290 AECTIABJE. 



Spihsnma howqua, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 88 (1877) ; Butl. 111. Het. 



B. M. vii. p. 28, pi. 122. f. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 231. 

 Spilarctia howra, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 40 (1879) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 232. 

 Spilarctia dalberqics, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888. p. 394 : Butl. 111. Het. B. M. 



Tii. p. 28, pi. 122. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 231. 

 Spilarctia hifascia, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. IM. viii. p. oo, pi. 140. f. 21 (1891) : 



id. Moths' Ind. ii. p. 9 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 

 Spilosoma hisecta, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soe. 1899, p. 148 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 230. 



S . Pale buff ; palpi black above aud at extremity, crimson at 

 base ; sides of frons usually and antenna) black ; thorax sometimes 

 with black stripe on vertex ; legs mostly black, the fore coxae and 

 femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson above except at base and 

 extremity, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. 

 Tore wing often with antemedial black point above vein 1 and 

 point at upper angle of cell ; an oblique postmedial series of slight 

 striai on each side of veins 4 to 1 and others towards apex on each 

 side of veins 6, 7; subterminal points on each side of veins 3, 4, 5. 

 Hind wing paler ; a black discoidal spot ; a subterminal series 

 formed b}' spots on each side of veins 7, 5, 2, and 1 , those towards 

 apex often obsolete. Underside of fore wing with the postmedial 

 maculate band curved round to costa, the basal half sometimes 

 tinged slightly with crimson. 



$ . Both wings with the spots usually more or less obsolete, one 

 specimen from Bhutan being unmarked except for the discal spot 

 of hind wing. 



Ab. 1. Strongly tinged with yellow-brown. — Hai-niug. 

 Ab. 2. dalberr/ice. Abdomen of female orange-yellow. — Kangra. 

 Ab. 3. Hind wing with the inner area tinged with crimson ; 

 underside of fore wing suffused with crimson except towards apex. — 

 Hongkong, Foochow. 



Ab. 4. coiifusa. Hind wing above wholly, and sometimes the 

 fore wing above tinged with crimson. — Bombay, Travancore, 

 Burma. 



Ab, 5. bifascia. Fore wing with the series of spots more complete; 

 underside with black fascia in and below ceU and two postmedial 

 bands. — Nilgiris. 



Ab. 6. todara. Head, thorax, and fore wing of male strongly 

 tinged with red-brown, the hind wing Avith crimson. Female : 

 abdomen orange above ; wings whitish ochreous with the black 

 markings reduced. — Nilgiris. 



Hah. -Japan, Hakodate, types $ lone and mollicida, Nagasaki 

 {Leech), 1 <S type hisecta, Yokohama {Manley, Fryer), 4 5 , Tokio 

 (Fenton), 2 $ ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 3 $ ; China, Shanghai 

 (Fryer), 3 d , 1 5 , types howqua and raandarina, Omei-shau, 2 5 . 

 Chia-kou-ho (Fratt), 1 5 , Moupin (Kricheldorff), 1 $ , Hai-ning, 

 1 $ , Hongkong (J. J. Walker), 1 S , Foochow (Leech) 1 6 , {d& ?« 

 Tonche) 1 5, Swatow, 1 $ ; N. India, 3 J, 1 $, type and type 

 confusa ; Kangka (Hocling), 1 c? , 3 5 > type dalbergice ; Nepal, 



