. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SIM \. 415 ISllrr. Spilosoma vivida. Aloa vivida, Wileman, Kntom. xliii. p. 246 (1910); Mats. Thousand Ins. Jap., Suppl. iii. pi. xxxv. ff. 3, 22. Antenna of male serrate on upperside, pectinate on lower. 6. Head and thorax rufous; palpi crimson at base, black at tips; lower part of frons black; antennae black; a crimson bar behind the eves; fore coxa' and the femora above crimson, the tibiae and tarsi black above ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface rufous, dorsal and lateral series of small black spots except at ba
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SIM \. 415 ISllrr. Spilosoma vivida. Aloa vivida, Wileman, Kntom. xliii. p. 246 (1910); Mats. Thousand Ins. Jap., Suppl. iii. pi. xxxv. ff. 3, 22. Antenna of male serrate on upperside, pectinate on lower. 6. Head and thorax rufous; palpi crimson at base, black at tips; lower part of frons black; antennae black; a crimson bar behind the eves; fore coxa' and the femora above crimson, the tibiae and tarsi black above ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface rufous, dorsal and lateral series of small black spots except at base and extremity. Pore wing rufous; a small antemedial black spot above vein l"; an oblique series of black points from below apex to. Fig. 92.—Spilosoma vivida, J. inner margin beyond middle, almost obsolete from below vein 6 to above 2 ; slight subterminal black points between veins 5 and 3. Hind wing crimson ; a minute discoidal black point; cilia pale at tips. Underside of fore wing crimson. 5 . Frons black at sides only ; bind wing with black discoidal spot and subterminal spots below vein 2 and on vein 1 nearer termen ; underside of fore wing with black discoidal spot. Hab. Formosa (Mtoes), 1 6, Kanshirei (Wileman), 1 J, type fd, $ in Coll. Wileman. Exp., 6 30, $ GO millim. 1812. Spilosoma lineata, insert (syn.) :— Spilosoma albida, Bartel, Iris, xvi. p. 180 (1903). " Germ. E. Africa," Dar-es-Salaam; cotype t $ in Mus. Berlin. Larva. Fawcett, Trans. Zool. Soc. xv. p. 315, pi. xlix. f. 15 (1900). Dark fuscous; each somite with six large and two small black tubercles bearing tufts of black hair; dorsal line pale ferruginous, darker at apex of each somite ; ventral surface paler; head and legs black ; spiracles ferruginous. Food-plant : Passiflora. *1813 a. Spilosoma butti. Diacrisia butti, Roths. Nov. Zool. rvii. p. 126, pi. 14. f. 42 (1910). <$. Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow, the tips of tegulae and a streak on dorsum of thorax orange; palpi
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