xvii. p. 147 (1910). 



.1 4.VA, Djember (Mollinger), type f cJ in Coll. Rothschild. 



Larva. Piepers ; Tijd. v. Ent. xlviii. p. 185, pi. vi. ft'. 4-6. 



Young: grey: subdorsal line black; 4th and 5th somites with 

 short orange hairs ; oblique lateral grey streaks ; the dorsal warts 

 with tufts of black hair : head dark brown. 



Adult : with thick tufts of black hair ; orange on the 4th and 

 5th somites, a few black hairs among the orange hairs and white 



