304 ARCTIAD^. 



1788. Diacrisia sordidescens, n. n. (Plate XL VI. fig. 2.) 



Spilosoma sordida, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 808 (nee Hiibn.) ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. 



(S Pale dull reddish brown ; palpi, sides of frons, antennae, and 

 legs above blackish; abdomen crimson above except at base and 

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

 Eore wing with traces of curved dark antemedial line ; a more 

 distinct postmedial line oblique below vein 3 ; traces of an oblique 

 series of short streaks from apex to vein 5 and of subterminal 

 streaks on veins 5 to 3. Hind wing rather paler, with dark discoidal 

 spot and subterminal spots above vein 5 and towards tornus. 

 Hab. SiKHiM, 2 (S type. Exp. 34 millim. 



1789. Diacrisia castanea. 



Spilosoma castanea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M, ix. p. 79, pi. 158. ff. 26, 27 

 (1893) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 8. 



S . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; palpi, antennae, and 

 greater part of legs dark brown ; fore coxae and the femora crimson ; 

 abdomen crimson, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black 

 points. Pore wing dark red-brown ; sometimes some black points 

 at base ; an antemedial spot above vein 1, and sometimes some spots 

 between it and costa ; black marks in and beyond angles of cell, 

 with a spot above them on costa ; a more or less complete post- 

 medial maculate band formed by irregular patches, curved from 

 costa to vein 2, retracted to cell at origin of vein 2 ; cilia blackish. 

 Hind wing black-brown, with a black discoidal spot and slight 

 traces of scarlet on termen. Underside of fore wing with scarlet 

 suffusion in and beyond the cell and along vein 1. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing pale red-brown, the last with 

 small antemedial black spot above vein 1, a spot in upper angle of 

 cell, the postmedial series reduced to spots on each side of veins 5 

 to 1. Hind wing scarlet, with black discoidal spot and subterminal 

 series of spots, large from vein 3 to tornus. 



Hah. Ceylon, Dickoya {Green), 2 d", 2 $, type. Eccjf)., S 38y 

 5 46 millim. 



*1790. Diacrisia brunnea. (Plate XLY. fig. 18.) 



Arctia brunnea, Heyl. C.E. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxiv. p. xxix (1890). 

 Spilarctia heylaertsii, Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 908 (1892). 



J . Head pale brown ; palpi, sides of frons, and antennae blackish; 

 thorax dark brown ; fore coxae at sides and femora above except at 

 extremity crimson; abdomen crimson above, with broad blackish 

 dorsal stripe not reaching extremity, the terminal segment with 

 black band, a lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface brown. 

 Pore wing dark brown ; antemedial black spots on each side of 

 vein 1 ; a postmedial series of spots on each side of the veins, 

 obsolescent and smaller towards costa, curved to vein 4, then 



