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white, dorsal, lateral, and siiblateral series of black spots ; wings 

 ochreous with a pinkish tinge. Fore wing with fuscous spots in 

 middle and upper angle of cell ; an obli(]ue scries of spots from 

 apex to middle of inner margin, becoming short stria) on each side 

 of the veins towards apex and with spots before it on each side of 

 vein 1 ; some subterminal striae between veins 3 and 5 and a point 

 further from termen below vein 2. Hind wing with black discoidal 

 spot ; a subterminal spot above vein 5 and three towards tornus. 



2 . White ; palpi fringed with white below ; abdomen with the 

 medial segments slightly tinged.with crimson on dorsum ; fore wing 

 with the oblique series of spots reduced to the short streaks towards 

 apex. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Jonas, Manley, Fryer) ^ 6 c? , 6 $ , type. 

 Ex;p., S 36, $ 48 millim. 



1755. Diacrisia dentilinea. (Plate XLY. fig. 21.) 



Spilosoma dentilinea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 573 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, 

 p. 4 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 232. 



^, Whitish buff; palpi crimson at base, black at tips; lower 

 part of frons black ; antennae whitish ; thorax with black streak on 

 vertex ; legs striped with black, the fore coxae and femora above 

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

 series of small black spots. Fore wing with basal black point ; an 

 antemedial series of three black points towards costa, one below 

 median nervure where the series is strongly angled and two towards 

 inner margin ; a point in upper angle of cell with one beyond it 

 below costa and one or two just beyond lower angle ; an oblique 

 postmedial series of points on each side of veins 4 to 1, larger 

 towards inner margin ; a subterminal line from costa to vein 2 

 dentate to termen between veins 4 and 7. Hind wing tinged with 

 pink ; a discoidal and a subterminal series of black points between 

 veins 2 and 6. Underside of fore wing suffused with crimson to 

 end of cell and near tornus. 



Hah. SiKHiM, Moore Coll., 1 <S type. Eocp. 42 millim. 



1756. Diacrisia obliqua. 



Spilosoma obliqua, Wlk. iii. 679 (1855) c?,nec $; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. 

 Spilosoma todara, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 574 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 231. 

 Spilarctia nydia, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 41 (1875) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. v. 



p. 32, pi. 85. f. 12 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 9 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 230. 

 Spilarctia ione, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 41 (1875) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. iii, 



p. 6, pi. 42. f. 6 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 231. 

 Spilarctia conjusa, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 42 (1875) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. v. 



p. 33, pi. 85. f. 13 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 231. 

 Spilarctia mollicula, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 395 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. 



B. M. iii. p. 6, pi. 42. f. 7 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 231. 

 Spilosoma mandarina, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 88 (1877) ; Kirby,. 



Oat. Het. p. 231. 

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