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Larva. Moore, Lcp. E. I. C. pi. 10. f. 12. 



Ulack, with lateral tufts of red-brown hair ; a lateral series of 

 scarlet spots ; dorsal, subdorsal, and subspiracular series of black 

 spots; 3rd, 4th, and 5th somites with sublateral spots, terminal 

 somite with two sjiots only. Eood-plant, Menis^ermum (jlahrum, 



1840. Amsacta negrita. (Plate XLVI. fig. 13.) 



Creatonotos negritus, Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 28 (1894) ; Swinh. A. M. N. H. 

 (6) xiv. p. 436. 



Head fuscous-black and white ; palpi scarlet below ; back of 

 head, edges of teguhc, stripes on shoulders, and stripes on fore and 

 mid femora above scarlet ; teguUe with black band, patagia with 

 black spots ; legs black and white ; abdomen orange above, white 

 below, with broad black bands and lateral faseia3, the anal tuft 

 white. Pore wing fuscous black, with white fascia^, in terminal 

 half of cell, submedian fold, and base of inner margin ; the costal 

 edge scarlet towards apex ; cilia white. Hind wing fuscous black, 

 with diffused white streaks in cell and basal half of submedian 

 fold ; cilia white. 



JIab. Assam, Khjisis, 1 c? 1 $ , type. Exp. 56 millim. 



1841. Amsacta moorei. 



Areas moorei, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 23 (1876); id. 111. Het. B. M.v. p. 28, 



pi. 85. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 27 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 224. 

 Aloa sara, Swiuh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 404 ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 223. 



Pure white ; palpi scarlet at sides, black at tips ; antennae black, 

 the basal joint and back of head scarlet ; streaks on shoulders, fore 

 coxae at sides, and femora above scarlet, the fore coxa3 with black 

 spots, the tibiae streaked and the tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen 

 scarlet, with short dorsal black bands and lateral series of spots, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing with scarlet costal fascia ; black 

 points at angles of cell. Hind wing with discoidal black lunule 

 and three almost terminal spots. 



Ab. ], Srtrrt. Patagia with black points ; abdomen with sublateral 

 black spots ; fore wing with ante- and postmedial black points 

 above vein 1. — Karachi. 



Ab. 2. Tegulse and thorax suffused with brown : abdomen with 

 the dorsal bands joining lateral fascia) ; fore wiug with diffused 

 brownish streaks below median nervure and above vein 1, and 

 interrupted postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then 

 incurved ; a subterminal spot above vein 5. 



J/ab. K.W. Himalayas, Almorah (Boijs), 1 S type ; Sixn, 

 Kanichi (Sivinhoe, Watson), 2 c? , 2 $ , type sai'a ; Tkiciiixopolx 

 (Fellows- Wilson), 1 $. Eay., c? 38-40, $ 44-54 millim. 



Larva. Pood-plant, groundnuts. * 



