266 ARCTIAD^. 



C01M.BATORE (Walhouse), 1 (S type sxihjecta, 1 5 type spilosomata. 

 Exp., S 32, $ 42 millim. 



1705. Diacrisia melanosoma. (Plate XLIV, fig. 3.) 

 Thyrgorina melanosoma, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 15 (1894). 



(S . Pure white ; palpi black above, orange below ; frons black 

 at sides ; aatennse brown ; shoulders with orange or orange-crimson 

 patches ; fore coxoe orange ; legs striped with black above ; abdomen 

 white banded with black above, or more or less orange above with 

 the bands reduced to spots or sometimes obsolete ; wings sometimes 

 immaculate. Pore wing sometimes with oblique postmedial series 

 of fuscous spots from vein 5 to 2 and some subterminal short streaks 

 on each side of veins 6 to 3. Hind wing sometimes with discoidal 

 fuscous spot, and subterminal spot above vein o and one to four 

 towards tornus. 



Hah. W. Chii^^a, Washan (Pratt), 1 $ ; N.W. Himalayas, Simla 

 (Harford), 2d, 4 $ , Dalhousie (Harford), 3 cj" , 2 $ , Murree, 



1 S 1 Abbotabad (Yerhury), 1 § , Kulu (G. Young), 1 $ ; Sikhim, 



2 c? , 1 $ ; Assam, Khasis. Exp., S 36, 2 ^6 millim. Type fin 

 Coll. Elwes. 



1706. Diacrisia latipemiis. 



Spilosoma Ictipennis, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 133, pi. C. f. 5 

 (1872) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 229. 



5 . Pure white ; antennas with the branches black ; fore coxae 

 and femora above pink, the tibia and tarsus streaked with black; 

 wings thinly scaled. 



Hah. U.8.A., Atlantic States, Grote CoU., 1 § . Exp., S 40, 

 2 46 millim. 



Egg. Soule, Psj^che, vii. p. 71. 



Hemispherical, flattened at base ; yellowish white. 



Larva. Young: Pale yellowish with long blackish hair; head 

 with lateral dark spots, the mouth-parts pinkish ; three dorsal 

 series of dark warts and a dark spot on 10th somite. 



Stages 2, 3. Without dark warts or spots except on head ; the 

 hair white, black on dorsum. 



Stage 4. Interrupted subdorsal and lateral series of grey points ; 

 warts pale yellow, with a bright yellow one on each side of 10th 

 somite ; hair longer anteriorly and posteriorly. 



Stage 5, Body grey, with darker subdorsal and lateral lines ; 

 warts on 10th somite pale yellow and prominent, elsewhere grey ; 

 hairs grey with a few white ones at extremities. 



Stage 6. Hairs tan-coloured with a few long black ones ; spiracles 

 white, largest on 10th somite. 



Stage 7. Head yellow-brown with dark brown upper half ; body 

 dark velvety brown ; hair black, tan towards base ; spiracles very 

 prominent, white. 



