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DIACRISIA. By Dr. W. v. Rothschild. 
erythro- 
phleps. 
everetti. 
comma. 
sparsalis. 
canescens. 
stigmata. 
aurantiaca. 
lacteata. 
meridiona- 
lis. 
cyrnbalopho- 
roides. 
pseudolutea. 
D. erythrophleps Hmps. (21 b). Head and thorax reddish, orange-yellow, tegulae and shoulder-covers 
dotted black; antennae black; abdomen reddish orange with black transverse bands. Forewing reddish, orange, 
all the veins broadly fiery red, and the wing studded with confluent, smoky blackish-grey spots. Hindwing 
creamy-white, with large, smoky blackish-grey spots and bands. Length of forewing: 27 mm. Naga Hills in 
Assam. 
D. everetti Roth.sch. (19 b). <$: antennae black, strongly combed; head, thorax and abdomen dark 
pale orange. Forewing dark pale orange, 2 spots two fifths from the base on each side of the subcostal vein, 
another above vein 1 and a postmedian transverse row of spots from the costa to the proximal margin brown. 
Hindwing pale orange. Length of forewing: 15 mm. South Flores. 
D. comma Wkr. (= abdominalis Moore) (Vol. II, t. 15 cl). Antennae black; head and thorax ochreous 
flesh-coloured, sides of forehead black, abdomen carmine with black dorsal and lateral rows of dots. Forewing 
ochreous flesh-coloured, a small, triangular, antemedian spot on the costa, a postmedian costal spot, a band¬ 
shaped spot on the middle of the proximal margin, a spot above it and sometimes some spots between the 
proximal margin and vein 3 black. Hindwing whitish-yellow or creamy-white, with a faint, dark discoidal spot, 
the proximal margin with a pink hue. Length of forewing: 22, $ 27 mm. North West India. (Further parti¬ 
culars see Vol. II, p. 86 under Spilarctia comma). 
D. sparsalis Wkr. (21 b). $: antennae black, head lactean, sides of head black; thorax creamy-white, 
median line brown, on the tegulae and shoulder-covers black dots; abdomen scarlet, with dorsal and lateral 
rows of black dots. Forewing ochreous-white, 4 large, square spots on the costa black, 2 oblique, brown, ante- 
median spots below the cell, a similar spot on the discocellulars and one on vein 6, an angled postmedian, oblique 
transverse row of brown spots between the veins, terminating into a very large spot at the proximal margin, 
and an irregular, transverse row between the postmedian row and the distal margin black, fringes dotted brown. 
Hindwing scarlet, the discoidal spot and 7 submarginal dots black. Length of forewing: 33 mm. Celebes. 
D. canescens Wkr. (= obliqua Wkr.) (21 c). Antennae black; head creamy-white, the sides of the 
forehead black; sides of neck scarlet; thorax creamy-white, a blackish-brown stripe on the shoulders is above 
margined with red; abdomen scarlet, with dorsal and lateral rows of black dots. Forewing creamy-white, a 
dot at the base, a sharply angled, oblique, antemedian transverse band from the costa to the median, spots 
on both sides of vein 2 and above vein 1, a postmedian transverse row of spots flowing together at vein 3 
with a row of spots proceeding from the apex, and an interrupted submarginal row of dots blackish-brown. 
Hindwing white, a discoidal spot and six, often very much veiled submarginal spots blackish-brown. Australia. 
D. stigmata Moore (21 c). Antennae and the lower part of the forehead black; head and thorax very 
light, maize-coloured, a median streak on the thorax black; abdomen carmine, covered with long, white hairs 
and with dorsal and lateral rows of black spots. Forewing light maize-coloured, a subbasal cell-streak, a median 
transverse row of spots and an interrupted, irregular submarginal row of short streaks black. Hindwing white 
with 5 black submarginal spots. In the $ the black spots are reduzed in size. — In ab. aurantiaca ah. nov. the 
abdomen is orange-yellow. — ab. lacteata Btlr. is coloured much lighter. — Length of forewing: <$ 21, $ 27 mm. 
— Larva black, head and hair-tuft on the anal segment reddish yellowish-brown, tubercles with dirty white 
and black hair-tufts. West China and North India. For further particulars see Vol. II, p. 86. 
D. meridionalis Roth.sch. (21 c). Forehead and tegulae creamy-white; antennae black; thorax black, 
margined by creamy-white; abdomen bright red with rows of black spots. Forewing creamy-white, strewn 
with square, large, smoky-black spots. Hindwing creamy-white with a smoky-black discoidal dot, transverse 
band and distal margin. Length of forewing: 23 mm. South Australia. 
D. cymbalophoroides Rothsch. (19 c). head creamy-white; antennae dark brown with a white 
end; thorax black, margined with a creamy white. Abdomen dull pink with a median row of black spots. Fore¬ 
wing lactean, with irregular, large, black spots and bands. Hindwing light whitish-pink with several greyish- 
black spots. The $ has black forewings with creamy-white spots, a creamy-white distal margin and with a 
creamy-white longitudinal band from the base to the distal margin above vein 1. The dark spots on the hindwing 
are very much enlarged. Length of forewing: 25, $ 31 mm. Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores, Lombok). 
D. pseudolutea Rothsch. (19 b and 21 e). In the text of Vol. II it is omitted, and I should place it 
near D. stigmata, p. 86. Comp. Vol. II, Additions, p. 436. antennae black; head and thorax pale orange- 
yellow; abdomen orange-yellow, a basal spot, the lateral rows of spots and the two penultimate segments black 
