CRK.VTONOTUS. 



Fore wing orange-yellow ; a black point at base ; a broad black 

 fascia above vein 1 from near base to beyond middle, wbere it is 

 booked, to just above inner margin; the apical area black-brown 

 narrowing to a point atsubmedian fold and emitting a streak just 

 below costa to middle. Mind wing black-brown, a terminal yellow 

 band narrowing to a point at tornus and with slightly sinuous 

 inner edge. 



5. Differs from the subspecies aurantiaca in the fore wing 

 being orange-yellow; bind wing with the oblique patch extending 

 to vein 5 and with a small spot on costa just before apex. 



ab. 1. Hind wing with the spot on costa much enlarged. 



ah. 2. Hind wing with the spot on costa absent. 



I lab. Dorev (Dolerty), type t S, $ in Coll. Kothschild ; 

 Dutch N. Guinea, Humboldt Hay. Exp., 6 40, 2 5(3 millim. 



*184o c. Creatoiiotus gracilis. (Plate LXI. fig. 17.) 



Spilosoma gracilis, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 354, pi. 5. f. 13 (1899) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 365. 



J. Pale ochreous; palpi scarlet above, the 3rd joint black; 

 antennae black with the basal joint scarlet ; tarsi banded with 

 black, the fore coxae in front and femora above scarlet; abdomen 

 dorsally scarlet with lateral and ventral series of black spots. 

 Fore wing with the costal edge orange-red ; a curved antemedial 

 series of three black spots below costa and cell and above vein 1 ; 

 small black lunules in and beyond upper angle of cell and a point 

 beyond lower angle ; two small obliquely placed postmedial spots 

 below costa, one above vein 2 and two above inner margin. Hind 

 wing with the inner area rather yellower ; a black discoidal spot. 



Hub. Palestine, Dead Sea, in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 40 millim. 



1847. Creatonotus vittata, insert : — 



ab. buret, Strand, Arch. Naturg-. lxxviii. A. 12. p. 124(1913). — Cameroons- 



1S47 a. Creatonotus neurophsea. (Plate LXI. fig. IS.) 



Creatonotus neurophsea, Hnipsn. A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 409 (1911). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen white; palpi above and sides of 

 frons black; antenna.- blackish; black spots above frons and on 

 tegulae and patagia ; throat with tufts of blackish hair ; fore coxae 

 and the femora above orange-yellow, the tibia? and tarsi blackish in 

 front. Fore wing pure white; a black spot at base and discoidal 

 point; vein 1 from before middle and the veins arising from cell 

 exfeept on costal area slightly streaked with blackish. Hind wing- 

 pure white with black discoidal point. 



Hab. W. Africa (M. Pounds), 1 6 type; Gold Coast, 

 Bibianaha (Spurrell) 2 S , Kumasi (Sanders) 1 d . Exp. 

 ■10 millim. 



