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Local distribution. — I have taken segrota and adaucta in the 

 following localities : Honshu : Nikko, Shimotsuke Province, June ; 

 Tokyo, Musashi Province, May; Oyama, Sagami Province, May; 

 Tennokawa, Yoshino, and Obatani, Yamato Province, June and 

 July; Takami Toge (Pass), Ise Province, October. Kyushu: 

 Kimbo-san, Kosadake, Haramachi, Higo Province, May, June, 

 and July; Kagoshima, Satsuma Province, July. Hokkaido 

 (Yezo) : Junsai Numa, Oshima Province, July; Jozankei, Ishi- 

 kari Province, August; Teshiwo, Teshiwo Province, July. 



This species is common in most places in Japan. I found it 

 especially abundant at Jozankei, near Sapporo, Hokkaido, in 

 August, 1896. 



Matsumura records the species from Hokkaido, Honshu, and 

 Kyushu ; and Miyake records it from the same islands. He gives 

 the time of appearance as July and August and says that it is 

 common in Hokkaido and not common in Tokyo, Honshu, so that 

 it is evidently more abundant in the extreme north of Japan. 



Ti77ie of appearance. — Larva, May; imago, June, July, August, 

 September, October. 



General distribution. — Europe ; Altai ; eastern Siberia (Amur- 

 land) ; Japan; northern China; Tibet; Nepal; Sikkim; Manipur; 

 Yunnan; Borneo; western Africa (Hampson) ; Korea (Matsu- 

 mura, Miyake). 



This moth also occurs outside the Palsearctic Region: for 

 example, as lilacina Moore and fuscicilia Hampson, in India; as 

 serva Walker, in the Malay Archipelago (and Japan?) ; and as 

 subumbrata, in West Africa. (Seitz.) 



AUCTUBJE 



arctiin/e 



Genus DIACRISIA Hubner 



Diacrisia HiJBNER, Verz. (1827), 169. 



Diacrisia subcarnea Walker. 



Plate II, fig. 1, larva. 



Japanese names, ohi-hiiori, hara-aka-hitori. 



Spilosoma subcarnea Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. (1855), 3, 675; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. 232; Butler, 111. Typ. Het. Lep. (1879), 3, 6, PI. 42, fig. 

 8; Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1888), 619, No. 188; Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. London (1899), 149, No. 490; Hampson, Cat. Lep. 

 Phal. (1901), 3, 315; Matsumura, Cat. Insect. Jap. (1905), 1, 172, 

 No. 1446; Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1105), 28, 944; Miyake, 

 Bull. Coll. Agr., Tokyo Imp. Univ. (1909), 8, No. 2, 161; Seitz, 

 Macrolep. Faun. Pal. (1910), 2, 86, PI. 15 d; Matsumura, Thousand 



