806 ARCTIAD^. 



"base, black at tips ; frons black ; thorax with black dorsal stripe ; 

 legs blackish, femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson above, with 

 clorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface pale buff. Fore wing brown-buff, the veins paler ; a black 

 point at base of costa ; an antemedial spot on cosia with point below 

 it, and obliquelj^ placed spots above and below vein 1 ; a postmedial 

 spot on costa, and obliquely curved series of almost conjoined spots 

 from vein 5 to inner margin, larger towards the margin; an oblique 

 series of small spots from apex to below vein 6 and points on each 

 side of veins 5 to 3 and above 1. Hind wing buff tinged with 

 crimson, most strongly on inner area ; subterminal black spots at 

 veins 5, 2, and 1. 



Hah. Celebes, Lakka, type t c? in Coll. Snellen. Exp. 44 millim. 



1 794. Diacrisia strigatula. 



Spilosoma strigatula, Wlk. iii. 613 (1855) ; Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 357, 

 pi. 9 a. ff. 12, 12 a; Semp. Schmett. Phil. ii. p. 484, pi. Ivii. ff. 10, 11, 

 pi. P. ff. 10, 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 250. 



Spilosoma nibescens, Wlk. iii. 677 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 250. 



Chelonia cervina, Wllgrn. Wien, ent. Mon. iv. p. 162 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 250. 



cJ . Antennas with the branches long ; brown-buff ; palpi, lower 

 part of frons, often a stripe on vertex of thorax, and the greater 

 part of legs dark brown ; fore coxae and femora above crimson ; 

 abdomen crimson above except at base and extremity, dorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of black points. Fore wing with black point 

 at base ; an antemedial series of black points, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure where it is angled, and often with a black point 

 before it below median nervure ; black points in angles of cell and 

 beyond lower angle ; a postmedial series of black points on each 

 side of the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, and 

 with another more regularly curved series beyond it ; a subterminal 

 series of points on each side of the veins, obsolete below vein 3, and 

 a series on the cilia. Hind wing orange-scarlet ; a black discoidal 

 spot ; a subterminal series of irregular spots, the two towards 

 tornus larger. Underside of fore wing with the disk tinged with 

 scarlet. 



5 . Fore wing with the series of points usually more or less 

 obsolete, often totally absent. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing without black spots ; abdomen without black 

 points. 



Hah. Burma, Moulmein {Cleric), 1 (^ , 1 $ , type ruhescens; Penang 

 (S. Flower), 2 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace, Bartlett), 2^.3 $ , 

 ;S.E. Borneo {Dolierty\ 1 $ ; Java (Horsfeld), 7 d , 6 5 , type. 

 Exp., S 42, 2 56 miilim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 358, pi. 16. ff. 11, 11 a. 



Black ; the warts scarlet with tufts of hair red towards base, 

 hrown at tips. Food-plants, Dioscorea oppositifoHa , etc. 



Cocoon dark brown. 



