ARCTIID/E. 179 



Hypercompa leopardina. Walker: iii. 656 (1855). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 126. 



802 (1887). 



Arctia divisa. Walker : iii. 614 (1855). 

 Ardices divisa. Butler : Cist. Ent., ii. p. 28 (1875). 

 Nayaca divisa. Butler : 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., v. p. 33, pi. 86, f. 2 



(1881). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 133. 857 

 (1887). 



Type (divisa). Himalaya Mountains, in B. M. 

 a. India (5). 



GENUS AUDIOES. Walker: iii. 709 (1855). 



823. Ardices pallida. 



Chelonia pallida. Doubleday: Eyre's Discov. Central Austral. App. p. 



438, pi. 5, f- 3(1845). 



Spilosoma subocellahim. Walker: vii. 1697 (1856). 

 Ardices subocellata. Butler: Cist. Ent, ii. p. 28 (1875). 

 Type (subocellatutri). Australia, in B. M. 



a. Queensland (2). b. New Holland. c. Van Diemen's 



Land (4). d. New South Wales (2). e. Australia (2). 



824. Ardices garida. n. sp. : PI. IV. f. 7. 



? Reddish brown ; antennae, palpi, frons, and thorax reddish 

 brown ; head white, thorax with whitish hairs behind and over- 

 lapping part of abdomen which is ochreous with black bands, the 

 first two and last one very broad, the others very narrow, apex 

 ochreous, extreme tip white. Fore-wings reddish brown, some white 

 marks at extreme base, and a white costal sub-apical small spot. 

 Hind-wings white, a large reddish brown spot at end of cell followed 

 by three distorted, irregular macular bands more or less confluent, 

 the 1st close to the spot, 2nd discal, 3rd marginal. Underside, wings 

 as above, an additional pale spot on costa of fore-wings beyond the 

 middle, body white, abdomen with brown bands, legs with reddish 

 brown stripes, tarsi brown with pale bands. 



Expanse of wings ij^j inches. 

 a. Australia (type). 



GENUS ALPENUS. Walker: iii. 686 (1855). 



825. Alpenus multiguttatus. 



Hypercompa multiguttata. Walker: iii. 657 (1855). 

 Alpenus multiguttatus. Butler: Cist. Ent, ii; p. 34 (1875). 



Cotes and Swinh.: Cat Moths of India, ii. 129. 



825 (1887). 

 Butler: 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., vii. p. 120, 



pi. 138, f. 9 (larva) (1889). 



Deiopeia spilosomoides. Walker: xxxi. 263 (1864). 

 Alpenus spilosomoides. Butler : Cist. Ent, ii. p. 34 (1875). 



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