. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. DIACRI8IA. 2^7 1751. Diacrisia canescens. (Plate XLV. fig. 4.) Spilosoma ohliqua, Wlk. iii. 079 (1855), $ (nee c?). Ardices canescens, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 29 (1875); Kirby, Cat. Het, p. 239. Yellowish white; palpi scarlet, the 3rd joint black; sides of frons and antennae black; neck scarlet at sides; shoulders with black-brown stripe with scarlet upper edge; legs striped with blackish, fore coxae blackish edged with scarlet, the femora scarlet above; abdomen
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. DIACRI8IA. 2^7 1751. Diacrisia canescens. (Plate XLV. fig. 4.) Spilosoma ohliqua, Wlk. iii. 079 (1855), $ (nee c?). Ardices canescens, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 29 (1875); Kirby, Cat. Het, p. 239. Yellowish white; palpi scarlet, the 3rd joint black; sides of frons and antennae black; neck scarlet at sides; shoulders with black-brown stripe with scarlet upper edge; legs striped with blackish, fore coxae blackish edged with scarlet, the femora scarlet above; abdomen scarlet above, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing with black-brown spot on base of costa ; an antemedial maculate line very oblique from costa to median nervure, where it is acutely angled, then represented by spots on each side of vein 2 and above vein 1 ; a point in upper angle of cell; a maculate postmedial line, excurved from below costa to vein 3, where it is joined by an oblique series of irregular spots from apex, then oblique ; a subterminal series of points on each side of veins 5 to 3 ; some points on medial part of termen and at tornus ; some points sometimes present on inner area beyond the postmedial line. Hind wing white ; a discoidal spot; subterminal spots on each side of veins 5, 2, and 1, sometimes much reduced. Hob. N". S. Wales, Sydney {Brencliley^ Matheiu), 6 cj*, 4 $ , type and type ohliqua $ . Exp., S 44, $ 54 millim. 1752. Diacrisia stigmata. Spilosoma stigTuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 809 ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. Spilarctia lacteata, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. p. 31, pi. 85. f. 10 (1881) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 10; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. Fig. 141.—Diacrisia stigmata, J. \. (From Moths Ind. vol ii.) S. Pale buff; palpi, lower part of frons, antennae, a streak on vertex of thorax, pectus in front, patches on fore coxae, and stripes on legs black; fore coxae at sides and femo
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