284 ARCTIAD^. 



1745. Diacrisia rubitincta. (Plate XLV, fig. 20.) 



Spilosonm rubitincta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 809 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



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

 Icamhosidci jnmdilinea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 40 (1879) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 232. 



S . Head yellow, wliitisli on vertex ; palpi black at sides, 

 crimson below : antenna black ; throat and fore coxas crimson, legs 

 streaked with black ; abdomen crimson above, clothed with long hair, 

 yellow and white at base and extremity, white below, and with 

 dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black points. Fore wing 

 orange tinged with crimson : an oblique yellowish postmedial line 

 from vein 5 to inner margin, and with more or less complete series 

 of fuscous spots on it. Hind wing white, with discoidal fuscous 

 spot ; subterminal spots on each side of vein 5, and three towards 

 tornus sometimes present. 



Ab. 1. punctilinea. Much paler. 



Hah. SiKHiM {RiisseJl, Lidderdale, Dudgeon), 5 J type. Exp. 46 

 millim. 



♦1746. Diacrisia erythropMeps. (Plate XLV. fig. 13.) 



Spilosoma erytJirophlcps, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 8 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax orange-red ; palpi, frons, and antennae 

 dark bro\^-n ; tegulse and patagia with black points ; sides of pectus, 

 tibia?, and tarsi fuscous ; abdomen orange-red, with dorsal black 

 bands and patch on terminal segment ; the ventral surface yellowish 

 white, with lateral, sublateral, and ventral series of black spots and 

 streak on terminal segment. Fore wing orange-red, with the veins 

 scarlet ; a fuscous fascia from base through the cell to termen ; 

 curved antemedial and medial series of spots, and three spots be- 

 tween them from costa to middle of cell ; a postmedial series of 

 which the spots at upper angle and below lower end are large ; a 

 subterminal series of elongate spots ; a terminal series of which the 

 spots above veins 2 and 5 are very long and those above 4 and 6 rather 

 long. Hind wing yellowish white ; medial and postmedial series of 

 fuscous spots, those in and beyond cell conjoined into an irregular 

 patch ; a subterminal series of spots above and below vein 5 and 

 four between vein 3 and tornus ; some spots on termen between 

 vein 3 and apex, some of which are lunulate. 



Hah. Assam, Naga Hills, 6000 feet {Doherty), type S in C^'oll« 

 Elwes. Exp. 32 millim. 



1747. Diacrisia bifasciata. (Plate XLV. fig. 12.) 



Spilarctia bifasciata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 231. 



S. Buif: palpi crimson at base, black at tips; lower part of 

 frons and antenna? black ; fore coxoe and femora above crimson, the 

 former with black spot ; extremity of femora, tibiae, and tarsi black ; 

 abdomen crimson above except at base and extremity, with dorsal, 



