SPILOSOMA. 11',) 



series of small black spots. Fore wing creamy white with black 

 spot at base, otherwise immaculate or with small antemedial spot 

 above vein 1, spot at upper angle of cell, postmedial spots above 

 and below vein 1, and subfcerminal spots below costa and vein (>. 

 Hind wing white, the inner area tinged with crimson, immaculate 

 oi- with black diseoidal spot. 



2 • Fore wing tlesh-pink, a black point at base, otherwise 

 immaculate or with antemedial black point above vein 1 and 

 oblique striga on upper discocellular ; hind wing crimson, imma- 

 culate or with black diseoidal spot. 



Hab. Philippines, Cebu, 1 d , 1 2 » Taytai (Betton), 1 $ . 

 Exp., J 38, 2 50-5G millim. 



Larva. Semper, Lep. Phil. ii. p. 488, pi. P. if. 1, 2, 3. 



Brown thickly clothed with long brown hair, a reddish brown 

 lateral stripe with the white-centred stigmata on it and whitish 

 spots above and below it. Food-plants : " Ilang-ilang," etc. 



1S17. Spilosoma niceta, del. Spilosoma metarJioda, and insert: — 



Diacrisia niceta saturata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 152 (1910). 



A form from the Kei Is. with the fore wing dark buff in male 

 and the hind wing entirely crimson, in female the fore wing 

 suffused with brownish pink. Type t d. $ in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Diacrisia niceta papuana, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 152 (1910). 



A form with the fore wing creamy white, the interspaces tinged 

 with brownish buff. 



Dutch N. Guinea, Waigeu, Dorey, Fak-fak; " Germ. N. 

 Guinea," Constantinhafen, Sattelberg; Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea 

 (JPratt), 3 d , Babooni (Pratt), 3 6 , Sogeri, 1 d" , Kumasi It., 

 Mambare R.,Moroka ; Aru Is. Type fin Coll. Rothschild. 



Diacrisia niceta intermedia, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 153 (1910). 



Be. N. Guinea; D'Entrecasteaux Is.; Trobriand Is.; 

 Louisiades. Type f in Coll. Rothschild. 



Diacrisia niceta mysolica, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxii. p. 210 (1915). 

 2 ■ Fore wing immaculate ; hind wing with black diseoidal spot. 

 Mvsol (Taueni), type t 2 in Coll. Rothschild. 



Diacrisia niceta pallida, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiii. p. 333 (191G). 

 Fore wing pale flesh colour. 



Br. N. Guinea; Bismarck Arch., Admiralty "Is., Vulcan I. 

 type f c? in Coll. Rothschild. 



1818. Spilosoma nebulosa, insert (syn.) : — 



Diacrisia simanensis, Miyake, Bull. Coll. Agric. Tokio, viii. p. 163, fig. 2 

 (1909). 



Japan, Shimane, Mionaseki, Id cotype, Shiga, Zeze. 



1820 a. Spilosoma viridis. (Plate LXI. fig. G.) 

 Phragmatobia viridis, Druce, A. M.N. H. (7) xii. p. 222 (Aug. 1903). 

 Diacrisia viridis, Dogn. Le Nat. (2) xvii. p. 213 (Sept. 1903). 



6 . Head and thorax grass-green ; palpi scarlet, sides of frons 



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