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small dorsal and eight lateral tubercles of paler red on each with tufts of reddish 

 hair arising from them ; legs red, claspers pale red. Food-plants almost 

 anything. (W. H. Campbell.) 



Genus Creatonotus. Type. 



Creatonotus, Hiibn. Verz., p. 169 (1827) gangis. 



Amphissa, Wlk., III., 084(1855) transiens. 



Phissama, Moore Lep. E. I. C, p. 362 (1859) transiens. 



A. Abdomen crimson above -. gaugis. 



B. Abdomen orange above * 1242. transiens. 



1231. Creatonotus interruptus, insert Phalana gangis, Linn. Amcen. Acad. 



VI., p. 410 (1764), which has precedence. 



Genus Estigmene. Type. 



Estigmene, Hiibn. Verz., p. 184 (1827) acraa. 



Phaos, Wlk., III., 627 (1855) interjixa. 



Leucarctia, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad., III., p. 124 (1864) acraa. 



Epilacydes, Butl. Cist. Ent . II., p. 27 (1875) ...., simidans. 



Nyaca, Moore Lep. Atk., p. 43 (1879) ..„ florescens. 



Nayaca, Moore Lep. Atk., p. 43 (1879)... imbuta. 



Rajendra, Moore Lep. Atk., p. 43 (1879) biguttata. 



Sect. I. {Estigmene). Antennas of male bipectinate with moderate branches. 



A. Abdomun dorsally crimson. 



a. Hindwing with the ground-color yellow ...1215. imbuta. 



b. Hindwing with the ground-color white 1214. florescens. 



B. Abdomen dorsally orange 1210. quadriramosa. . 



Sect. II. {Rajendra) Antennas of male serrate. 



A. Forewing with the ground-color blackish. 



a. Forewing with maculate white patches ......... ceyhnensis. 



b. Forewing with white fascia. 



a 1 . Forewing with the white fascia bent below 

 end of cell, then running to apex. 

 a' 1 . Forewing with the upper edge of the fascia 

 slightly excised beyond lower angle of 



cell „ irregularis. 



h" 1 . Forewing with the upper edge of the 



fascia not excised beyond the cell perrotteti. 



&'. Forewing with the fascia regularly curved 



to apex 1219. vittata. 



c. Forewing black with hardly a trace of fascia.. .1221. nigricans, 



B. Forewing with the ground-color white. 



a. Forewing mostly suffused with black 1236. negrita, 



b. Forewing not suffused with black 1235. laclinea. 



1220a. Estigmene ceylonensis, Hmpsn, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. hi,, p. 347, 



pi. xlvii, f. 9 (1901). 



