334 ARCTIAD^, 



Hah. W. China, Ichang {Pratt), 2 S ; Formosa (ffobson, Seebohn), 

 2 S ; Nepal (Hardwicl-e), 2 c? , 1 $ ; Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 J ; 

 Bombay (SivinJioe), 1 d ; Nilgiris {Hampson), 1 cj' ; Cetlox {Temple- 

 ion, Lewis, Green, Yerbury), 6 c5',2 $ , type continuatus ; Burma, 

 Moulmein {Olerh), 1 $, Raugoon {Scott), 3 c?, 2 $, Mandalay 

 {Carpenter), 1 $ ; Singapore {Ridley), 3 c? ; Java, Ba.tavia {Andrews), 

 1 $ ; N. Australia, Adelaide R. '{J. J. Walker), 1 c? , 2 $ . iJ.r^j., 

 c? 38, 5 40 millim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 362, pi. 17. ff. 1, 1 ff. 



Black, sparsely clothed with long hair ; head marked with white; 

 a yellow dorsal stripe with series of orange spots on it ; prolegs 

 pale. 



1849. Creatonotus leucanioides. (Plate XLVI. fig. 5.) 



Creatonotus leucanioides, Holl. Psyche, ri. p. .397 (1893). 



S . Head and thorax brownish white ; sides of frons and antennae 

 black; eyes with radiating black bars; tegulae and thorax with 

 black dorsal fascia ; pectus and legs blackish ; streaks below the 

 wings and upperside of femora crimson ; abdomen crimson, with 

 dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface brown. 

 Fore wing semihy aline brownish white ; a black fascia from base 

 below the cell ; a minute black point in lower angle of cell and 

 short streak just beyond it ; a short subtermiual streak above 

 vein 5. Hind wing almost hyaline white. 



Hah. Cameroons, Ogowe E,., type f c? in Coll. Holland. Exjj. 

 40 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing without the black fascia below the cell ; 

 hind wing tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Austen), 1 J • 



1850. Creatonotus punctivitta. (Plate XLYI. fig. 20). 



Spilosoma punctivitta, Wlk. iii. 673 (1855) ; Kirby, Oat, Het. p. 242. 



(5 . Brownish white ; palpi yellow, black at tips ; sides of frons 

 and antenna3 black ; pectus and legs brown, the fore coxse at sides 

 and femora above orange ; abdomen crimson above, grey at sides, 

 brown below, some yellow hair on sides at base ; dorsal and lateral 

 series of black spots, anal tuft pale at tips. Fore wing with black 

 fascia below the cell to just beyond origin of vein 2 ; points in 

 upper angle of cell and in and beyond lower angle ; a short sub- 

 terminal streak above vein 1. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, with 

 black point in upper angle of cell. 



Hah. Natal {Gueinzius) , 2 J type, Durban {Lines), 1 cS ■ J^^rp. 

 42 millim. 



1851. Creatonotus transiens. 



Spilosoma transiens, Wlk. iii. 675 (1855) ; Hm^jsn. Moths led. ii. p. 29 ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 243. 



