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at angles of cell ; a few postmedial points ; a subterminal series of 

 points on each side of the veins, incurved below costa ; some points 

 on termen. Hind wing with discoidal spot; subterminal spots 

 below costa and near veins 5 and 2. 



Fore wing with the number of points often much reduced. 



Hah. Japan (Fenton, Jones, Lewis), 3 cT , 3 $ , Yokohama (Manley), 



2 c? , Nagasaki (Leech), 1 c? , 1 $ , Hakodate, 1 $ , Oiwake {Fryer), 

 1 5 ; CoEEA, Gensan (Leach), 1 c? , 1 $ ; China, Shanghai (Fryer), 

 1 5 , Ningpo (Leech), 1 $ , Chia-kou-ho (Fratt), 1 c? , 1 2 , Kwei- 

 chow, 1 $ , Moupin (KricheUorff), 1 $ . Exp., S 42, $ 48 millim, 



1713. Diacrisia robusta. (Plate XLIV. fig. 14.) 



Spilosoma robustum, Leech, Trans. Ent, Soc. 1899, p. 149. 



White ; palpi scarlet at base, black at tips ; antennse black ; 

 shoulders and patagia with black points in male; crimson streaks 

 below the base of wings ; fore coxae at sides and femora above 

 scarlet ; the fore coxae, tibiae, and tarsi striped with black ; abdomen 

 scarlet, suffused with crimson above, dorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of black spots. Pore wing with black spot in upper angle of 

 cell ; medial spots above and below vein 1, and sometimes a sub- 

 terminal point below vein 6. Hind wing with discoidal spot, and 

 sometimes a postmedial point below vein 2 and a subterminal point 

 below vein 1. 



Hah. W. China, Moupin (Kricheldorff), 1 (5* , 1 ? type, 

 Ecvp., 6 Q2, 2 70 millim. 



1714. Diacrisia erythrozona. (Plate XLIV. fig. 21.) 



Euprepia erythrozona^ Koll. Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 468 (1844) ; Hmpsn, 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 

 Spilosoma coqnata, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 11 (1869); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 234. 



Pure white ; palpi and branches of antennae black ; legs streaked 

 with black ; fore femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson above 

 with black bands, the base and extremity white; a sublateral series 

 of black points. Pore wing with the costal edge black in male to 

 beyond middle ; a black point at lower angle of cell and sometimes 

 a subterminal point above vein 5. Hind wing usually with discoidal 

 spot, and sometimes subterminal spots above vein 5 and below 2. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, type <S cognata, Kashmir (Leech), 3 ^ , 



3 2 } Dalhousie (Harford), 11 d" , 4 $ , Dharmsala (Hocking), 1 S ,. 

 1 2 • ^^-^y-, d 42, $ 46 millim. 



*1715. Diacrisia erythrastis. (Plate XLIV. fig. 8.) 



Spilosoma erythrastis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 753 (1886) : 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 263. 

 Spilosoma freyichii, Lucas, P. Soc. Queensl. xiii. p. 59 (1898;. 



S . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi at tips, antennae, spots 

 on tegulae and patagia, and a stripe on vertex of thorax black ; 



