292 AECIIAD^. 



1759. Diacrisia multiguttata. 



Hypcrcompa multiguttata, Wlk. iii. 667 (1855) ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii 



p. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 239. 

 Beiopeia spUosomoidps, Wlk. xxxi. 263 (1864); Butl. lU. Het. B M v 



p. 30, pi. 85. f. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 239. 

 Beiopeia pardalina, Wlk. xxxi. 263 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 350. 



6 . Head and thorax white ; palpi black, fringed with yellowish 

 white below ; sides of frons and antenua3 black ; tegul®, shoulders, 

 and patagia with black spots ; fore coxae with black spots, legs 

 striped with black ; abdomen orange-yellow, with dorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of black spots. Pore wing white ; a basal and 

 two subbasal black spots ; an antemedial series of five spots, the 

 one below the cell displaced outwards : a medial series strongly 

 angled outwards in lower end of cell ; spots on each side of disco- 

 cellulars ; two postmedial series, the 1st bent inwards to costa and 

 excurved beyond lower angle of cell, the 2nd excurved at middle 

 and incurved below costa and vein 3 ; a subtermiual series of short 

 streaks on each side of the veins incurved below costa and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing yeUow,. 

 with discoidal black spot, sometimes some spots of the postmedial 

 series present between vein 2 and submedian fold ; a subtermiual 

 series of spots interrupted at middle : some terminal spots towards 

 apex, 



2 . Hind wing with the spots large, the series more complete, a 

 medial series present. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas, Simla (Harford), 2 c?, 2 $ , Kashmir 

 Jawi, 1 cJ, (Strachey) 2 S type spilosomoides, Kulu {G. Young), 

 2 c?, 2 2; Nepal {Hardividce), 2 S type; Sikhiji {Lidderdale), 

 2 $; BrR3iA, Myingyan (]T7<;so?i). 1 d; Cambodia, ty]^e pardalina 

 in Mus. Oxon. E,i-i)., J 32-40, $ 42-60 millim. 



Larva. Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 120, pi. 138. f. 9. 



Pale green blotched and streaked with white, with sparse black 

 and white hairs ; a dorsal series of tufts of red-brown hair on 

 a stripe formed by black specks. 



1760. Diacrisia diplosticha. (Plate XLV. fig. 22.) 



Spilosmm, diplosticha, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 57 (1900). 



S . Ochreous yellow ; palpi above and antennae black; patagia with 

 black points ; fore coxae and femora, mid tibiae and the tarsi black 

 above, hind tibiae with a spot on outer side and the spurs black. 

 Pore wing with antemedial series of three points angled on median 

 nervure ; a medial series of points acutely angled on median 

 nervure, the spots towards costa and inner margin larger • two 

 points just beyond discocellulars and three at lower angle of'eeU: 

 a postmedial series consisting of pairs of points on each side of the 

 veins, strongly excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved. Hind 

 wing orange-yellow, with black discoidal spot. 



2 . Fore wing with the points at lower angle of cell only. 



Hah. Natal, Karkloof (MarsJiall), 1 ^ type. Exp. 42 millim. 



