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Spilarctia confusa. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 13.) 
Spilarctia confusa, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 42 (1875). 
3. Primaries above buff, with a faint pink tinge, with slenderly red costal margin; a 
black dot at base; a curved oblique series of black dots from inner margin to lower radial ; 
several submarginal discal black dots (sometimes forming a zigzag series to apex): secondaries 
buff, with a distinct wash of rose-colour, deepest towards the abdominal margin; a black spot 
at the end of the cell; a black submarginal spot on the radial interspace and two or three 
near the anal angle with pale borders: thorax buff; palpi red, with brown tips; antennz 
black ; abdomen crimson, with dorsal and lateral black spots. Primaries below suffused with 
rose-red ; a black spct at the end of the cell; apex pale: secondaries paler than above, very 
slightly timted with pink; a black spot at the end of the cell: coxe and upper surface of 
femora carmine; tibiz and tarsi partially brown; venter cream-coloured, with a few lateral 
black dots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 
North India, 
NAYACA, Moore. 
Nayaca imbuta. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 1.) 
Arctia imbuta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 614. n. 38 (1855). 
Primaries above dark brown, with several irregular large white markings on the interno- 
median and external areas, and two opposed curved series of small white spots just beyond the 
middle: secondaries dark brown, with the base of interno-median area, the basal half of the 
median vein and the submedian, a very irregular streak from the anal angle to the second 
median branch, a large costal patch enclosing a brown spot, and an interrupted external border 
sulphur-yellow: thorax dark brown; head yellow above; collar, with the margins and a 
central stripe enclosing a scarlet line, yellow; tegulz bordered with yellow ; abdomen scarlet, 
with dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Wings below nearly as above; secondaries 
yellow at base; a tuft of carmine hairs from the side of the pectus ; pectus dark brown, femora 
scarlet in front ; abdomen whitish, blotched and spotted with dark brown and with lateral 
scarlet dots. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 
Himalayas ; Darjiling (Lidderdale). 
Nayaca divisa. (Plate LXXXVILI. fig. 2.) 
Arctia divisa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 614. n. 39 (1855). 
Ardices divisa, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 28 (1875). 
Wings above cream-coloured, banded and spotted with dark brown: primaries with two 
large spots at the base, a costal streak almost uniting with the upper basal spot, and a large 
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