420 XITHOSIAD.E. 



brown ; pectus and legs scarlet, the tibise green above ; abdomen 

 scarlet suffused with brown. Fore wing grass-green; the costal 

 edge pale red ; a slight subbasal black mark in cell ; antemedial 

 line black, expanding into a wedge-shaped patch on costa, acutely 

 angled outwards on median nervure, then very obliquely incurved 

 to inner margin ; a black discoidal lunule with blackish point 

 above it below costa; postmedial line forming a black spot on 

 costa, then slightly incurved and outwardly oblique to vein 5 

 where it is excurved, then strongly incurved and forming a black 

 spot on inner margin. Hind wing rather paler grass-green ; a 

 slight brown postmedial line, excurved from vein 6 to 4, then 

 incurved and ending at vein 1 above tornus. Underside of fore 

 wing with black streak on base of costa. 



II ab. S.E. Peru, Carabaya, S. Domingo, 1 d, types f d in 

 Colls. Joicey and Dognin. JSxp. 42 millim. 



1821 a. Spilosonia togoensis. (Plate LXI. fig. 7.) 

 Spilosoma togoensis, Bartel, Iris, xvi. p. 184 (,1903). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen deep orange ; palpi with the 

 3rd joint black; antennsB black, except basal joint; tarsi black 

 above; abdomen with dorsal series of black spots except on basal 

 segment, the spot on terminal segment larger, a lateral series of 

 small spots and sublateral series of points except on basal and 

 terminal segments. Pore wing fulvous orange with black discoidal 

 point. Hind wing deep orange with elliptical black discoidal 

 spot. Underside orange; fore wing with the retinaculum black, 

 both wings with elliptical discoidal spot. 



1 1 oh. \Y. Africa {Dudgeon), 1 d, Togoland, Bismarckburg, 

 cotype t d in Mus. Berlin. ±\q>. -10-43 millim. 



1822 a. Spilosoma hampsoni. 



Dian-isia hampsoni, Joicey, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1915, p. 375, pi. 61. f. 5. 



d- Head orange; antenna 1 black-brown; frons and palpi velvety 

 black-brown ; thorax velvety black-brown, the outer edge of tegulae 

 and upper edge of patagia orange; eox;e and femora, exeepl a1 

 extremities, orange; abdomen orange-yellow, the extremity with 

 black-brown patch, the ventral surface with black-brown bands. 

 \\iiiL r velvety black-brown; a rather irregular creamy white 

 k in submedian fold from base to the subterminal line; a 

 creamy white' subbasal line from costa to the streak ; antemedial 

 line creamy white, expanding h . oblique to the streak, then 



incurved; a curved creamy white medial Line from costa to the 

 streak ; postmedial line creamy white, expanding at costa, excurved 

 to discal fold, then incurved ; subtenninal line creamy white, 

 angled inwards to the postmedial line at lower angle of cell and to 

 the streak at submedian fold and outwards to termen at discal 

 fold and vein 2; cilia creamy white. Hind wing creamy white. 



