DIACRISIA. 



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Yellowish wliite ; palpi, lower part of frons, and antennae black ; 

 vertex of head sometimes with black point ; teguloe with pair of 

 black points, patagia with two pairs ; thorax with dorsal black stripe ; 

 fore coxie and femora above orange, tibia) and tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen orange above except at base and extremity, a 

 dorsal series of black bars and lateral and sublateral series of points. 

 Pore wing with the retinaculum of male black ; points at base ; 

 subbasal, antemedial, medial, postmedial, and subtcnninal irregular 

 series of grey-centred black spots, the first two angled outwards 

 below median nervure, the 3rd on median nervure, the 4th excurved 

 from below costa to vein 3 round spots in angles of cell; some spots 

 from costa to vein 4 befoi'e tlie subterminal series; a scries of small 

 black spots on termen and cilia. Hind wing usually with discoidal 

 spot and sometimes two to four subterminal spots. 



Ab. 1. (pquaHs. Fore wing with the spots larger and more con- 

 joined ; hind wing with the spots larger. 



Ab. 2. investigatorum. Fore Aving with the spots not centred with 

 grey : {a) the spots larger, (6) the spots small. 



Hab. Sierra Leoxe {Foxcroft, Mltford), 1 J, G 5 > types aqualis, 

 indeterminata, and macularia ; Old Calabar (CocJchurn), 1 $ ; 

 AsHANTi (R. Broohimj), 1 $ ; Nigeria, Onitsha ; Cameroons, 

 (Rutherford), 1 2; Congo (Curror), 1$; Br. E. Africa, Wadelai 

 (Emin Pasha^, 1 2, Victoria Nyanza (Hanniwiton), 1 5, 

 Takaungu, Machakos {Craivsliay), 4 c^ ; Br. C. Africa, Fwambo 

 (Carson), 1 c? ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (MarsJiaU), 7^,3$. 

 Exp., d 42-48, 2 48-54 miUim. 



1731. Diacrisia melanostigma. 



Spi/osoma melanostigma, Ersch. Hor. Ent. Eoss. riii. p. 316 (1872) ; id. 

 Fedchenko's Reisij, Lep. p. 33, pi. 2. f. 30 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 239. 



S • Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi, sides of frons, and 

 antenna) black; patagia and vertex of thorax striped with black ; 

 femora orange above, theii' extremities and stripes on fore tibiae 

 and tarsi and rings on mid and hind tarsi black ; abdomen pale 

 orange above, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black points, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing ochreous white; a black 

 streak on base of costa to near middle ; a short antemedial streak 

 below vein 1 ; a spot in middle of cell ; a short streak above middle 

 of vein 1 and a point below it ; a point in upper angle of cell and 

 two at lower angle ; two obliquely placed points from costa just 

 beyond the cell ; five postmedial points below costa ; an oblique 

 series of eight points from apex ; subterminal points on each side of 

 veins 3 to 5, and u point on termen at vein 1 . Hind wing yellowish 

 white with a discoidal poijit, and subterminal points on each side of 

 vein 1. 



Hah. C. AsfA, Turan, Samarkand, 7000 ft. (Ilaherhauer), 1 ^. 

 Exp. 46 mUlim. 



