-U.'jO LITIIOSTAD.r. 



with white, except the discocellulars, the subcostal streak and 

 streak on vein 1 broader towards base ; a white streak in submedian 

 fold from near base to beyond middle ; cilia white except at vein 3. 

 Hind wing grey- black ; a white streak in submedian fold from 

 base to beyond middle ; cilia white except at vein 3. 



al>. 1. Fore wing with the white streaks narrower. 



Uah. Mexico, Tehuacan {Jlli/Ier), 2 c? , Guerrero, Hidalgo 

 (Mann Sf Skctves), 1 <$ . Exp. 38 millim. 



1855 a. Estigmene cosmeta. (Plate LXI. fig. 23.) 

 Spilosoma cosmeta, Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxxi. p. 170 (1907). 



<5 . Head and thorax orange mixed with brown ; palpi and sides of 

 frons blackish ; antennae brown ; fore femora pale crimson above ; 

 abdomen pale crimson with blackish dorsal and lateral maculate 

 stripes, the ventral surface orange banded with blackish. Fore 

 wing orange irrorated with blackish; a rather diffused blackish ante- 

 medial line angled outwards on median nervure ; a diffused blackish 

 discoidal spot ; medial line excurved round the discoidal spot, then 

 obliquely incurved ; a diffused blackish postmedial band, angled 

 outwards at vein 5, then oblique ; a diffused blackish terminal band 

 narrowing to tornus. Hind wing orange-yellow; a black discoidal 

 spot ; a black subterminal band from just below costa to above 

 tornus, expanding to termen at veins 2 and 1; a terminal black 

 line from apex to vein 2. Underside of both wings orange with 

 black discoidal spots and subterminal band. 



Fore tibia with the claw minute. 



Sab. N.S. Wales, Cockbum (Loiver), 2 6 . Exp. 30 millim. 



185G. Estigmene imbuta, insert : — 



Estigmene imbuta siklcimensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 1G2 (1010). 

 An aberration with the spots of fore wing fewer and reduced, 

 the underside of abdomen wholly black. 

 Sikhim, type S , S hi Coll. Rothschild. 



Estigmene imbuta khasiana, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 162 (1910). 

 An aberration with the veins of fore wing more prominently 

 orange ; hind wing uniform brown with the veins yellow. 

 Assam, Khasis, type f 6 , 2 m Coll. Rothschild. 



*1858 a. Estigmene ochreomarginata. 

 Estigmene ochreomarginata, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 429 (1909). 

 Amsacta ansorgei, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 157 (1910), & xviii. pi. 3. f. 36. 



S . Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the neck with slight 

 orange ring; abdomen orange with dorsal series of black spots, the 

 ventral surface dark brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown, the 

 costa orange and some orange at base of inner margin. Hind wing 

 pale yellow, the cilia brown from apex to vein 2; the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. C<;\ni>\, Acholi Country, Patigo, type f cf in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker, IJnyoro, Kitanwa (Ansorge), type t J ansorgei in 

 Coll. Kothschild. Exp. 40 millim. 



