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SPILOSOMA. By M. Gaede. 
rava. 
batesi. 
maculosa. 
aequalis. 
schraderi. 
parddlina. 
rattrayi. 
yemcnensis. 
diver sata. 
investigato- 
rum. 
mhondaria. 
testacea. 
scioana. 
intensa. 
geminipunc- 
ta. 
sparsipunc- 
ta. 
diplosticha. 
inconspi- 
cua. 
sublatea. 
vieinlioffi. 
S. rava Drc. (12 f). Larger. With a paler, otherwise quite similar marking on the forewing as in 
bifurca. The subapical spots are prolonged forming a marginal band. Hindwing yellowish-white with a larger 
cellular spot and marginal spots. The marking on the forewing is often very obsolete. 44 to 50 mm. Gold Coast, 
Cameroon, Spanish Guinea. — batesi Bothsch. (12 f) differs from the type not only in the obsolete marking 
but also in the fine brown dotting of the forewing. 
Here follows a series of species with white, yellow and brownish forewings 
more or less densely covered with black dots and spots, the position of which is best 
seen from the figures. 
S. maculosa Stoll (= assimilis Hbn., indeterminata Wkr., macularia Wkr ., eyraJpenus Plotz ) (12 f). 
Head and thorax yellowish-white with black dots. Abdomen orange with black dorsal spots, at the beginning 
and end white. Forewing white or yellowish-white, rathSr uniformly covered with black rings filled up with 
grey. Hindwing white with a blackish spot at the cross-vein and some before the margin. -— aequalis Wkr. 
has oblong, somewhat confluent spots on the forewing. 36 to 44 mm. Everywhere in West, Central, and East 
Africa. 
S. schraderi Rothsch. is a maculosa with a yellowish hindwing. The spots on the forewing are small, 
grey, edged with black. 48 mm. Eritrea. 
S. pardalina Bothsch. Forewing yellowish-white. The spots are larger, combined to irregular transverse 
bands, otherwise similar to schraderi. Ths black margins on the abdomen are large. 50 mm. Uganda. 
S. rattrayi Hmps. (12 g). On the forewing only an angular median band is isolated, the other spots 
are irregularly placed. Hindwing yellowish white, in the $ with black marginal spots. 42 to 50 mm. Gold 
Coast, Cameroon, Uganda. 
S. yemcnensis Hmps. (12 g). Forewing white. Distinguished by the yellowish-grey head and thorax. 
The blackish spots on the forewing are combined to heaps. Hindwing only at the hind-margin yellowish. 42 mm. 
Arabia. 
S. diversata Hmps. (12 g). Forewing yellowish-white. The spots are grey, margined with black, 
united to an indistinct radial band; also at the costal margin and hind-margin the spots are more densely arranged. 
Hindwing white. 48 mm. Somaliland, Abyssinia. 
S. investigatorum Karsch (= cribraria Brtl.) (12 g). Forewing white. Arrangement of spots similar 
to that in diversata, but they are smaller and of a pure black. — mhondaria Brtl. (= nigropuncta B.-Bak.) has 
less numerous black dots. 36 to 50 mm. In the whole of Central and East Africa. 
The following species are smaller. Forewing of a pure yellow with numerous 
black dots. 
S. testacea Wkr. (= subflavescens Wkr.) (12 e). Ochreous-yellow, $ sometimes a little darker. 
Abdomen orange with black margins. Forewing with 4 rows of fine black double dots, at the median vein angular. 
Hindwing pale yellow with a black spot on the cross-vein. 32 to 40 mm. South Africa. 
S. scioana Oberth. (= abbottii Holl.) (12 f). Ochreous-brown instead of ochreous-yellow. Beside 
the suhbasal row of dots, which is rather more feebly developed, we notice, the best at the hind-margin, 4 bands 
of double dots. Hindwing paler with spots at the cross-vein and before the margin. In the $ the forewing is 
red-brown, the hindwing yellowish-brown. — intensa Bothsch. exhibits only 3 instead of 4 rows of dots behind 
the subbasal row, for which reason it would have to be a transition to testacea. 26 to 30 mm. Abyssinia, Delagoa 
Bay. 
S. geminipuncta Hmps. (12 g). Thorax ochreous-yellow. Abdomen ochreous-white. The fine black 
dots on the ochreous-yellow forewing similarly arranged as in diversata. Hindwing ochreous-white. 40 mm. 
Abyssinia. 
S. sparsipuncta Hmps. (12 h). Yellowish orange with a row of black dots. Forewing with pale brown 
spots below the base of the cell, in the cell-end and below it, and also before the distal margin. Hindwing at 
the hind-margin somewhat orange-yellow without spots. $ somewhat darker coloured. 38 mm. Madagascar. 
S. diplosticha Hmps. (12 h). Ochreous-yellow. Forewing with 3 rows of black dots. The middle 
row is incurved below the costal margin, then very much excurved, the distal row curved like an S. On the 
cross-vein some dots. Abdomen and hindwing orange-yellow with a black central dot. $ on the forewing only 
with some dots at the cross-vein. 40 mm. Natal. 
S. inconspicua Bothsch. (12 h) resembles a feebly marked diplosticha. Median band only indicated 
as a spot at the costal margin and hind-margin. Distal band more uniformly bent, terminating on the centre 
of the wing. The dots at the cross-vein are present. 30 mm. East Africa, Angola. 
S. sublutea Btlr. Thorax and forewing ochreous-yellow. The proximal and median rows of dots are 
only present at the costal margin and hind-margin. At the cross-vein there is no spot. The distal row, beginning 
from the hind-margin, differently far forward. - — meinlioffi Brtl. (12 h) is an intensely marked form and probably 
