292 ARCIIAD^. 



1759. Diacrisia multiguttata. 



Hypercompa multiguttata, Wlk. iii. 657 (1855) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 239. 

 Deiopeia spilosomoides, Wlk. xxxi, 263 (1864) ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. 



p. 30, pi. 85. f. 7; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 239. 

 Deiopeia pardalma, Wlk. xxxi. 263 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 350. 



c? . Head and thorax white ; palpi black, fringed with yellowish 

 white below ; sides of frons and antennse black ; tegulse, shoulders, 

 and patagia with black spots ; fore coxae with black spots, legs 

 striped with black ; abdomen orange-yellow, with dorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing white ; a basal and 

 two subbasal black spots ; an antemedial series of jQve spots, the 

 one below the cell displaced outwards ; a medial series strongly 

 angled outwards in lower end of cell ; spots on each side of disco- 

 cellulars ; two postmedial series, the 1st bent inwards to costa and 

 excurved beyond lower angle of cell, the 2nd excurved at middle 

 and incurved below costa and vein 3 ; a subterminal series of short 

 streaks on each side of the veins incurved below costa and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing yellow, 

 with discoidal black spot, sometimes some spots of the postmedial 

 series present between vein 2 and submedian fold ; a subterminal 

 series of spots interrupted at middle ; some terminal spots towards 

 apex. 



2 . Hind wing with the spots large, the series more complete, a 

 medial series present. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Simla (Harford), 2 cT , 2 $ , Kashmir 

 Jawi, 1 (S , {Strachey) 2 (S type spilosomoides, Kulu (G. Young), 

 2 (S , 2 2'-> Nepal (HardwicJce), 2 S type ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 

 2 2 ; Burma, Myingyan ( Watson), 1 ^ ; Cambodia, type loardalina 

 in Mus. Oxon. Exp., 6 32-40, $ 42-60 miUim. 



Larva. Butl. III. Het. vii. p. 120, pi. 138. f. 9. 



Pale green blotched and streaked with white, with sparse black 

 and white hairs ; a dorsal series of tufts of red-brown hair on 

 a stripe formed by black specks. 



1760. Diacrisia diplosticha. (Plate XLY. fig. 22.) 



Spilosoma diplosticha, Hmpsn. Ann, S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 57 (1900). 



S . Ochreous yellow ; palpi above and antennae black; patagia with 

 black points ; fore coxae and femora, mid tibiae and the tarsi black 

 above, hind tibiae with a spot on outer side and the spurs black. 

 Fore wing with antemedial series of three points angled on median- 

 nervure ; a medial series of points acutely angled on median 

 nervure, the spots towards costa and inner margin larger ; two 

 points just beyond discocellulars and three at lower angle of cell ; 

 a postmedial series consisting of pairs of points on each side of the 

 veins, strongly excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved. Hind 

 wing orange-yellow, with black discoidal spot. 



2 . Fore wing with the points at lower angle of cell only. 



Hah. Natal, Karkloof {Marshall), 1 S type. Exp. 4,2 millim. 



