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17*j5. Diacrisia landaca. (Plate XLVL. fig. 22.) 



Arctia landaca, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 358 (1859) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 250. 



S . Head and thorax dark fuscous brown to yellow-brown; palpi 

 and frons blackish, antennae whitish with black patch beyond 

 middle; legs blackish, the femora crimson above; abdomen crimson 

 at sides and extremity, the dorsal and ventral surface dark brown ; 

 wings greyish or j-ellow, thickly irrorated and suffused with dark 

 brown. Fore wing with an antemedial black spot on costa, with 

 traces of a waved dark line arising from it, oblique to median 

 nervure, where it is strongly angled ; indistinct oblique minutely 

 waved medial and two postmedial lines ; traces of subterminal 

 black points between veins 8 and 5. Hind wing with discoidal 

 spot; an indistinct curved postmedial line and a more distinct 

 subterminal maculate band. 



Hah. Java (Horsfield), 1 d , 1 $ type, Arjuno 3000 ft. (Doherty), 

 4 cT . E.vp. 42 miilim. 



1796. Diacrisia vagans. 



Arctia vagans, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2) x. p. 322 (1852) ; Stretch, 



Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 192, pi. 8. ft". 8-12 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 246. 

 NemeopUla rufnla, Boisd. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) iii. p. 32 (1855). 

 Antarctia punctata, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 123 (1864). 

 Spilosoma pteridis, H. Edw. Proc. Calif. Acad. v. p. 264 (1875). 

 Antarctia punctata, \ax. proha, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 39 (1881). 



S . Ochreous grey, sometimes tinged with reddish brown or 

 fuscous ; palpi blackish ; antennae with the shaft whitish, the 

 branches black. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; two dark 

 discoidal points sometimes placed on a dark line which is oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; the postmedial 

 line excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved ; a sub- 

 terminal point above vein 5 sometimes present. Hind wing more 

 or less suffused with fuscous, leaving the termen pale ; a fuscous 

 discoidal lunule and some subterminal spots. 



$ . Ground-colour much more rufous ; antennae with the shaft 

 tinged with red above. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Grote Coll. (Stretch), 2S cS , 2 $ . 

 Kxj). 40 millim. 



1797. Diacrisia rubra. (Plate XL VI. fig. 7.) 



Antarctia rubra, Neum. Papilio, i. p. 79 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 246. 

 Antarctia walsinghami, Butl, A. M. N. H. (5) ^iii. p. 311 (1881) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 246. 

 Antarctia rubra, var. danhyi, Ent. News, iv. p. 141 (1893). 



(5 . Head and thorax scarlet or red-brown ; antenna3 with the 

 ■shaft scarlet, the branches black ; legs scarlet ; abdomen ochreous 

 tinged with scarlet. Fore wing red-brown, tinged with scarlet and 

 irrorated with black; a medial black band sometimes present, 



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