AMSACTA.. — CKFATONOTUS. 



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nntcnnfc black ; back of head, stripes on shoulders, fore coxtr and 

 femora above yellow ; patagia with black points, legs striped with black, 

 the tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen orange-yellow, the ventral 

 surface white, a dorsal series of short black bands, and lateral and 

 sublateral series of black spots. Tore wing pale brown ; the costa 

 yellow ; a subcostal fascia, the veins, a stripe in and beyond end of 

 cell, aiid another in medial part of submedian fold white ; two 

 discoidal black points ; traces of a curved antemedial lino ; a more 

 distinct postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved to below origin of vein 2. Hind wing pure white, with 

 black discoidal lunule and four subterminal spots sometimes more 

 or less conjoined. 



Uab. Ganjam; Madras, 1 6 ; Coimbatore {^Yalhouse), 1 S 

 type. Erp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, groundnuts. 



Genus CREATONOTUS. ^ 



Type. 



Creaimotos, Hiibn. Verz. p. 169 (1827) cjanfiiA. 



Amphissa, ^Ylk. iii. 084 (1855) travsiens. 



rhissama, Moore, Lap. E. I. C. p. 362 (1851)) ' transiens. 



Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond tlie frons ; liead and 

 thorax smootlily scaJed ; hind tibire with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing 

 with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 1), \() stalked ; 

 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from just above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate. 



A. Abdomen crimson above arahica. 



B. Abdomen orange above jnarginalis. 



1845. Creatonotiis arabica. 

 Spilosoma arabicum, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1896. p. 258, pi. x. f. 25. 



Fig. 148. — Creatonotus arabica , c?. {. 



Ih'ownish grey ; palpi black above, tinged with crimson below; 

 antenna) black, the bastd joint crimson; neck crimson; patagia 

 with black sijots; legs banded with blaclv ; fore coxa) and femora 

 above tinged with crimson ; abdomen crimson above, with dorsal, 

 lateral, and sublateral series of Ijlack spots. Fore wing sometimes 

 with black costal fascia ; some black points at base ; an antemedial 

 series of four spots from costa to below cell and two nearer the 

 base on each side of vein 1 ; a discoidal si)ot and three points at 

 lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of spots curved from costa 



