266 ARCTIAD^. 



CoiMBATORE (Walhouse), 1 d type subjecta, 1 $ type spilosomata. 

 Exp., S 32, $ 42 millim. 



1705. Diacrisia melanosoma. (Plate XLIY. fig. 3.) 



Thyrgorina melanosoma, Hmpsn. Moths Incl. ii. p. 15 (1894), 



(S . Pure white ; palpi black above, orange below ; frons black 

 at sides ; antennae brown ; shoulders with orange or orange-crimson 

 patches ; fore coxae orange; legs striped with black above; abdomen 

 white banded with black above, or more or less orange above with 

 the bands reduced to spots or sometimes obsolete ; wings sometimes 

 immaculate. Pore wing sometimes with oblique postmedial series 

 of fuscous spots from vein 5 to 2 and some subterminal short streaks 

 on each side of veins 6 to 8. Hind wing sometimes with discoidal 

 fuscous spot, and subterminal spot above vein 5 and one to four 

 towards tornus. 



Eab. W. China, Washan (Pratt), 1 $ ; N.W. Himalayas, Simla 

 (Harford), 2d, 4 $ , Dalhousie (Harford), 3 cT , 2 ^ , Murree, 



1 <^, Abbotabad (Yerhury), 1 $ , Kulu (G. Young), 1 $ ; Sikhim, 



2 d* , 1 5 ; Assam, Khasis. Exp., ^ 36, 2 46 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Elwes. 



1706. Diacrisia latipennis. 



Sjoilosoma latipennis, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 133, pi. 6. f. 5 

 (1872) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 229. 



5 . Pure white ; antennae with the branches black ; fore coxae 

 and femora above pink, the tibia and tarsus streaked with black ; 

 wings thinly scaled. 



Hab. U.S.A., Atlantic States, Grote CoU., 1 $ . Exp,, S 40, 

 5 46 millim. 



Egg. Soule, Psyche, vii. p. 71. 



Hemispherical, flattened at base ; yellowish white. 



Larva. Young : Pale yellowish with long blackish hair ; head 

 with lateral dark spots, the mouth-parts pinkish ; three dorsal 

 series of dark warts and a dark spot on 10th somite. 



Stages 2, 3. Without dark warts or spots except on head ; the 

 hair white, black on dorsum. 



Stage 4. Interrupted subdorsal and lateral series of grey points ; 

 warts pale yellow, with a bright yellow one on each side of 10th 

 somite ; hair longer anteriorly and posteriorly. 



Stage 5. Body grey, with darker subdorsal and lateral lines ; 

 warts on 10th somite pale yellow and prominent, elsewhere grey ; 

 hairs grey with a few white ones at extremities. 



Stage 6. Hairs tan-coloured with a few long black ones ; spiracles 

 white, largest on 10th somite. 



Stage 7. Head yellow-brown with dark brown upper half ; body 

 dark velvety brown ; hair black, tan towards base ; spiracles very 

 prominent, white. 



