THYKGORINA. ARCTTA. 15 



medial band and submarginal series of spots. Hind wing: with a 

 spot at end of cell and a submarginal series of spots, those towards 

 anal angle largest, the middle spot minute. 

 Hob. Canara. Exp. 30 millim. 



1199. Thyrgorina rhodophila, Wlk. Cat. xxxi,p. 294; Butl 111 Het. 



v, pi. 85, %. 4 ; C. % & no. 769. 

 Spilosoma rubidorsa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 808. 

 Icambosida dorsalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 394; C. 8f S. 



no. 861 A. 



c? . Differs from muhivittata in the shoulder and pectus being 

 crimson; palpi fringed with crimson; abdomen bright crimson. 

 Wings pure white. Pore wing with cmly the oblique maculate 

 band from the apex to inner margin and the submarginal spots 

 between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with the spot at end of cell 

 and submarginal series obsolescent. 



$ . The basal and terminal segments of abdomen pure white ; 

 the medial crimson segments with a prominent dorsal series of 

 black spots. 



Larva. Head red-brown ; dorsal area dark brown, with a series 

 of white streaks on the vertex ; lateral area pale brown, with pale 

 streaks and tufts of long hair arising from yellow papillae. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Nagas ; Manipur. Exp. 42 

 milliin. 



C. Abdomen black. 



1200. Thyrgorina melanosoma, n. sp. 



Differs from indica in the abdomen being black ringed with 

 white, the basal segment clothed with white hair, the others slightly 

 fringed with white ; anal tuft ochreous. Wings with hardly a 

 trace of markings. 



Hob. Kulu (G. Young} ; Sikhim (Holler) ; Khasis (Elwes). 

 Exp. 46 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus ARCTIA. 



Arctia, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, p. 152 (1802). 



Euprepia, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iii, p. 299 (1810). 



Alope, Wlk. Cat. iii, p. 619 (1855). i^c-a UwCj* ^ 1 &U7 



Gonerda, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 395. 



Type, A. villica, Linn., from Europe. 



Ranye. N. America ; Palaearctic region ; Himalayas ; through- 

 out India and Ceylon ; Assam. 



Palpi porrect, reaching beyond the frons, the first two joints 

 fringed with hair. Antennae bipectinated in male, the branches 

 short, swollen at extremity, and with a terminal bristle, serrate in 

 female. Legs hairy ; hind tibia3 with two pairs of spurs. Fore 

 wing rather short and broad. Venation as in Spilosoma. 



