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CATALOGUE OF 
Spilosoma CONSPURCATUM. 
Mas. Album , ex parte subtestacea ; capitis latera subtus palpique 
nigra; thorax fusco quadrimaculatus ; abdomen luteum ; alee 
anlicce gutta basali nigro-fusca , f asciis duabus latis obliquis 
guttisque nonnullis pallide fuscis ; posticce fascia lata inter - 
rupta submar ginali guttaque discali pallide fuscis. 
Male. White, slightly and partly tinged with testaceous. 
Head on each side beneath and palpi black. Antennae brownish. 
Thorax with two dorsal brown spots in front, and with four lateral 
brown spots. Abdomen luteous. Fore wings with a dark brown 
basal dot, and with two pale brown broad irregular oblique bands, 
which are accompanied by some pale brown dots. Hind wings with 
a pale brown much interrupted submarginal band, and with a discal 
dot of the same hue. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 13 
lines. 
a. Java. From the East India Company’s collection. 
Genus ISIA. 
Mas et feem . Corpus vix robustum. Proboscis brevissima. 
Palpi breves, porrecti, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us minutus, 
conicus. Antennse simplices, subsetosae, thorace multo longiores. 
Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes sat graciles; tibiae 
posticae calcaribus quatuor mediocriter longis. Alae latiusculae, 
apud costam subconvexae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore sat 
obliquo. 
Body hardly stout. Proboscis very short. Palpi short, por- 
rect, not extending beyond the head; third joint minute, conical. 
Antennae simple and minutely setose in both sexes, much longer 
than the thorax. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. 
Legs rather slender ; hind tibiae with four moderately long spurs. 
Wings rather broad. Fore wings hardly convex in front, slightly 
rounded at the tips, moderately oblique along the exterior border ; 
first, second and third inferior veins almost contiguous at the base ; 
fourth remote. 
1. IslA INTRICATA. 
Mas et foem. Albida ; caput supra luteum ; palpi nigri ; abdo- 
men luteum , maculis dorsalibus nigris ; tibice basi tarsique 
nigra; alee antic ce f asciis quatuor obliquis fuscis, 1 a 3a 4 aque 
interrupt is, \a duplicata, 2 a lata, venis luteis ; posticce sub- 
lute ce, f asciis duabus interruptis aut subobsoletis fuscis. 
