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c. Forewing with fuscous streaks in the interspaces. 



a\ Hindwing black with yellow streaks on the veins .. .. scita. 

 6^ Hindwing yellow. 



a^. Forewing with the fuscous streaks almost filling the 



interspaces rhodesiana. 



If. Forewing with the fuscous streaks narrow except in' 



discal and submedian folds lutescens. 



d. Forewing with discoidal spot only .- lucida. 



e. Forewing immaculate flava. 



(1) DiACRisiA MACULOSA, Stoll. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 370 B. (1781). 

 Ecpantheria assimilis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 183 (1827). 



,, indetermindta, Wlk. iii. 697 (1855). 



Spilosoma imnctulatum, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 161 (1860). 

 Halesidota macularia, Wlk. xxxi. 314 (1864). 

 Hah. Sierra Leone ; British. East Africa, Machakos ; Mashona- 

 land, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. <? 42, ? 50 mill. 



(2) DiACRisiA AURiciNCTA, Butl. P.Z.S. 1896, p. 847, pi. 42, f. 6. 

 Hah. Nyasaland; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 



48 niill. 



(3)^ DiACKisiA LiNEATA, Wlk. iii. 672 (1855). 

 Aha simplex, Wlk. iii. 699 (1855). 



Scemcra alha, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 162 (1860). 

 Spilarctia puella, Druce, A.M.N.S. (7) 1, p. 210 (1898). 

 Hah. British East Africa ; Lake N' garni (Lugard) ; Delagoa 



Bay (Junod) ; ' Natal (Gueinzius, Gooch) ; Cape Colony 



(Trimen). Exp. 38-48 mill. 



(4) DiACBisiA scoETiLLA, Wllgrn. (Efv, Vet. Akad. Eorh, xxxii. (1) 



p. 101 (1876). 

 Aha nigricosta, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 398 (1893). 

 Hah. West Africa, Ogove Eiver ; Transvaal ; Natal, Mooi River. 

 Exp. 30-36 mill. 



(5) DiACEISIA CHIONEA, n. Sp. 



? . Head pale yellow ; palpi above and antennae black ; thorax 

 white, sides of pectus, fore coxae and femora above pale yellow, the 

 fore coxae with brown patches, tibiae and tarsi above black ; abdomen 

 orange with dorsal series of black spots, and lateral series of points, 

 the ventral surface whitish. Forewing pure white. Hindwing orange- 

 yellow. 



Hah. Natal, Weenen. Exp. 44 mill. 



