410 LITHOSIAD.2B. 



hairs among the black ones ; a white lateral line sometimes present ; 

 head and legs brown, claspers reddish. Food-plants: Curcuma, 

 Siec/esbeckia orientalis, Pluchea indica, Adenostema viscosum, 

 and La nt (ina camara. 



Pupa black or red-bi - own in a thick black silken cocoon mixed 

 with hail 1 . 



170.5 a. Spilosoma smnatraiia. (Plate LX. fig. 18.) 

 Diacrisia sumatrana, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 143 (1905). 



J. Dull reddish brown; antennae whitish; palpi and from 

 darker brown; abdomen with very faint crimson tinge, dorsal and 

 lateral series of obscure black spots. Fore wing with antemedial 

 series of indistinct small dark spots, very oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; small indistinct spots at 

 angles of cell and a series from lower angle to inner margin ; traces 

 of a subterminal series of dark points placed in pairs on each side 

 of the veins; some slight points on termen. Hind wing with a 

 very faint crimson tinge ; an indistinct diffused dark discoidal 

 patch and maculate subterminal band. 



Hob. Sumatra, Soekaranda, 1 6 type. Exp. 36 millim. 



subsp. sumatrensis continentalis, Roths. Nov. Zool.xvii. p. 147(1910), 

 & xviii. pi. 3. f. 31. 



S . Much darker, the head, thorax, and fore wing dark brown, 

 the abdomen and hind wing rather paler. 



Hab. Pebak, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. 



1795 b. Spilosoma aurapsa. (Plate LX. fig. 19.) 

 Diacrisia aurapsa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 620 (1905). 



2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen very dark red-brown, the last 

 with scarlet lateral stripes except at extremity; antennae pale. 

 Pore wing very dark red-brown; traces of a dark medial line 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; 

 a slight black spot at upper angle of cell and points in and below 

 lower angle ; a faint minutely waved postmedia] line excurved 

 from costa to vein J, then oblique; a slighl oblique dark shade 

 from apex. Hind wing dark greyish brown; the underside with 

 diffused obliquely curved antemedial line, small spot at upper angle 

 of cell, and curved postmedia] and subterminal lines. 



dial). Amboim, Saparua I., 1 ? type. Exp. 16 millim. 



1796. Spilosoma vagans, insert (syn.) : — 

 Rhagonis binder. Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 271 (1862). 



1 7 '. > 7 . Spilosoma rubra, insert (syn.): — 

 Diacrisia /,•.<.-•/./«(. Dyar, V. Ent. Soc, Wash. vi. p. 18 (1904). 



