306 AECTIAD^. 



base, black at tips ; frons black ; thorax with black dorsal s^tripe ; 

 legs blackish, femora crimson above ; abdon)en crimson above, with 

 dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface pale buff. Fore wing brown-buff, the veins paler ; a black 

 point at base of costa ; an antemedial spot on costa with point below 

 it, and obliquely placed spots above and below vein 1 ; a postmedial 

 spot on costa, and obliquel}- curved series of almost conjoined spots 

 from vein 5 to inner margin, larger towards the margin ; an oblique 

 series of small spots from apex to below vein 6 and points on each 

 side of veins 5 to 3 and above 1. Hind wing buff tinged with 

 erimson, most strongly on inner area ; subterminal black spots at 

 veins 5, 2, and 1. 



Hah. Ceiebes, Lakka, type t S in Coll. Snellen. Exp. 44 millim. 



1794. Diacrisia strigatiila. 



Spilosoma sfrigufula, Wlk. iii. 013 (185o) ; TVToore, Lep. E. I. C. j). 357, 

 pi. 9a. ff. 12, 12«: Semp. Schmett. Phil. ii. ii. 484, pi. Ivii. ff 10 ll' 

 pi. P. ff. 10, 11; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 250. • • > 



Spilosoma ruhcscens. Wlk. iii. 677 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 250. 



CheJonia cervina, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 102 (1864) • Kirbv Cat 

 Het. p. 250. 



S. Antennas with the branches long ; brown-buff; palpi, lower 

 part of frons, often a stripe on vertex of thorax, and the greater 

 part of legs dark brown ; fore coxae and femora above crimson ; 

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

 and sublateral series of black points. Fore wing with black point 

 at base ; an antemedial series of black points, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure where it is angled, and ofteu with a black point 

 before it below median nervure ; black points in angles of cell and 

 beyond lower angle ; a postmedial series of black points on each 

 side of the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, and 

 with another more regularly curved series beyond it ; a subterminal 

 series of points on each side of the veins, obsolete below vein 3, and 

 a series on the cilia. Hind wing orange-scarlet ; a black discoidal 

 spot ; a subterminal series of irregular spots, the two towards 

 tornus larger. Underside of fore wing with the disk tinged with 

 scarlet. 



2 . Fore wing with the series of points usually more or less 

 obsolete, often totally absent. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing without black spots ; al)domen without black 

 points. 



Hah. Burma, Moulmein (Clerl-), 1 c? , 1 2 , type rubescens; Penang 

 (S. Floiver), 2 5 ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace, Bartlett), 2 J . 3 ? , 

 S.E. Borneo (Do7ierty\ 1 $ ; Java (Hors/ield), 7 J , 6 9 ' type. 

 Exp., c? 42, 2 56 miilim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 358, pi. 16. ff. 11. 1 W/. 

 Black ; the warts scarlet with tufts of hair red towards base, 

 brown at tips. Food-plants, Dioscorea opjwsitifolia, etc. 

 Cocoon dark brown. 



