DIACRISIA. 317 



1817. Diacrisia niceta. 



Bombyx niceta, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 308, (1782) ; Kirby, Cut. Het. 



p. 912. 

 Spilosoma metarhoda, Wlk. vii. 1695 (1856) ; Swinh. Cat. Ilet. Mus. Oxon. 



p. 184 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. 

 Aretia eogena, Wlk. xxxi. 280 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. 

 Areas Mjparhoda, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) x. p. 159 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 254. 

 Areas semirosea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xix. p. 217 (1887) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 254. 



Head and thorax orange ; palpi crimson, the 3rd joint black ; 

 frons tinged with crimson ; antennae black ; pectus, coxse, and femora 

 crimson, the rest of legs black ; abdomen crimson, with dorsal, 

 lateral, and snblateral series of black spots. Fore wing orange or 

 ochreons, with the interspaces brownish; a black point at base 

 almost always present ; an antemedial black spot above vein 1 

 usually present ; a spot in end of cell almost always present ; three 



Fig. 143. — Diacrisia niceta, (^ . \. 



spots between vein 2 and inner margin, sometimes reduced to two- 

 or one or absent. Hind wiiig deep crimson, with black discoidal 

 spot usually large ; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing crimson. 



Fore wing often with vein 10 anastomosing with 11. 



Hah. Philippines, Manilla, type t metarhoda in Mus. Oxon. ; Bat- 

 CHiAN ( WaUaca), type t eogena in Mus. Oxon. ; Amboina ; Gilolo : 

 MiTsoL; Ternate ; t) ov.i^Y {Wallace) ; N. Guinea, Kapaur (Do/ier^^/)' 

 1 (5 , 1 $ ; LouisiADEs, St. Aignan {Meeh), 1 d" , 1 $ ; N. Ireland' 

 {G. Brown), 1 $ ; N. Britain, 1 cS ; Solomon Is. (Woodford, 

 Matheiu), 3 S type semirosea ; Duke of York Is. {Matheiv), 2 2 

 type hyporlioda. Eocp., S 50, 5 60 millim. 



1818. Diacrisia nebulosa. 



Bhyjparioides nebidosa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 396 (1877) • id. 111. Het. 



B. M. ii. p. 5, pi. 23. f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 250. 

 Bhtjparioides simplicior, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1881, p. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 250. 



Head and thorax fulvous yellow ; palpi, frons, and antennae 

 black-brow ij, the palpi scarlet below ; pectus and legs scarlet, the 

 latter streaked with brown ; abdomen scarlet, with dorsal and 

 lateral series of black spots. Fore wing fulvous yellow, the inner 



