SOO AECTTAD^. 



Diacrisia irene, Butl, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 249. 

 Nemeophila rtissula, var. mortua, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. 78 

 (1887). 



S . Mustard-yellow ; head dark brown ; antennae with the shaft 

 pink above ; pectus and legs fuscous with some greyish hair, the 

 legs striped with pink ; abdomen pale yellowish largely tinged with 

 fuscous. Fore wing with the costa fuscous, pink towards apex ; a 

 pink fascia on inner margin with some fuscous on margin ; a pink 

 and fuscous discoidal patch ; cilia pink. Hind wing pale yellowish, 

 the basal area usually suffused with fuscous ; a large fuscous dis- 

 coidal spot ; a diffused subterminal band ; cilia pink. Underside of 

 fore wing with the basal area suffused with fuscous ; a fuscous 

 postmedial band angled at veins 5 and 2. 



5 . Fulvous orange ; palpi, frons, and antennae pinkish ; abdomen 

 with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, or dorsal bands ; wings 

 with the veins red ; fore wing with more or less developed discoidal 

 fuscous patch ; hind wing brighter, the basal area suffused with 

 black ; a large discoidal spot and a more or less conjoined sub- 

 terminal series of spots. 



Ab. 1. irene S • Fore wing with the markings reduced to a pink 

 point at lower angle of cell; hind wing without markings. — 

 Japan. 



Ab. 2. mortua. Inner margin of fore wing and cilia not pink ; 

 female more suffused with black. — N. Asia, Transalai, Margellan. 



Hah. EuKOPE, except Arctic region, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; 

 Armenia ; Siberia ; Amur, 1 $ ; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer)^ 3 d* , 2 $ , 

 Tokio (Fenton), 2 c? , 2 $ , type irene ; Core a, Gensan {Leech), 1 $ ; 

 W. China. Exp. 38-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 41 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. p. 257, pi. 74. f. 1. 



Brown ; tubercles blackish ; hairs brown ; dorsal line ochreous 

 or orange ; spiracles ochreous or white ; head dark brown. Food- 

 plants : Hieraceum, Erica, Scabiosa, etc. 8-5. 



*1780. Diacrisia ornata. 



Arctia ortiata, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 188, pi. iv. ff. 1, 2 (1896). 



S . Head and thorax pale brownish ; tegulse with blackish 

 spots; patagia and thorax with blackish streaks, the latter with 

 fulvous spot behind the collar ; abdomen pale brownish with black 

 dorsal bands, the extremity, pectus, and ventral surface fulvous. 

 Fore wing pale yellow ; a subbasal black point below costa ; a 

 small antemedial spot on costa, point in cell, and short streak 

 below the cell ; medial, postmedial, and subterminal spots on costa, 

 the two last confluent with a broad irregular oblique fascia from 

 apex to lower end of cell, then along median nervure to before 

 middle, this being conjoined by two irregular bands to the fascia on 

 inner margin ; the termen black, expanding into dentate marks at 

 middle. Hind wing white ; a forked black fascia below the cell 

 from base to beyond middle ; a discoidal lunule ; subterminal spots 



