lepidoptera heterocera. 
1695 
V Page 679. 
Spilosgma metarhoda. 
Foem. Album ; palpi rosei ; apice nigri ; abdomen supra roseum , 
maculis dorsalibus nigris , subtus e guttis nigris bivittatum ; 
pedes rufo strigati , ex parte nigri ; alee anticce albido-cervince , 
guttis paucis nigris ; posticce roseee. 
Female . White. Palpi rose-colour, with black tips. Antennae 
black. Abdomen above rosy red, with black dorsal spots ; under 
side with two rows of black dots along each side. Legs streaked 
with red, partly black. Fore wings whitish fawn-colour, with a 
black dot at the base, with another on the discal areolet, with two 
by the interior border, and with one near the interior border and at 
a short distance from the base ; under side rosy red, as are also the 
hind wings, which have a black discal dot beneath. Length of the 
body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 
Manilla. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
Spilosoma curvatum. 
Alee testacece ; anticce fasciola curvata punctisque nigris ; posticce 
basi rosece nigroque bifasciatce. 
Bombyx curvata, Donov . Epit. Ins . New Holl. pi. 
Spilosoma curvata, BoiscL Voy . de l’ Astrolabe, Pt. 1. Lep. 222, 3. 
New Holland. 
Spilosoma? Begga. 
Album ; pedes lutei , tarsis nigris ; alee anticce costa nigra . 
Phalaena-Bombyx Begga, Cram. Pap . Exot. iv. 125, pi. 355, f. E, 
Stoll, Suppl. pi. 19, f. 3, 3 E. Anon. Ins. Surinam , 59, pi. 
29, 6. 1 
Laria Begga, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. ( Phalcence Veree Leucomce Albce ), 
159, 1658. 
Surinam. 
Spilosoma? Zatima. 
Testaceum ; caput et thorax anticus nigra ; abdomen nigrum, basi 
apieeque testaceum ; alee testaceo venosee et ciliatce, anticce 
vitta discali testacea . 
