282 AECTIAD^. 



2 • Deeper ochreous throughout. 



Ilab. Abyssinia, Shoa; Be. E. Afeica, Kikuyu, Fort Smith 

 (CrawsJiay), 1 J , KilimaDJaro (Abbott), type t in IJ.S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Delagoa Bat, 1 $ in Mus. Oxon. Ecv^. 36 millim. 



1740. Diacrisia obliquivitta. 



Spilarctia ohliquivitta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 40, pi. 2. f. 26(1879); Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 13 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. 

 Spilarctia jucunda, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. p. 32, pi. 85. f. 11 (1881) ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 



6 . Head and thorax whitish buif ; palpi, sides of frons, and 

 antennae black, the last with some white on shaft above; legs 

 striped with black ; abdomen orange above except at base and 

 extremity, clothed with long hair, and with dorsal and lateral 

 series of black points, the ventral surface white. Fore wing buff, 

 thinly scaled ; an oblique slightly curved postmedial black line from 

 vein 5 to inner margin, sometimes connected with the costa by a 

 curved series of points, and with an oblique series of short black 

 streaks on each side of the veins between it and apex. Hind wing 

 pure white. 



Hab. SiKHiM {Lidderdcde), type S jucunda, (Dudgeon) 4 d. 

 Exp. 36-42 miUim. 



1741. Diacrisia sparsipuncta, n. sp. (Plate XLV. fig. 19.) 



cJ . Pale yellow ; head and tegulsB orange-yellow ; palpi black, 

 fringed with yellow below ; antennae black ; tibiae and tarsi black 

 above, the femora orange above ; abdomen orange above, with 

 dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Pore wing with 

 small pale brown antemedial spot below cell ; some spots in and below 

 end of cell ; a curved subterminal series with some spots beyond it at 

 middle and before it towards inner margin. Hind wing with the 

 inner area clothed with orange hair. 



$ . Deeper ochreous throughout. 



Hab. Madagascae, Betsileo (Covjcoi), 1 c^ , 1 $ type. Exp. 42 

 millim. 



1742. Diacrisia flavens. (Plate XLV. fig. 25.) 



Alpenus flavens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 39 (1879) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 13 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 239. 



5 . Ochreous ; palpi at sides and antennae blackish ; legs streaked 

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

 series of black spots. Pore wing with basal fuscous spot and curved 

 subbasal series, sometimes obsolete ; a curved medial series ; two 

 discoidal spots, and sometimes black suffusion in end of cell excurved 

 from costa to vein 3, then incurved with one or two spots beyond it 

 at middle, or complete subterminal series. Hind wing with dis- 

 coidal point or spot ; a postmedial maculate band sometimes 



