dll 1,1 1'IIOSIAI) v.. 



at sides, the femora with yellowish white patches; abdomen black- 

 brown with narrow yellow bands. Fore wing black-brown, a small 

 3'ellowish white spot at base; a subbasal spot below costa; an 

 antemedial point in cell and large spot below the cell; a round 

 spot in middle of cell with obliquely curved mark above its inner 

 side ; a rather quadrate patch below the cell and point above inner 

 margin ; a quadrate patch in end of cell ; an oblique postmedial 

 series of five spots, the spot in submedian interspace large and 

 quadrate, the spot above inner margin small; subterminal spots 

 above and below vein 7 with two minute spots above them; a 

 series of seven spots before termen, the two spots towards apex and 

 the spot in submedian interspace small, blind wing brown, the 

 cell pale yellow with two spots beyond it and a small spot below 

 its extremity ; a fascia in submedian interspace to beyond middle ; 

 a scries of six rather elongate spots before termen and a faint 

 diffuse! patch above tornus. 



Sab. Assam, Khasis, 1 6 . Exp. 52millim. Typeftfin Coll. 

 Rothschild. 



*1810 h. Spilosoma turati. 



Estigmene turatii, Oberth. Et. Lep. Comp. v. i. p. 336, pi. lxxxii. f. 770 



(1911). 



d . Head and thorax creamy white, the back of head scarlet, 

 the tegulse with large black-brown patches and edged with scarlet, 

 the patagia and dorsum of thorax with black-brown stripes ; 

 abdomen scarlet with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the 

 ventral surface partly white. Fore wing black-brown, the veins 

 streaked with whitish; creamy white spots below costa at and 

 near base with a spot beyond them below the cell; a curved 

 antemedial series of four spots, the spot in cell elongate and the spot 

 above inner margin minute; medial quadrate spots on costa and in 

 cell and an oblique series of three spots between lower angle of 

 cell and inner margin ; a round spot beyond the cell in discal fold 

 and two small spots beyond lower angle; a curved postmedial 

 series of spots, the spots above veins 3 and 2 strigiform and those 

 above vein 1 and inner margin minute; an oblique patch from 

 costa before apex, patches on termen at discal fold and above 

 vein '2, two small spots below apex and one below vein 1, the last 

 with a quadrate spot before it. Hind wing black-brown; an 



elongate creamy white spot below costa above end of cell with 

 spol beyond it; a spot in discal fold just beyond the cell and 

 another beyond lower angle ; a pink streak below end of cell and 

 a postmedial streak below vein 2 with creamy white points beyond 

 and above it. Underside of fore wing with the lower part of 

 spots below basal part of costa and above basal half of inner 

 margin tinged with pink; hind wing with elongate creamy white 

 spot below costa near base, two points on termen at discal fold and 

 a slight streak at vein 2. 



Huh. \Y. China, Siao-lu. Exp. 70 milium This species is 

 unknown to me. 



