412 LITHOSIAB-S:. 



brown, the veins streaked with whitish ; an ohlique elliptical white 

 medial spot above vein 1 ; a curved white band on apical area from 

 below costa to just before termen at vein 5. Hind wing black- 

 brown. 



Hub. Dutch N. Guinea, Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley (Pratt), 

 type f d in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exp. 44 millim. 



1804. Spilosoma sordida, insert : — 



ab. trifasdata, Spuler, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 128 (1906). 

 Fore wing with the dots confluent and forming maculate lines, 

 hybr. seileri, Caradja.. Iris, xi. p. 393, pi. vi. ff. 1-6 (1908). 

 ■sordida -j- hictuosa. 



1805. Spilosoma luctuosa, insert : — 



ab. djamila, Schawerda, Verh. zooL-bot. Ges. Wien, lx. p. 91 (1910). 



Wings with the spots more developed especially the subterminal 

 spots of the hind wing. — Herzegovina. 



1S06. Spilosoma mendica, insert : — 



ab. hinaghii, Turati, Atti Mus. Milano, xlii. p. 39, pi. iii. ff. 3-6 (1903). 



J . Intermediate between mendica and rustica. 



ab. depuncta, Schultz, Ent. Zeitschr. xxii. p. 183 (1908). 



2 . Wings with one bkck point. 



hybr. standfussi, Caradja, Soc. Ent. p. 49 (1894) ; Seitz, Gr.-Schni. pal ii. 



p. 91, pi. 17 c. 

 <J . Sandy-colour; formed by crossing mendica with rustica. 



hybr. iltversa, Caradja, Iris, xi. p. 397, pi. vi. ff. 14, 15 (1898) ; Seitz, Gr.- 

 Schm. pal. ii. p. 91, pi. 17 c. 



White with many black points ; formed by crossing standfussi $ 

 with rustica. 



hybr. viertli, Caradja, Iris, x. p. 371, pi. ix. ff. 5-11. (1897). 



rustica J + sordida $ . 

 hybr. hi Juris. Caradja, Iris, xi. p. 396, pi. vi. ff. 10-11 (1898). 



viertli 4- inversa. 



hybr. heata, Caradja, Iris, xi. p. 395, pi. vi. ff. 7-9 (1898). 

 viertli + mendica. 



1808. Spilosoma infemalis. 



var. immaClllalis, Wileman, PhiL Journ. Sci. xii. p. 239, pi. ii. ff. 4, 5 



(1917). 

 2 ■ Wings with the markings almost obsolete, 

 var. niuci/lulis, Wileman, Phil. Journ. Sci. xii. p. 239, pi. ii. ff. 8, 9 



(1917). 

 5. Pore wiiiLT witli the markings reduced to a postmedial band 

 interrupted beyond the cell and almost conjoined to a broad curved 

 subterminal band; hind wing with the postmedial band obsolete. 



