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DIACRISIA. By Dr. W. v. Rothschild. 
malayensis. 
cireoscopa. 
fumvpennis. 
simplex. 
punctistri- 
(jata. 
avola. 
nigrifrons. 
neglecta. 
rhodophila. 
wing cream-coloured, a broad, brown transverse band extends from the middle of the proximal margin, where 
it is broadest, right before the apex to the costa; two similar bands extend from the costa, one at the discoidal 
veins, the other covering the basal half of the cell; they are fused with the principal band, forming two forks; 
a brown spot in the cell, one on the costa, one below the median, one on vein 1 and 6 at the veins near the 
distal margin. Hindwing cream-coloured, 2 brown dots on each side of vein 3 and a similar band extending 
from the anal angle to beyond vein 2. $ larger, the principal transverse band of the forewing double from the 
proximal margin to vein 4. Length of forewing: $ 18 mm, $ 25 mm. Philippines and the Large Suncla Islands. 
— Larva violettish-grey with a red-brown head and darker striae, long and thin, black-haired; dorsal tubercles 
dark, at the sides of the dorsum small, white spots; spiracles and subspiracular tubercles red; above and below 
the spiracles light stripes; pectoral and ventral feet yellow. Found in December and January on Convolvulus, 
Dioscorea and Erythoina. -— malayensis Hmps. (20 c) is distinguished by the red, black-spotted abdomen and 
the narrow bands of the forewings, the yellow abdominal margin of the $ hindwing, the rosy abdomen and 
the bands of the $ wings being reduced to small spots. Bali and Lombok. -- areoscopa Trnr. (20 c) differs 
in the $ by the stronger bands of the forewings, the light rosy hindwings, and in the $ by the bands of the 
forewings being broken up into rows of dots and the principal band being double in its whole length. From 
North Australia. 
M. fumipennis Hmps. (19 a). Head and thorax brownish-yellow; abdomen reddish greyish-brown 
with yellowish-brown bands. Forewing reddish greyish-brown, costa yellowish-brown. Hindwing very thinly 
scaled, reddish greyish-brown. Length of forewing: 15 mm. Nilgiri Mountains. 
M. simplex Wkr. (20 d). Head and thorax ochreous-yellow; antennae black; abdomen golden yellow 
with black dots. Forewings ochreous-yellow, hindwings yellowish-white. Length of forewing: q 14 mm, $ 
16 mm. South India. 
M. punctistrigata B.-Bak. (20c). chest golden yellow; antennae black; head and thorax cream- 
coloured, tegulae margined with golden yellow; abdomen golden yellow, anal tuft white. Forewing creamy- 
white, at the costa 4 black spots, from the second of which a liver-coloured brown transverse band extends 
across the middle of the cell to the proximal margin, a similar band being double from vein 4, extends from 
the apex to the proximal margin, some brown dots in the cell and at the veins. Hindwings white. $ much 
larger, the transverse band not double, but forked beginning from vein 5. Length of forewing: 18 mm, $ 
28 mm. South East New Guinea. 
M. avola B.-Bak. (20 d) differs from punctistrigata B.-Bak. by the straight first transverse band and 
the single, not partly double second oblique transverse band of the in the $ the first transverse band is 
straight and the second oblique band broadly interrupted and very much reduced. South New Guinea. 
7. Genus: BKacrisia Hbn. 
Differs from Maenas by the abdomen being more smoothly scaled; the tibiae only plainly fringed with 
hair. Vein 3 of the forewing rises nearer at the lower cell-angle; 5 and 6 branch off either from or a little above 
the two cell-angles; 7, 8, 9, 10 are petioled; 11 from the cell. Vein 3 of the hindwing rises close at the lower 
cell-angle; 8 from the angle or above it; 6, 7 from the upper angle or on a short footstalk; 8 about from the 
middle of the cell. Hereto belong most of the species enumerated among the ,,Spilosominae“ in Vol. II, 
which are distributed there among the previously used names of genera: Spilosoma, Spilarctia etc. About 
180 to 200 forms, of which about 136 belong to our fauna; comp. Vol. II, p. 84 to 92 and t. 15 and 17. 
D. nigrifrons Wkr. (20 d). <J: palpi black; head white; antennae whitish, the male ones with dark 
grey comb-teeths; tegulae golden yellow; thorax white; abdomen yellow with a median row and one lateral 
row each of minute black dots. Forewing white with an oblique row of light greyish-yellow, almost faded dots 
between the veins 1 and 5. Hindwings white. In the $ the lateral rows of the abdomen consist of much larger, 
confluent black spots, and the last segment exhibits a large anal tuft. Length of forewing: 18 mm, $ 
22 mm. India. 
D. neglecta Rothsch. (20 g). head and thorax white; antennae dark grey; abdomen yellow, except 
the 3 basal segments and the last segment being white, with lateral rows of half hidden, black dots. Wings 
white. $ similar, though larger, abdominal spots and anal tuft very large, and on the abdomen a dorsal row 
of black spots. In the hindwing a faint, dark stigma. Length of forewing: $ 19 mm, $ 22 mm. India. 
D. rhodophila Wkr. (= rubridorsa Moore, dorsalis Moore) (20 h and. Vol. I, p. 86, t. 15 c). Palpi and 
chest red; head creamy-white; antennae black; thorax creamy-white; abdomen rosy-red with lateral rows 
