272 AECTIADJE. 



Ab. 3. Eore wing with the interspaces streaked with black, 

 leaving the veins, streaks in the interspaces, and series of spots on 

 terminal area white. 



Ab. 4. luxeri. Fore wing tinged with flesh-pink and with fuscous 

 suffusion on inner area ; hind wing tinged with pale yellow. 



Ab. 5. Head, thorax, and fore wing strongly tinged with 

 ochreous. 



Hah. C. & N. Europe, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Spain ; Italy ; E. 

 EuEOPE ; Armenia ; Altai ; Amur ; Japan, Nagasaki {Leecli)^ 1 5 , 

 Tsu-Shima (Seehohm), 1 S , {Le2uis, Fenton) 4 c? , 3 $ , Nikko, 1 6 , 

 1 2, Yokohama (Manley), 1 cS ; Corea, Gensan (Leech)^ 1 ^ ; 

 China, Shanghai (J. J. Walker), 1 c? , 3 5 type sangaica, Kwei- 

 chow, 1 c? , 1 2 , Omei-shan, 1 6 , Washan (Pratt), 1 c? , 1 $ , 

 Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 ^ , 1 $ , Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 cS , Moupin 

 (Kricheldorff), 1 c? , 1 $ ; N.W. Himalayas, Murree (Yerhury), 

 1 2 . Exp. 34-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 40 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 28, pi. 77. f. 1 h. 



Brown ; hairs long, brown ; dorsal line ochreous ; spiracles 

 white ; head black. Food-plants : Plantago, Mentha, Rumex, 

 etc. 7-9. 



1720. Diacrisia aspersa. 



Spilosoma aspersa, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 89 (1878); Saalm. Lep. 



Madag. i. p. 157, pi. 6. f. 89 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 224. 

 Areas virginalis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) ii. p. 456 (1878). 



White ; head orange, the palpi, a patch on vertex, and antennae 

 except basal joint black ; fore coxae and femora orange, tibiae and 

 tarsi black ; abdomen orange, some white hair at base, dorsal and 

 lateral series of black spots, male with large patch on subterminal 

 segment, the ventral surface white with sublateral series of black 

 points. Fore wing sparsely irrorated with small brown spots ; a 

 discoidal lunule. Hind wing with discoidal lunule, the terminal 

 half irrorated with small brown spots. 



Hah. Madagascar, Betsileo, 1 c5" , 1 2 , type virginalis, Antana- 

 narivo, 3 $ . Exp., c? 52, 2 64 millim. 



1721. Diacrisia spectabilis. 



Noctua spcctabilis, Tausch. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. i. p. 179, pi. 13. f. 6 



(1811); Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 145, ff. 9, 10; Staud. Cat. 



p. .58 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 910. 

 Bomhyx intercissa, Freyer, N. Beitr. Schmett. iv. p. 118 (1842) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. Suppl. iv. p. 81, pi. 57. ff. 4 a, 6. 

 Arctia spectabilis, var. annellata, Christ, Eom. Mem. iii. p. 55, pi. 3. f. 2 



(1887). 



J . White ; head except vertex and thorax tinged with pale 

 yellow-brown ; antennae with the branches brown ; abdomen dorsally 

 banded with dark brown and yellow. Fore wing with pale yellow- 

 brown fascia on basal costal area, a short antemedial streak in cell 



