. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. DIACRISIA. 317 1817. Diacrisia niceta. Bombyx niceta, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 308, 0 (1782); Kirby, Cut. Het. p. 912. Spilosoma metarhoda, Wlk. vii. 1695 (1856); Swinh. Cat. Ilet. Mus. Oxon. p. 184 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. Aretia eogena, Wlk. xxxi. 280 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. Areas Mjparhoda, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) x. p. 159 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 254. Areas semirosea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xix. p. 217 (1887); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 254. Head and t
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. DIACRISIA. 317 1817. Diacrisia niceta. Bombyx niceta, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 308, 0 (1782); Kirby, Cut. Het. p. 912. Spilosoma metarhoda, Wlk. vii. 1695 (1856); Swinh. Cat. Ilet. Mus. Oxon. p. 184 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 230. Aretia eogena, Wlk. xxxi. 280 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 232. Areas Mjparhoda, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) x. p. 159 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 254. Areas semirosea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xix. p. 217 (1887); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 254. Head and thorax orange; palpi crimson, the 3rd joint black ; frons tinged with crimson ; antennae black ; pectus, coxse, and femora crimson, the rest of legs black; abdomen crimson, with dorsal, lateral, and snblateral series of black spots. Fore wing orange or ochreons, with the interspaces brownish; a black point at base almost always present; an antemedial black spot above vein 1 usually present; a spot in end of cell almost always present; three. Fig. 143.—Diacrisia niceta, (^. \. spots between vein 2 and inner margin, sometimes reduced to two- or one or absent. Hind wiiig deep crimson, with black discoidal spot usually large ; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing crimson. Fore wing often with vein 10 anastomosing with 11. Hah. Philippines, Manilla, type t metarhoda in Mus. Oxon. ; Bat- CHiAN ( WaUaca), type t eogena in Mus. Oxon.; Amboina ; Gilolo : MiTsoL; Ternate ; t) ^Y {Wallace) ; N. Guinea, Kapaur (Do/ier^^/)' 1 (5, 1 $ ; LouisiADEs, St. Aignan {Meeh), 1 d", 1 $ ; N. Ireland' {G. Brown), 1 $ ; N. Britain, 1 cS ; Solomon Is. (Woodford, Matheiu), 3 S type semirosea ; Duke of York Is. {Matheiv), 2 2 type hyporlioda. Eocp., S 50, 5 60 millim. 1818. Diacrisia nebulosa. Bhyjparioides nebidosa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 396 (1877) • id. 111. Het. B. M. ii. p. 5, pi. 23. f. 2; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 250. Bhtjparioides simplicior, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1881, p. 6 ; Kirby
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