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1~!>7 a. Diacrisia danbyi, Neum. is a distinct species. 



1798. Diacrisia imparilis. 



Larva, Miyake, Bull. Coll. Agric. Tokio, viii. p. 107; Wileman, Phil. 

 Journ. Soi. \ii. p. 237, pi. i. ff. 10, 11, 12. 



Purplish fuscous; hairs greyish white and greyish black; head 

 and ]i'«4's greyish fuscous; dorsal and subdorsal scries of greyish 

 yellow spots ; tubercles mostly ochreous brown, sonic on somites 

 0-12 metallic blue; prothoracic shield metallic blue. Food-plants: 

 mulberry, peach, pear, plum, cherry, apple, elder, etc. 



1798^. Spilosoma melanochroa. (Plate LXVI. fig. 16.) 

 Spilosoma melaiiochroa, Hmpsn. Nov. Zool. xxv. p. 216 (1918). 



J. Head and thorax black-brown; tegulse edged with yellowish 

 dorsally and at sides; antenna} with the basal joint white; palpi 

 orange-yellow at base in front; abdomen orange-yellow with 

 dorsal and lateral series of small black spots, the hair at base of 

 dorsum dark brown ; fore coxa' orange-yellow ; pectus and femora 

 whitish and brown, the hind tibia' banded black and white. Fore 

 wing black-brown; an ochreous white antemedial line from discal 

 fold to submedian fold where it is somewhat dilated ; an oblique 

 irregular ochreous white medial band from below costa to median 

 nervure with slight streaks before and beyond it at subcostal 

 nervure and beyond it in discal fold; the lower discocellular with 

 ochreous white striga and the veins beyond the cell with slight 

 ochreous white streaks ; a curved ochreous white postmedial line, 

 somewhat dentate at the veins and interrupted between veins 7, 6 

 and just below vein 3 ; a diffused rather maculate ochreous white 

 terminal line from vein 7 to tornus. Hind wing black-brown 

 with a slight whitish streak on extremity of subcostal nervure and 

 base of vein 7 ; the underside greyer brown with whitish patches 

 at base and middle of costa. 



Hub. Madras, Nilgiris (Ami races), 1 <S type. Exp. 30millim. 



1802. Diacrisia turensis, insert : — 

 var. maracandica, Seitz, Gr.-Schm. pal. ii. p. 92. pi. 17(7 (1910). 



Larger and often paler; fore wing with the black lines reduced 

 to dots. 



*1803«. Spilosoma styx. (Plate LX. fig. 20.) 

 Diacrisia styx, Beth. -Baker, A.M.N.H. (S) vi. p. 443 (1910). 



d . Head and thorax fulvous orange; palpi, frons, antenna, 

 pectus, and legs black-brown ; abdomen black-brown with Literal 

 yellow fascia' except towards base and the anal tuft orange, ;i 

 ventral yellow fascia except towards extremity. Fore wing black- 



