DIACRISIA. 27o 



1726. Diacrisia curvilinea. (Plate XXIV. fig. 4.) 



Spilosoma cwrviUiiea, Wlk. iii. 071 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 241. 



Dull yellowish white ; palpi, t'rons, and basal joint of antennae 

 orange, the palpi at sides and branches of anteniue black ; pectus 

 and legs orange, the tibiae and tarsi striped with black; abdomen 

 orange. Fore wing with black antemedial line slighth' excurved 

 below costa ; a medial line with spot on it at upper angle of cell, 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardlj' oblique and 

 sinuous ; a sinuous postmedial line excurved between veius o and 3 ; 

 cilia yellowish ; the lines sometimes much reduced and partially 

 obsolete. Hind wing 5-ell()wish white, with black discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete. — 

 Gambia, Coll. Druce. 



Hah. Lagos (^SYr«7i«/i), 1 $ ; Gambia (J/o?oucy) ; Congo (Cwn-or), 

 1 d , 1 $ type. Exp., 6 32, $ 38 millim. 



1727. Diacrisia aurantiaca. (Plate XLIV. fig. 10.) 



Alpcnus aurantiaea, Holl. Psyche, yi. p. 397 (1893), $. 

 Alpenus multiscripta, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 398 (1893), S . 



S ' Pale oehreous ; palpi and frons dark brown. Fore legs and 

 mid and hind tibiae and tarsi brown ; abdomen orange above, with 

 dorsal and lateral series of black points. Fore wing irrorated with 

 brown ; a subbasal brown line oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then sinuous ; a medial line oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, where it is joined by a discoidal lunule ; the postmedial 

 line bent outwards below costa, excurved from vein 5 to 3, then 

 slightly incurved and with an obliciue line beyond it from costa to 

 vein G ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, with slight discoidal black point. 



$ . Fulvous orange ; the 3rd joint of palpi, tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish ; fore wing without the terminal series of points : hind 

 wing orange or orange-yellow, without discoidal point. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Austen), 1 S ; Niger E., Akasa {Lugard), 

 1 $ ; Cameroons, Ogove R., 1 J, ntaJtiscripta cotype. Exp., 

 S 32, $ 48 millim. Type f $ in Coll. Holland. 



1728. Diacrisia bifurca. (Plate XLIV. tig. 20.) 



Aloa bifurca, Wlk. iii. 700 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 238. 

 Spilarctia radiom, Druce, A. M. N.H. (7) i. ]). 211 (1S97). 



2 . Head and tboi'ax oehreous white : palpi and antenna^ black ; 

 tegular edged with orange ; teguhc, shoulders, and patagia with 

 black spots ; legs oehreous and black ; fore coxae orange with l)lack 

 spots ; al)rlomen oehreous, the dorsal surface orange, dorsal and 

 lateral series and some sublateral black spots. Fore wing oehreous : 

 a black point at base and spots on costa ; an irregular oblicpie brown 

 line from costa before middle to below cell iiot (juite met by an erect 



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