DIA.CRISIA. 295 



1768. Diacrisia costata. 



Chelonia costata, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 213, pi. 5. f. 6 (1832). 



Orange-yellow ; palpi at sides and antenna; black ; legs striped 

 with black ; abdomen with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series 

 of black spots except at base and extremity. Fore wing with the 

 veins streaked with black. 



Hah. New Ireland; Duke of York Is., 2 J,! $. Exp., S 46, 

 $ 60 millim. 



*I769. Diacrisia pelopea. 



Eiich<etes pelopea, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 393, pi. 77. f. 8 

 (1897). 



5 . Head orange : palpi black towards tips ; antennae black 

 except at base ; thorax yellowish Avhite, the tegulte except at base, 

 and outer side of patagia orange ; coxae orange ; legs fuscous black 

 and yellowish white ; abdomen orange, with dorsal, lateral, and 

 sublateral series of black points, the base of dorsum and ventral 

 surface yellowish white. Fore wing yellow'ish white ; the basal 

 half of costal edge black; vein 1, the naedian nervure, veins 2, 3, 4, 

 5, 6, 7, and extremity of 8 with fine black streaks. Hind wing 

 yellowish, with terminal series of black points. 



Hah. I\Iexico, Guadalajara, 1 5 type t in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



1770. Diacrisia lutescens. (Plate XLV. fig. 7.) 



Splldsoma lutescenx, Wlk. iii. <)72 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 243. 

 Halemdota mundata, Wlk. xxxi. 309 (1864). 



Binna penwillata, Wlk. xxxi. 319 (1804); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 241. 

 Spilosoma screahile, WUgru. CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xxxii. (1) p. 102 

 (1876). 



Orange-yellow ; head orange, or lower part of frons grey, or head 

 grey with orange band behind ; palpi blackish, orange below ; 

 antenmc blackish ; tegular and patagia grey, edged with orange; vertex 

 of thorax grey : tibia^ and tarsi fuscous grey above ; al)domen with 

 dorsal and lateral series of short black bands or spots, the ventral 

 surface pale. Fore wing with the interspaces paler, more or less 

 strongly developed grey streaks in and below cell and above veins 2 

 and 5, or in all the terminal interspaces, often hardly traceable. 

 Hind wing often whitish except inner area. 



Ab. 1 . mundata. Thorax and fore wing almost white, the latter 

 with the costa and cilia yellow. 



Hah. Sierra Leone (Alorr/an, Foxcroft), 3 c? , type and types 

 mundata and jiiiiiciUata ; Old Calahar {Miss Kingsli'i/), 1 c? , 1 5 ; 

 Bk. E. AiiiicA, Kikuyu, Nairobi {Crawshai/), 1 J ; ^NFasiionaland, 

 Salisbury {Marshall), 4 S ; Natal (Gooch), 3 $ , Durban {Boivher), 

 1 J , 1 9 , Karkloof (Marshall), 1 c? • ^-'t-p- 38-56 millim. 



