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1768. Diacrisia costata. 



C'helo7iia costata, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 213, pi. 5. f. 6 (1832). 



Orange-yellow ; palpi at sides and antennae black ; legs striped 

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

 of black spots except at base and extremity. Fore wing with the 

 veins streaked with black. 



Hab. New Ireland ; Duke ov York Is., 2 (5,1 5 . E.vp., (^ 46, 

 2 60 millim. 



*1769. Diacrisia pelopea. 



Euchcetes pelopea, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 393, pi. 77. f. 8 

 (1897). 



2 . Head orange ; palpi black towards tips ; antennae black 

 except at base ; thorax yellowish white, the tegulae except at base, 

 and outer side of patagia orange ; coxse orange ; legs fuscous black 

 and yellowish white ; abdomen orange, with dorsal, lateral, and 

 sublateral series of black points, the base of dorsum and ventral 

 surface yellowish white. Pore wing yellowish white ; the basal 

 half of costal edge black ; vein 1 , the median nervure, veins 2, 3, 4, 

 5, 6, 7, and extremity of 8 with fine black streaks. Hind wing 

 yellowish, with terminal series of black points. 



Hab. Mexico, Guadalajara, 1 $ type f in Coll. Schaus. Exp, 

 40 millim. 



1770. Diacrisia lutescens. (Plate XLY. fig. 7.) 



Spilosoma lutescens, Wlk. iii. 672 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 243. 

 Halesidota mundata, Wlk. xxxi. 309 (1864). 



Binna penicillata, Wlk. xxxi. 319 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 241. 

 Spilosoma scrcabile, Wllgrn. CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xxxii. (1) p. 102 

 (1876). 



Orange-yellow ; head orange, or lower part of frons grey, or head 

 grey with orange band behind; palpi blackish, orange below; 

 antennae blackish ; tegulse and patagia grey, edged with orange; vertex 

 of thorax grey ; tibiae and tarsi fuscous grey above ; abdomen with 

 dorsal and lateral series of short black bands or spots, the ventral 

 surface pale. Pore wing with the interspaces paler, more or less 

 strongly developed grey streaks in and below cell and above veins 2 

 and 5, or in all the terminal interspaces, often hardly traceable. 

 Hind wing often whitish except inner area. 



Ab. 1. mundata. Thorax and fore wing almost white, the latter 

 with the costa and cilia yellow. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {Morgan^ Foxcroft)^ 3 <S , type and types 

 mundata and penicillata ; Old Calabar {Miss Kingsley), 1 (5,1 $ ; 

 Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu, Nairobi {Crawshay), 1 6 ; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury (Marshall), 4 6 ; Natal (Gooch), 3 $ , Durban {Boivker), 

 1 d , 1 $ , Karkloof {Marshall), 1 d • Ecp. 38-56 millim. 



