416 UTIIOSTAD.E. 



black, a spot on basal segment and patch on anal segment, lateral 

 and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral surface paler. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous yellow ; an antemedial black line expanding 

 into a small spot at costa, angled inwards in cell and submedian 

 fold and outwards at median nervure and to inner margin ; a 

 discoidal point ; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, connected on inner 

 margin with the antemedial line by a black fascia. Hind wing 

 pale yellow with small black discoidal spot. 



/lab. Cape Colony, Beaufort West, Nieuwveld Mts. (Mrs. 

 Butt), type f d in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 40 millim. 



1814 a. Spilosoma ougarra. (Plate LXI. fig. 1.) 



Diacrisia owgarra, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 191 (1908). 



c? . Head and thorax brownish white ; palpi, frons, and antenna? 

 black-brown ; tegulae with some black at base and scarlet below ; 

 patagia with large black patches ; thorax with broad black dorsal 

 stripe ; pectus and legs black-brown, the femora scarlet above 

 except towards extremities ; abdomen scarlet with some whitish at 

 base and extremity and dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the 

 ventral surface brownish white with brown spot at base. Fore 

 wing creamy white suffused with buff except on the veins and 

 margin ; the costa streaked with black-brown to beyond middle ; 

 slight subbasal black streaks below costa and in cell and a triangular 

 patch below cell ; a medial black spot on costa, oblique patch in 

 cell and broad oblique band from cell to vein 1 ; a spot on costa 

 above end of cell ; an oblique quadrate discoidal patch and broad 

 oblique band from lower end of cell to vein 1 interrupted by the 

 white streak on vein 2 above which it is conjoined to the postmedial 

 series of patches with the costal mark elongate, emitting a fork 

 to apex and the patch above vein 1 bidentate ; a terminal series of 

 spots from vein 6 to 1, the spots smaller above and below, ami 

 those above veins 3 and 2 quadrate. Hind wing scarlet, the veins 

 of terminal half whitish ; an oblique triangular discoidal spot ; a 

 postmedial series of spots from costa to vein 1, the spots towards 

 costa elongate; a wedge-shaped patch at apex followed by small 

 spots to vein 3 ; cilia white with small black spots from apex to 

 vein 3. Underside of fore wing scarlet, the apical area and veins 

 whitish, the black markings as above; hind wing pale scarlet, the 

 costal area and veins whitish, the black markings as above. 



Hah. Bit. X. Guinea, Owgarra (Meek), 1 <s . Exp. 54 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



subsp. ffermatlica, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 116 (1910). 



6. Fore wing with the black markings reduced, especially the 

 postmedial markings between veins 4 and 2 ; bind wing with the 

 postmedial baud interrupted between veins 4 and 3. 



Ilnl). "(!eum. X. GriniirEA," Sattelberg (Wahnes), type tcJ in 

 Coll. Rothschild, Dampier I. 



