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

 point at base ; highly and rather irregularly waved ante- and post- 

 medial black lines, the latter bent outwards from below costa to 

 vein 4 and sometimes with small spot beyond it above vein ; a 

 discoidal point sometimes present. Hind wing pale yellow, with 

 the inner area orange-yellow in male, uniform orange-yellow in 

 female ; a black discoidal spot. 



Hah. Natal, 1 $ type, Karkloof {Marshall), 1 S, Exp. 50 

 millim. 



18.14. Diacrisia turbida. 



S'pUarctia turbida, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) x. p. 158 (1882); Pageust. 



Zoologica, xii. (1+2) p. 49, pi. i. f. 17; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 231. 

 Spilarctia meeki, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 234 (1899). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi, lower part of 

 frons, and antennae black ; tegulae and patagia with black spots ; 

 thorax with black stripe on vertex ; legs blackish, the fore coxae at 

 sides and femora above crimson ; abdomen crimson above, ochreous 

 below, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing ochreous whitish suffused with brown except costal, 

 inner, and terminal areas ; a subbasal black spot below the cell ; 

 an antemedial maculate band angled on median nervure, then 

 oblique ; a whitish spot at lower angle of cell : the postmedial black 

 band represented by an oblique black striga in upper angle of cell 

 and three points beyond it, a maculate band from vein 5 to just 

 below vein 2 and a spot above vein 1 ; two striae below costa towards 

 apex ; an oblique streak from apex to vein 5, some subterminal 

 points from vein 5 to 3, and others further from termen on veins 

 2 and 1. Hind wing crimson, with black discoidal spot, a sub- 

 terminal spot above vein 5 and two towards tornus. Underside of 

 fore wing suffused with crimson to beyond middle. 



$ . Thorax tinged with scarlet ; abdomen with large black spot 

 and lateral and ventral bands on terminal segment ; fore wing with 

 the ground-colour scarlet, except for some ochreous white on costa, 

 inner margin, and termen ; the veins ochreous ; cilia black except 

 towards tornus ; both wings with the black markings much more 

 developed ; some black marks on apical half of termen and cilia. 



Hah. N. Guinea, Trobriand Is., Kiriwini (Meek), 1 $ ; Duke op 

 York Is., 1 d type. Exp., <S 52, $ 60 millim. 



1815. Diacrisia subcarnea. 



Spilosoma subcarnea, Wlk. iii. 675 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 



Aloa hifrons, Wlk. iii. 705 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 



Aha leucoihorax, Feld. Wien. ent. Men. vi. p. 36 (1862) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 232. 

 Spilosoma eruhescens, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 89 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 231. 

 Spilosoma rybaJcowi, Alph. Roin. Mem. ix. p. 171, pi. x. f. 9 (1897). 

 Hyarias oberthuri, Semp. Schmett. Phil. ii. p. 489 (1899). 



S . Head and thorax yellowish white ; palpi crimson, black at 



