276 ARCTIAD^. 



line from inner margin; two conjoined elongate obliquely-placed 

 spots from middle of costa to lower angle of cell ; a spot on costa 

 above angle of cell and point at angle ; two small spots beyond lower 

 angle and three obliquely placed from lower angle towards an 

 oblique line from inner margin ; a streak from near termen below 

 vein 5 to angle of cell ; subterminal strige on each side of veins 3^ 

 4, 5, 6 ; a cluster of spots on costa before apex ; two postmedial 

 points on each side of vein 1 ; a terminal series of spots, the spot 

 above vein 5 sending a streak inwards. Hind wing with discoidal 

 spot; subterminal spots above and below vein 5 ; a spot below vein 

 2 and one near tornus ; a terminal series of points on apical 

 part of wing. 



c? . Fore wing with the postmedial spots conjoined into a band 

 met by the oblique mark from middle of costa ; the subterminal 

 markings reduced to some irregular spots below costa and at vein 5 

 and a small spot above vein 1. Hind wing with the spots smaller. 



Hah. SiEEEA Leone, 1 S type ; Calabae, type $ radiosa in Coll. 

 Druce. Exjj., ^ 42, $ 64 millim. 



1729. Diacrisia rava. (Plate XLIV. fig. 5.) 



Spilarctia rava, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 211 (1898). 



2 . Ochreous white ; lower part of frons blackish ; antennae 

 black ; tegulae, patagia, and shoulders with black points, the tegulae 

 edged with yellow ; fore coxae tinged with yellow, the legs black 

 above ; abdomen orange above, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing with black point at base ; the 

 markings of underside showing slightly above and consisting of a 

 medial fuscous band angled at lower angle of cell ; a discoidal 

 lunule ; a postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 3, 

 interrupted at middle, met by an oblique series of irregular spots 

 from costa and with spots beyond it towards inner margin ; some 

 points on termen towards apex. Hind wing with fuscous discoidal 

 spot ; two spots towards tornus ; a subterminal point above vein 5, 

 and some points on termen towards apex ; some orange hair on 

 inner area. 



Hab, Gold Coast, Aburi (Sir G. Carter), 1 $ . Eccp. 60 millim.. 

 Type t in Coll. Druce. 



1730. Diacrisia maculosa. 



Bomhyx maculosa, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 370, B (1781); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 238. 

 Eepantheria assimilis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 183 (1827). 

 Al'penus aqtialis, Wlk. iii. 686 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 238. 

 Ecpantheria indeterminata, Wlk. iii. 697 (1855). 

 Halesidota macularia, Wlk. xsxi. 314 (1864). 

 Spilosoma et/ralpenus, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xli. p. 83 (1880) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 238. 

 Spilosoma investigatorum, Karsch, Werther, Deutsch-0.- Africa, p. 313 



(1898). 



