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terminal series. Hind wing white, the inner area sometimes tinged 

 with yellow ; basal, antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal blackish 

 spots on costa ; a discoidal lunuie; subterminal spots on each side 

 of veins 5, 2, and 1, and sometimes two or three on apical half of 

 termen. 



Hah. W. China, Chia-kou-ho, 1 J , Washan {Pratt), 1 $ ; Sikhim 

 (Lidderdale), 7 d , type. Exy. 55 millim. 



1810. Diacrisia impleta. (Plate XLA^I. fig. 12.) 



H^/pcrcompa impleta, Wlk. xxxi. 286 (1864) ; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 24 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 240. 

 AlphcBa abdominaUs, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 682. 



Head and thorax white tinged with yellow ; palpi, lower part o£ 

 frons, and antennae black, the last whitish above towards tips ; teg- 

 ulae edged with orange and with broad black stripes ; shoulders with 

 black patches ; patagia with black spots ; vertex of thorax with 

 broad black stripe ; pectus and legs black ; fore coxae edged with 

 orange, femora with white patches ; abdomen orange above, whitish 

 below, with dorsal, lateral, sublateral, and ventral series of black 

 spots, the last two segments black. Fore wing black ; a white point 

 at base ; subbasal, antemedial, medial, postmedial, and terminal 

 series of yellowish-white 8])ots, the subbasal series with the spot 

 below the cell large and produced, the medial series angled at median 

 nervure and with a spot beyond it beyond the discocellulars ; the post- 

 medial series curved, the spots between veins 2 and 5 small, and 

 with two obliquely placed spots beyond it bdow costa towards apex; 

 the terminal series irregular, with some of the spots not quite on 

 termen ; some spots on the cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow ; sub- 

 basal, medial, and postmedial black spots on costa ; a discoidal 

 lunuie ; more or less developed postmedial and subterminal series of 

 spots on the veins with the medial ones conjoined; a line on termen 

 at apex sometimes more developed, dentate on vein 6 and extending 

 to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Patagia with black stripes ; abdomen black with orange 

 segmental bands ; fore wing with the spots reduced, the postmedial 

 series only represented by slight points ; cilia without spots ; hind 

 wing with black streaks on the veins. — Khcisis. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Lidderdale), 3 d , 2 $ ; Assam, Khasis, 1 c^ . 

 Eccjj., 6 54, 2 64 millim. 



1811. Diacrisia caesarea. 



Bombt/x ccssarea, Goeze, Eiit. Beytr. iv. (3) p. 63 (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 276. 

 Bombijx luctifera, Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 222, pi. 43. ff. 1-5 (1784) ; Hiibn. 



Eur. Schmett. f. 147 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. p. 354, pi. 36. f. 5 ; Staud. 



Oat. p. 59. 

 Bombyx morio, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (1) p. 250 (1801). 

 Atolmis japonica, Wlk. xxxi. 223 (1864). 

 Estigmene moerens, Butl. Cist. Ent. iii. p. 114 (18S5) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 277. 



