SIM l.dSdM \. 



415 



ISllrr. Spilosoma vivida. 



Aloa vivida, Wileman, Kntom. xliii. p. 246 (1910); Mats. Thousand Ins. 

 Jap., Suppl. iii. pi. xxxv. ff. 3, 22. 



Antenna of male serrate on upperside, pectinate on lower. 



6. Head and thorax rufous; palpi crimson at base, black at 

 tips; lower part of frons black; antennae black; a crimson bar 

 behind the eves; fore coxa' and the femora above crimson, the 

 tibiae and tarsi black above ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface 

 rufous, dorsal and lateral series of small black spots except at base 

 and extremity. Pore wing rufous; a small antemedial black spot 

 above vein l"; an oblique series of black points from below apex to 



Fig. 92. — Spilosoma vivida, J. 



inner margin beyond middle, almost obsolete from below vein 6 to 

 above 2 ; slight subterminal black points between veins 5 and 3. 

 Hind wing crimson ; a minute discoidal black point; cilia pale at 

 tips. Underside of fore wing crimson. 



5 . Frons black at sides only ; bind wing with black discoidal 

 spot and subterminal spots below vein 2 and on vein 1 nearer 

 termen ; underside of fore wing with black discoidal spot. 



Hab. Formosa (Mtoes), 1 6, Kanshirei (Wileman), 1 J, 

 type fd, $ in Coll. Wileman. Exp., 6 30, $ GO millim. 



1812. Spilosoma lineata, insert (syn.) : — 

 Spilosoma albida, Bartel, Iris, xvi. p. 180 (1903). 

 " Germ. E. Africa," Dar-es-Salaam; cotype t $ in Mus. Berlin. 

 Larva. Fawcett, Trans. Zool. Soc. xv. p. 315, pi. xlix. f. 15 (1900). 

 Dark fuscous; each somite with six large and two small black 

 tubercles bearing tufts of black hair; dorsal line pale ferruginous, 

 darker at apex of each somite ; ventral surface paler ; head and 

 legs black ; spiracles ferruginous. Food-plant : Passiflora. 



*1813 a. Spilosoma butti. 

 Diacrisia butti, Roths. Nov. Zool. rvii. p. 126, pi. 14. f. 42 (1910). 



<$. Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow, the tips of tegulae 

 and a streak on dorsum of thorax orange ; palpi and antenna- 

 except at base black; legs black ringed with ochreous, the bind 

 tibiae mostly ochreous; abdomen orange dorsally banded with 



