DIACRISIA. 305 



oblique ; an oblique series of points on each side of the veins from 

 apex to vein 4, and small spots below vein 2 and above and below 1 ; 

 sub terminal points on each side of veins 5 to 3. Hind wing black- 

 brown, the veins somewhat paler. Underside without any crimson. 

 Hah. Sumatra, Eort de Kock, type f 6 in Coll. Heylaerts. 

 Eoop. 42 millim. 



1791. Diacrisia tigrina. 



Bhyparia tigrina, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 398, pi. 32. f. 4 ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 22 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 240. 



(S . Brownish ochreous ; palpi, sides of frons, and antennae 

 black ; head tinged with fulvous ; thorax with dorsal black stripe ; 

 pectus and legs mixed with black; abdomen with dorsal black 

 bands and lateral and sublateral series of spots. Fore wing with 

 more or less strongly developed broad irregular black fasciae on 

 costa, median nervure, and the veins arising from it from base to 

 the postmedial series of spots ; a subterminal series of more or less 

 conjoined spots on the veins. Hind wing with large discoidal spot; 

 some black on the veins beyond the cell; a maculate subtermineJ 

 band interrupted at middle; some slight spots on termen towards 

 apex and tornus. 



Hah. S. India, Palni Hills (Sealy), 5 c5' type. E.V2^. 44 millim. 



1792. Diacrisia rufescens. 



lAparis rufescens, Brulle, Webb & Berth. Hist. Nat. lies Canar. ii. 2. 



Zool. Ins. p. 95 (1836) ; Holt- White, Butt. & Moths Teneriffe, p. 71, 



pi. iv. f. 5; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 911. 

 Arctia fortunata, Staud. Iris, iv. pp. 159, 250, pi. 3. f. 3 (1892). 



S . Head and thorax deep red-brown ; antennae with the shaft 

 pinkish ; pectus and abdomen paler rufous. Fore wing grey-brown, 

 sparsely irrorated with fuscous ; antemedial, medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal black patches on costa and a spot at lower angle 

 of cell; indistinct medial, postmedial, and subterminal somewhat 

 curved rufous bands. Hind wing flesh-red. 



$ . Fore wing redder and thickly irrorated with black ; hind 

 wing irrorated with black and with traces of curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canaeies, Teneriffe {Marsden, Holt-White), 1 cT , 1 $. 

 Ea^jp., 6 54, 2 58 millim. 



Larva. Brown, thickly clothed with long silky hair. Food-plants : 

 dock, sorrel, hollyhock, cabbage. 



*1793. Diacrisia mcorei. 



Spilosoma sa7iguinale, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 100, pJ. 8. f. 3 (1879^ ;. 



nee Moore. 

 Spilosoma moorei, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 101 (1879). 

 Sptlarctia snelleni, Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 231 (1892). 



(S . Head, antennae, and thorax whitish buff; palpi crimson at 



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