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1726. Diacrisia curvilinea. (Plate XLIV. fig. 4.) 



Spilosoma curvilinea, Wlk. iii. 671 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat, Het. p. 241. 



Dull yellowish white ; palpi, frons, and basal joint of antennae 

 orange, the palpi at sides and branches of antenna3 black ; pectus 

 and legs orange, the tibiae and tarsi striped with black ; abdomen 

 orange. Fore wing with black antemedial line slightly oxcurved 

 below costa ; a medial line with spot on it at upper angle of cell, 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and 

 sinuous ; a sinuous postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 3 ; 

 cilia yellowish ; the lines sometimes much reduced and partially 

 obsolete. Hind wing yellowish white, with black discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete. — 

 Gambia, Coll. Druce. 



Hah. LxGos(Strahan),12 ; Gam.bia (Moloney) ; Congo (Citrror), 

 1 d , 1 $ type. E.vp., d 32, 2 38 millim. 



1727. Diacrisia aurantiaca. (Plate XLIV. fig. 19.) 



Alpeiius aurantiaca, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 397 (1893), 2. 

 Alpenus multiscripta, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 398 (1893), ^ . 



S . Pale ochreous ; palpi and frons dark brown. Fore legs and 

 mid and hind tibiae and tarsi brown ; abdomen orange above, with 

 dorsal and lateral series of black points. Fore wing irrorated with 

 brown ; a subbasal brown line oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then sinuous ; a medial line oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, where it is joined by a discoidal lunule ; the postmedial 

 line bent outwards below costa, excurved from vein 5 to 3, then 

 slightly incurved and with an oblique line beyond it from costa to 

 vein 6 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, with slight discoidal black point. 



2 ' Fulvous orange ; the 3rd joint of palpi, tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish ; fore wing without the terminal series of points : hind 

 wing orange or orange-yellow, without discoidal point. 



Hah, Sierra Leone {Austen), 1 S ; Niger E., Akasa (Litgard), 

 1 2 '-> Cameroons, Ogove E,., 1 (5", multiscripta cotype. Exp.^ 

 S 32, 2 48 millim. Type f 2 "i Coll. Holland. 



1728. Diacrisia bifurca. (Plate XLIV. fig. 20.) 



Aloa bifurca, Wlk. iii. 700 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 238. 

 Spilarctia radiosa, Druce, A. M. N.H. (7) i. p. 211 (1897). 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi and antennae black ; 

 tegulae edged with orange; tegulae, shoulders, and patagia with 

 black spots ; legs ochreous and black ; fore coxae orange with black 

 spots ; abdomen ochreous, the dorsal surface orange, dorsal and 

 lateral series and some sublateral black spots. Fore wing ochreous ; 

 a black point at base and spots on costa ; an irregular oblique brown 

 line from costa before middle to below cell not quite met by an erect 



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