DIACRI8IA. 2^7 



1751. Diacrisia canescens. (Plate XLV. fig. 4.) 



Spilosoma ohliqua, Wlk. iii. 079 (1855), $ (nee c?). 



Ardices canescens, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 29 (1875); Kirby, Cat. Het, 

 p. 239. 



Yellowish white; palpi scarlet, the 3rd joint black; sides of 

 frons and antennae black ; neck scarlet at sides ; shoulders with 

 black-brown stripe with scarlet upper edge ; legs striped with 

 blackish, fore coxae blackish edged with scarlet, the femora scarlet 

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

 series of black spots. Fore wing with black-brown spot on base of 

 costa ; an antemedial maculate line very oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, where it is acutely angled, then represented by 

 spots on each side of vein 2 and above vein 1 ; a point in upper angle 

 of cell ; a maculate postmedial line, excurved from below costa to 

 vein 3, where it is joined by an oblique series of irregular spots 

 from apex, then oblique ; a subterminal series of points on each 

 side of veins 5 to 3 ; some points on medial part of termen and at 

 tornus ; some points sometimes present on inner area beyond the 

 postmedial line. Hind wing white ; a discoidal spot ; subterminal 

 spots on each side of veins 5, 2, and 1, sometimes much reduced. 



Hob. N". S. Wales, Sydney {Brencliley^ Matheiu), 6 cj*, 4 $ , type 

 and type ohliqua $ . Exp., S 44, $ 54 millim. 



1752. Diacrisia stigmata. 



Spilosoma stigTuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 809 ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. 



p. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. 

 Spilarctia lacteata, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. p. 31, pi. 85. f. 10 (1881) ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 



Fig. 141. — Diacrisia stigmata, J . \. (From Moths Ind. vol ii.) 



S . Pale buff; palpi, lower part of frons, antennae, a streak on 

 vertex of thorax, pectus in front, patches on fore coxae, and stripes 

 on legs black ; fore coxae at sides and femora above crimson ; 

 abdomen crimson above, clothed with long whitish hair, dorsal, 

 lateral, and sublateral series of black points. Fore wing with short 

 subbasal black streak in cell and points below costa and cell and 

 above vein 1, often almost aborted ; a medial series of spots angled 

 on median nervure, then strongly incurved and with short streak 

 above inner margin ; an oblique series of short streaks on each side 

 of the veins from apex to vein 5 and usually others on each side of 

 vein 1 ; a subterminal series of short streaks on each side of veins 3, 



