DIACRISIA. 



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1751. Diamsia canescens. (Plate XLV. fig. 4.) 



Spiloiioma obliqiia, Wlk. 

 Ardicrf! canescens, Butl 

 p. L'39. 



Yellowish white 

 frons and antennae 

 black-brown stripe 

 blackish, fore coxie 



iii. (iTU (1855), 

 Cist. Eiit. ii. 



(nee c?)- 

 29 (1875); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. 



paly)i scarlet, the 3rd joint black ; sides of 

 black ; neck scarlet at sides ; shoulders with 

 with scarlet upper edge ; legs striped with 

 blackish edged with scarlet, the femora scarlet 

 above ; abdomen scarlet above, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing with black-brown spot on base of 

 costa ; an antemedial maculate line verj- oblicjue from costa to 

 median nervure, where it is acutely angled, then represented by 

 spots on each side of vein 2 and above vein 1 ; a point in upper angle 

 of cell ; a maculate postmedial line, excurved from below costa to 

 vein 3, where it is joined by an oblique series of irregular spots 

 from apes, then oblique ; a subterminal series of points on each 

 side of veins 5 to 3 ; some points on medial part of termen and at 

 tornus ; some points sometimes present on inner area beyond the 

 postmedial line. Hind wing white ; a discoidal spot ; subteriainal 

 spots on each side of veins 5, 2, and 1, sometimes much reduced. 



Ifab. N. S. Wales, Sydney (Brenchley, Matheiv), G d' , 4 5 , type 

 and type obliqua 5 • Exp,, S 44, 2 54 millim. 



1752. Diacrisia stigmata. 



Spilosoma stigvmta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 809 ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. 



p. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. 

 Spilarctia lactmfa. But!. 111. Het. B.M. v. p. 31, pi. 85. f. 10(1881); 



Htupsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 



Fig. 141. — Diacrisia stigmata, tS • 



(From Moths Ind. vol ii.) 



cJ . Pale buff ; palpi, lower part of frons, antennse, a streak on 

 vertex of thorax, pectus in front, patches on fore coxaj, and stripes 

 on legs black ; fore coxa; at sides and femora above crimson ; 

 abdomen crimson above, clothed with long whitish hair, dorsal, 

 lateral, and sublateral series of black points. Fore wing with short 

 .subbasal black streak in cell and points below costa und cell and 

 above vein 1, often almost aborted ; a medial series of spots angled 

 on median nervure, then strongly incurved and with short streak 

 above inner margin ; an oblique series of short streaks on each side 

 of the veins from apex to vein 5 and usually others on each side of 

 vein 1 ; a subterminal scries of short streaks on each side of veins 3, 



