DIACRISIA. 1517 



1817. Diacrisia niceta. 



Bomb//x nice/a, StoW, Paih Exol. iv. j.l. 3(>S, C (1782); Kirby, Cat. Hot. 



p. 912. 

 Spilosojna metarhoda, Wlk. vii. 1695 (185G) ; Swinh. Cat. Ilet. Miis. Oxon. 



p. 184 ; Kirby, Cat. llet. j). 230. 

 Arctia eocjcna, Wlk. xxxi. 280 (18(>4) : Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 

 Areas hjpcrrhoda, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5j x. p. 159 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. llet. 



p. 254. 

 Areas semirosea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xix. p. 217 (1887) ; Kii-bv, Cat. Het. 



p. 254. 



Head and thorax orange ; palpi crimsou, the 3rd joint black ; 

 frous tinged with crimson ; anteniue black ; pectus, coxa), and femora 

 crimson, the rest of lef;s black ; abdomen crimson, with dorsal, 

 lateral, and sublatcral series of black spots. Pore wing orange or 

 ochreous, with the interspaces brownish ; a black point at base 

 almost always present ; an antcmedial black spot above vein 1 

 usually present ; a spot in end of cell almost always present ; three 



Fig. 143. — Diaci-isia niceta, J . {■ 



spots between vein 2 and inner margin, sometimes reduced to two- 

 or one or absent. Hind wing deep crimson, with black discoidal 

 spot usually large ; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing crimson. 



Fore wing often with vein 10 anastomosing with 11. 



Ilah. PuiLiPPiNEs, Manilla, type t metarhoda in Mus. Oxou. ; Eat- 

 CHIAN ( Wallace), type f eogena in Mus. Oxon. ; Amboina ; Gilolo ; 

 MiTsoL; Ternate ; I) oTi^Y (Wallace) ; N. Guinea, Kapaur (Z>o7te?-/y), 

 1 (^ , 1 $ ; LouisiADEs, St. Aignan {Meek), 1 c? , 1 ? ; j^J^. Ireland 

 (Cr. Brown), 1 § ; jST. Britain, 1 c? ; Solomon Is. {Woodford, 

 Matliew), 3 J type semirosea ; Duke of York Is. {Mathew), 2 2 

 type hyporhoda. Exp., S 5<), 2 60 millim. 



1818. Diacrisia nebulosa. 



JRki/parioides nebulosa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. T.OCi (1877) ; id. 111. Het. 



iJ. M. ii. p. 5, pi. 23. f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 2.'^). 

 Ehi/parioidcs i^implicior, Butl. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1881, p. G ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 250. 



Head and thorax fulvous yellow ; palpi, frous, and antenna* 

 black-1)ro\vii, the ])alpi scarlet Ix'low ; pectus imd logs scarlet, the 

 latter streaked with brown ; altdoiiieii scarlet, with dorsal and 

 lateral series of black spots. Fore wing fulvous yelloAV, the inner 



