DIACRISIA. 307 



17:'."). Diacrisia landaca. (Plate XLVI. fig. 22.) 



Arrtia landaca, iloore, Lep. !•:. I. C. y^. 358 (1859): Kirby, Cut. Ilet. 

 p. I'oO. 



J . Head and tliorax dark fuscous brown to yellow-brown; palpi 

 and frons blackish, antenna? whitish with black patch beyond 

 middle; Ic^js blackish, the femora crimson above; abdomen crimson 

 at sides and extremity, the dorsal and ventral surface dark brown ; 

 wings greyish or yellow, thickly irrorated and suffused with dark 

 brown. Fore wing with an antemedial black spot on costa, with 

 traces of a waved dark line arising from it, obli(iue to median 

 nervure, where it is strongly angled ; indistinct oblique minutely 

 Avaved medial and two postmedial lines ; traces of subterminal 

 black points between veins W and 5. Hind wing with discoidal 

 spot; an indistinct curved postmedial line and a more distinct 

 subterminal maculate band. 



Hah. Java {HorsJieJd), 1 c? , 1 $ type, Arjuno iiOUO ft. (Z)o7ierf^), 

 4 (S • Exp. 42 millim. 



179(i. Diacrisia vagans. 



Arctia vagans, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2) s. p. 322 (1852) ; Stretch, 



Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 1!)2, pi. 8. ff. 8-12 ; Kirby. Cat. Het. p. 246. 

 Nemcophila riifula, Boisd. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (.3) iii. ]:>. 32 (1855). 

 Antarctia punctata. Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 123 (18B4). 

 Spilosoma pfcridis, H. Edw. Proc. Calif. Acad. v. p. 204 (1875). 

 Antarctia punctata, var. proba, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 39 (1881). 



(^ . Ochreous grey, sometimes tinged with I'eddish brown or 

 fuscous ; palpi blackish ; antenna! with the shaft whitish, the 

 branches black. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; two dai'k 

 discoidal points sometimes placed on a dark line which is oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; the postmedial 

 line excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved ; a sub- 

 terminal point above vein 5 sometimes present. Hind wing more 

 or less suffused with fuscous, leaving the terraen pale ; a fuscous 

 discoidal lunule and some subterminal spots. 



5 . Ground-colour much more rufous ; antenna) with the slialt 

 tinged with red above. 



//«6. U.S.A., California, Grote Coll. {Stretch), 2S 6 , 2$. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



17i)7. Diacrisia rubra. (Plate XLVI. fig. 7.) 



Antarctia rubra, Nenm. Pa])ilio, i. p. 79 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 240. 

 Antarctia wahiin/hami, Biitl. A. M. N. II. (5) viii. p. 311 (1881); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 24(). 

 Antarctia ru/ira, var. danhiji, Ent. News, iv. p. 141 (1893). 



S • Head and thorax scarlet or red-brown ; antenme with the 

 fihaft scarlet, the branches black ; legs scarlet ; abdomen ochreous 

 tinged with scarlet. Fore wing red-brown, tinged with scarlet and 

 irrorated with black; a medial black band sometimes present, 



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