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Spilarctia i cognata. 



Spilosuma cui/uata, AValker, Charact. Lep. Het., p. 11, (1869). 

 Habi 



Mr. Walker could hardly have chosen a less appropriate name 

 for this species : in publishing descriptions of so many Lepidoptera 

 from Norris' and other collections, nearly all without localities, 

 this author unnecessarily burdened the synomymy with scores of 

 names, the species referable to which will most of them probably 

 never be cognate. 



Sijilarctla ohllqaa. 



Si>!h>.^(>uiH. nhli(pia, Walker, Lep. Het. 3, p. 679, n. 34, (1855). 

 % , Sydney, ^ , $ , Xew South Wales. B.M. 



Spilarctia injdla, it. sp. 



Cream coloured, abdomen crimson, with dorsal and lateral 

 series of black spots ; primaries with a lilack spot near base of 

 submedian nervure, and two or three in an obli({ue series from 

 the internal margin beyond the middle of the wing ; secondaries 

 with a black spot at end of cell, three large black spots placed 

 obliquely towards anal angle, and two smaller a^jical submarginal 

 spots ; upper surface of palpi and femora, coxae and anterior 

 margin of thorax, carmine ; frons, tips of palpi, tibite, and tarsi, 

 dark brown ; venter with lateral series of black spots ; primaries 

 with a large black spot at end of cell, and an oblique streak from 

 inner margin to near apex ; secondaries as above : expanse of 

 wings 2 inches, 5 lines. 



Nepal. B.M. 



Spllardla lone, ii. t^p. 



^ . Creamy -white, abdomen rosy, with dorsal and lateral 

 blackish dots, anal segments ochraceous ; antennee black ; second- 

 aries with a small black spot at end of cell, a second smaller, on 

 discoidal interspace towards outer margin, and two near anal 

 angle ; frons, tips of palpi, tibiae and tarsi black-brown ; ante- 

 rior lateral margin of pectus and femora, carmine ; venter with a 

 few lateral blackish points ; primaries below with a blackish spot 

 at end of cell, a few dots near apex, an oblique streak from 

 interno-median to discoidal interspace, and a nebulous longitudi- 

 nal interno-median patch, greyish brown : secondaries with the 

 blackish spots less distinct than above : expanse of wings 1 inch, 

 10 lines. 



Hakodadi, Japan, (IF/iife///). K.M. 



