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lateral and siiblateral series of black spots. Fore wing wich black 

 point at base ; highly and rather irregularly waved ante- and post- 

 medial black lines, the latter bent outwards from below costa to 

 vein 4 and sometimes with small spot beyond it above vein ; a 

 discoidal point sometimes present. Hind wing pale yellow, with 

 the inner area orange-yellow in male, uniform orange-yellow in 

 female ; a black discoidal spot. 



Hall. Natal, 1 $ type, Karkloof (Marshall), 1 J . Kq^. oU 

 miUim. 



1814. Diacrisia turbida. 



Spilardia turhida, Butl. A. M. N. If. (.">) x. j). 158 (1882); ragenat. 



Zoologica. xii. (1+2) p. 4',), pi. i. I". 17 : Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 231. 

 SpUarcim mctki, Druce, A. M. IS'. 11. (7) iii. p. "234 (ISU'J). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous wliite ; palpi, lower j)art of 

 frons, and antennae black; tegultc and patagia with black spots ; 

 thorax with black stripe on vertex ; legs blackish, the fore coxae at 

 sides and femora above crimson ; abdomen crimson above, ochreous 

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

 Fore wing ochreous whitish suifused with brown except costal, 

 inner, and terminal areas ; a subbasal black spot below the cell ; 

 an antcmedial maculate band angled on median ncrvure, then 

 oblique ; a whitisli spot at lower angle of cell ; the postmedial black 

 band represented by an oblique black striga in upper angle of cell 

 and three points beyond it, a maculate band from vein 5 to just 

 below vein 2 and a spot above vein 1 ; two stricC below costa towards 

 apex ; an oblique streak from apex to vein 5, some subterminal 

 points from vein 5 to 3, and others further fiom termen on veins 

 2 and 1. Hind wing crimson, with black discoidal spot, a sub- 

 terminal spot above vein 5 and two towards tornus. Underside of 

 fore wing suffused with crimson to beyond middle. 



2 . Thorax tinged with scarlet ; abdomen with large black s])ot 

 and lateral and ventral bands on terminal segment ; fore wing with 

 the ground-colour scarlet, except for some ochreous white on costa, 

 inner margin, and termen ; the veins ochreous ; cilia black except 

 towards tornus ; both wings with the black markings much more 

 developed ; some black marks on apical half of termen and cilia. 



Bab. N. Guinea, Trobriand Is., Kiriwini (Meel-), 1 $ ; Ditkk of 

 York Is., 1 d" type. E\vp., c? 52, § 60 millim. 



1815. Diacrisia subcariiea. 



Spilosoma subcarnea, Wlk. iii. 675 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. IIe(. p. 232. 



Aloa bi frons, Wlk. iii. 705 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 



Aloa leucothurax, Feld. Wion. ent. Moii.'vi. p. 3(5 (I8()2) ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet, 



p. 232. 

 Spilosoma erubcscens, Moore, A. M. N. 11. (4) xx. i). S*,) (1877) • Kirby Cat 



Het. p. 231. 

 SpUosoina rijhukowi, Alpli. Kom. Mum. ix. p. 171, pi. x. f. (1897). 

 Hyarias oherthuri, Semp. Scbniett. Pliil. ii. p. 489 (1899). 



<S . Head and thorax yellowish w4iite ; palpi crimson, ])lack at 



