DIACRISIA. 



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at angles of cell ; a few postmedial ])oints ; a subterminal series of 

 points on each side of the veins, incurved below costa ; some points 

 on termen. Hind winp: with discoidal spot ; subterminal spots 

 below costa and near veins o and 2. 



Eore wing with the number of points often much reduced. 



Hah. jAFA-s(Feitton,Jones, Lewis), 3 c?, 3 5 ,Yokohama (Mnnleij), 



2 <S , Nagasaki (LeecJi), 1 c? , 1 $ , Hakodate,! $ , Oiwake {Fryer), 

 1 2 ; CoREA, Gensan (LeocJi), 1 d' , 1 2 > China, Shanghai (Fryer), 

 1 2 , Ningpo (Leech), 1 2 , Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 c? , 1 2 , Kwei- 

 chow, 1 2 , Moupin (KvicheUorff). 1 2 • Exp., S 42, 2 48 millim. 



1713. Diacrisia robusta. (Plate XLIV. fig. 14.) 

 Spilosoma robustmn, Leech, Trans. Ent. See. 1899, p. 149. 



White ; palpi scarlet at base, black at tips ; antennae black ; 

 shoulders and patagia with black jwints in male; crimson streaks 

 below the base of wings ; fore coxae at sides and femora above 

 scarlet ; the fore coxae, tibiae, and tarsi striped with black ; abdomen 

 scarlet, suffused with crimson above, dorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing with black spot in upper angle of 

 cell : medial spots above and below vein 1, and sometimes a sub- 

 terminal point below vein G. Hind wing with discoidal spot, and 

 sometimes a postmedial point below vein 2 and a subterminal point 

 below vein 1. 



Hah. W. China, Moupin (Kriclieldorff), 1^,12 type. 

 Exp., c? 62, 2 70 millim. 



1714. Diacrisia erythrozona. (Plate XLIV. fig. 21.) 



Euprepia ert/thro-ona, Koll. Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 468 (1844) ; Ilmpsu, 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 

 Spilosoma cognata, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 11 (1869); Kirby, Oat. 



Het. p. 234. 



Pure wliite ; palpi and branches of antenna) black ; legs streaked 

 with black ; fore femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson above 

 with black bands, the base and extremity white; a sublateral series 

 of black points. Fore wing with the costal edge black in male to 

 beyond middle ; a black point at lower angle of cell and sometimes 

 a subterminal point above vein 5. Hind wing usually with discoidal 

 spot, and sometimes subterminal spots above vein 5 and below 2. 



JIab. N.W. Himalayas, type J cognata, Kashmir (Leech), 3 (5*, 



3 2) Dalhousic (Harford), 11 c? , 4 2 , Dharmsala (Hocking), 1 c?, 

 1 2 . Eip., S 42, 2 40 millim. 



*171''>. Diacrisia erythrastis. (Plate XLIV. fig. 8.) 



Spilosoma erythrastis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 7r)3 (1886) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 263. 

 Spi/oso/na frciii/iii, Lucas, 1'. Soc. Queeusl. xiii. p. ,")9 (1898). 



cJ. Head and thorax jiuro white; palpi at tips, antenna^ spots 

 on tcguhu and patagia, and a stripe on vertex of thorax black; 



