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B. Abdomen of male crimson, of female orange. 



1172. Spilosoma todarum, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 574 ; C. $ S. no. 848. 



$ . Head and thorax brownish buff or brown ; palpi and 

 antennae black, the latter with the shaft tipped with white ; 

 abdomen clothed with pale crimson hair ; dorsal and lateral series 

 of small black spots. Pore wing brownish buff or brown, a black 

 spot at base ; the antemedial series represented by a spot on the 

 costa and speck above vein 1 ; a speck at upper angle of cell ; a 

 postmedial slightly curved fuscous band with a more or less com- 

 plete series of double specks on each side of the veins ; a similar 

 submarginal series from the costa to vein '3. Hind wing yellowish 

 or brownish buff, the inner area clothed with crimson hair ; a 

 black spot at upper angle of cell, Tore and hind femora crimson. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing whitish buff, the last with the 

 markings mostly obsolete; abdomen orange, the anal tuft pale. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, without crimson hairs on inner area. 

 Some specimens have a prominent black maculate submarginal 

 band on underside of both wings, showing through on the upper- 

 side. 



Hob. Nilgiri plateau. Exp., tf 50, $ 60 millim, 



C. Abdomen crimson in both sexes. 

 a. Male with branches of antennae long. 



1173. Spilosoma montaimm, Guer. Voy, Deless. p. 92, pi. 26, fig. 3 ; 



C. Sf S. no. 783. 

 Spilosoma suffusa, Wlh. Cat iii, p. 677 ; C, $ S. no. 847. 



Differs from todarum in the palpi having the basal joint crimson ; 

 the shaft of antennae not tipped with white ; thorax with a blackish 

 stripe on vertex ; abdomen with the dorsal and lateral series of 

 spots prominent. Pore wing yellowish brown ; in one specimen 

 suffused with crimson ; the antemedial series only represented by 

 a spot above vein 2 ; the postmedial band much more excurved, 

 the spots composing it often conjoined ; an indistinct maculate 

 band between it and the submarginal band. Hind wing crimson 

 or buff ; a more or less complete submarginal series of spots, and 

 spot at end of cell. 



2 • Browner, with the black markings of both wings more 

 prominent. 



Hob. Punjab; Nilgiri plateau. Exp., 3 46, $ 54 millim. 



1174. Spilosoma strigatulum, Wlh. Cat. iii, p. 613 ; Moore, Lep. 



E. I. Co pi. 16, fig. 11 (larva;. 

 Spilosoma rubescens, Wlh. Cat. iii. p. 677 ; C. $ 8. no. 759. 



Antennae almost white ; head and thorax ochreous ; palpi black ; 

 femora crimson j abdomen crimson, with dorsal and lateral series 



