290 ARCTIADJi:. 



Spilosoma kowqua, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 88 (1877) ; Butl. lU. Het. 



B. M. vii. p. 28, pi. 122. f. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 231. 

 Spilarctia howra, Moore, Lap. Atk. p. 40 (1879) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 232. 

 Spilarctia dalhergia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 394 ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. 



vii. p. 28, pi. 122. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 231. 

 Spilarctia hifascia, Hmpsn. HI. Het. B. "M. viii. p. 55, pi. 140. f. 21 (1891) ; 



id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 9 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 

 Spiloaoma bisecta, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soe. 1899, p. 148 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 230. 



(5 . Pale buflf ; palpi black above and at extremity, crimson at 

 base ; sides of frons usually and antennae black ; thorax sometimes 

 with black stripe on vertex ; legs mostly black, the fore coxae and 

 femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson above except at base and 

 extremity, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing often with antemedial black point above vein 1 and 

 point at upper angle of cell ; an oblique postmedial series of slight 

 striae on each side of veins 4 to 1 and others towards apex on each 

 side of veins 6, 7 ; subterminal points on each side of veins 3, 4, 5. 

 Hind wing paler ; a black discoidal spot ; a subterminal series 

 formed by spots on each side of veins 7, 5, 2, and 1, those towards 

 apex often obsolete. Underside of fore wing with the postmedial 

 maculate band curved round to costa, the basal half sometimes 

 tinged slightly with crimson. 



$ . Both wings with the spots usually more or less obsolete, one 

 specimen from Bhutan being unmarked except for the discal spot 

 of hind wing. 



Ab. 1. Strongly tinged with yellow-brown. — Hai-ning. 

 Ab. 2. dalbergice. Abdomen of female orange-yellow. — Kangra. 

 Ab. 3. Hind wing with the inner area tinged with crimson ; 

 underside of fore wing suffused with crimson except towards apex. — 

 Hongkong, Foochow. 



Ab. 4. Gonfusa. Hind wing above wholly, and sometimes the 

 fore wing above tinged with crimson. — Bombay, Travancore, 

 Burma. 



Ab. 5. hifascia. Fore wing with the series of spots more complete; 

 underside with black fascia in and below cell and two postmedial 

 bands. — Nilgiris. 



Ab. 6. todara. Head, thorax, and fore wing of male strongly 

 tinged with red-brown, the hind wing with crimson. Female : 

 abdomen orange above ; wings whitish ochreous with the black 

 markings reduced. — Nilgiris. 



Hah. Japan, Hakodate, types $ ione and mollicula, Nagasaki 

 (LeecJi), 1 c? type hisecta, Yokohama {Manley, Pryer)., 4 $ , Tokio 

 (Fenton), 2 $; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 3 $; China, Shanghai 

 (Pryer), 3 cJ , 1 5 , types hoivqua and mandarina, Omei-shan, 2 $ , 

 Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 $ , Moupin {Kr%clieldorff\ 1 $ , Hai-ning, 

 1 5 , Hongkong (J. J. Walker), 1 (S , Foochow (Leech) 1 d , (de la 

 Touche) 1 2 5 Swatow, 1 $ ; N. India, 3 cJ , 1 $ , type and type 

 confusa ; Kangra (Hoching), 1 c? , 3 $ , type dalbergice ; Nepal, 



