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1703. Diacrisia multivittata. (Plate XLIV. fig. 22.) 



Spilosoma multivittata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 808 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 12; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 233. 



White with a slight yellowish tinge ; palpi and lower part of 

 frons black ; antennae black ; shoulders with orange patches ; legs 

 black above ; abdomen orange above except at base and extremity, 

 dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Eore wing with 

 oblique subbasal series of black spots expanding on costa ; an ante- 

 medial maculate band, expanding at costa and acutely angled on 

 median nervure ; a spot in upper angle of cell ; a postmedial 

 maculate band angled beyond lower end of cell, where it is con- 

 nected with apex by an oblique series of spots, three spots beyond 

 it between vein 2 and inner margin, and short subtermiual streaks 

 on each side of veins 5 to 3 and two points towards tornus. Hind 

 wing with discoidal spot ; subterminal spots below costa, above 

 vein 5, and four towards tornus, or a complete series. 



Ab. 1. Frons only black at sides; shoulders with small yellow 

 patches ; wings immaculate. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Russell), 1 S type ; (Lidderdale, Dudgeon) 4 S > 

 3 2 ' Exxj., S 38, 2 44 millim. 



1704. Diacrisia indica. 



Arctia indica, Guer. Deless. Souv. Inde, ii. p. 93 (1843) ; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 12 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 230. 

 Thyrgorina spilosomata, Wlk. xxxi. 318 (1864) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 233. 

 Echlida subjecta, Wlk. xxxii. 387 (1865) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 233. 



(5 . White with a slight yellowish tinge ; palpi, sides of frons, 



and antennae blackish ; shoulders with yellow patches ; legs striped 



with black above ; abdomen orange above, 



with some whitish hair at base, dorsal 



and lateral series of black points. Fore 



wing with the basal half of costa black, 



the terminal half yellowish ; a curved 



antemedial series of spots; a spot in 



Fig. 140. upper angle of cell, forming part of a 



Diacrisia mdicaS- h postmedial series angled beyond lower 



(FromMothsInd.vol.il.) ^ -, i? n .i ^^• ^^ • ^ 



end 01 cell, then oblique ; a subterminal 



series of spots curved out to tornus and with the spot above vein 5 



elongate. Hind wing with discoidal spots ; a subterminal spot 



above vein 5 and four towards tornus. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the spots in the series reduced to those 

 towards costa and inner margin. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the spots reduced to one in upper angle 

 of cell. 



$ . Fore wing with the spots more or less reduced. 



Ab. 3. spilosomata. Wings immaculate. 



Hah. Bombay (Leith), 2 S ; Nilgiris {Hampson\ 3 d , 4 $ ; 



