SPILOSOMA. 413 



ab. Wiloman, Phil. Journ. Sci. xii. p. 239, pi. ii. ff. 6, 7 (1917). 



$. Fore wing with the markings reduced to a spot at upper 

 angle of cell, narrow oblique postmedial hand from vein o to above 

 inner margin with a spot beyond it above vein 5 ; hind wing with 

 spot at upper angle of cell and subterniinal spots at diseal fold and 

 between veins 4 and 1. 



Larva- Miyake, Bull. Coll. Agric. Tokio, viii. p. 167 ; Wileman, Phil. 

 Journ. Sci. xii. p. 239, pi. ii. ff. 2, 3. 



Purplish fuscous ; hairs whitish and blackish mixed ; head oehre- 

 ous brown ; a yellowish dorsal line and some indistinct irregular 

 lateral lines ; tubercles of dorsal half metallic blue, the lateral 

 tubercles ochreous brown. Food-plants: mulberry, peach, pear, 

 cherry, apple, Quercas serrata, Q. glandulifera, iSalijc, etc. 



*1809 a. Spilosoma anopunctata. 



Diacrisia anopunctata, Oberth. Et. L£p. Comp. v» i. p. 336, pL Ixxxii. 

 f. 775 (1911). 



c? . Head and thorax white, the tegulse with black-brown sub- 

 dorsal spots and yellow tips, the patagia with black points near 

 base, the dorsum of thorax with broad brown stripe ; antenna? 

 black-brown ; abdomen orange-yellow with dorsal black point on 

 anal segment. Fore wing brown ; the costa with four opiadvate 

 white spots to end of cell ; a white patch below base of cell 

 extending to inner margin at base and conjoined to a rather 

 triangular antemedial spot below the cell ; spots in middle and end 

 of cell and a discoidal striga ; obliquely placed medial spots below 

 end of cell, in submedian interspace and an elongate spot above 

 inner margin ; a spot beyond end of cell with two spots beyond it, 

 two small spots above it on costa and a point beyond lower angle 

 of cell ; an oblique bar formed by three spots from costa towards 

 apex, and an oblique series of minute spots between vein 5 and 

 inner margin, the spot in submedian interspace larger ; a series of 

 spots on termen, those below veins 5 and 4 just before termen 

 with small spots beyond theui ; cilia chequered with black to 

 vein 2. Hind wing white with fuscous discoidal spot, a small 

 subterminal spot at diseal fold and bar-shaped spots at vein 2 and 

 above tornus. 



Hab. W. China, Tse-kou. JExp. 52 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



1810 a. Spilosoma chasiana. 



Diacrisia khasiana, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 148 (1910), & xviii. pi. 3. 

 f. 19. 



J . Head and thorax black-brown, the vertex of head yellowish 

 white, the teguke Avith dorsal and lateral yellowish white spots, the 

 patagia with yellowish white patches on upper and lower edges ; 

 shoulders with small orange spots, the fore coxa with some orange 



