CREAXONOTUS. nYPHANTRIA. 335 



Amphbsa vaciUans, Wlk. iii. 085 (1855) ; Bull. 111. Ilet. B. M. iii. p. 5, 



pi. ^2. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 243. 

 Aloa isabellina, \Ylk. iii. 703 (1855). 



Head and thorax white, very sliglitly tinged with brown ; 3rd 

 joint of palpi, sides of frons,and autcnntc black ; legs streaked with 

 black, the femora orange above ; abdomen orange above, the 

 extremity of anal tuft and ventral surface white ; dorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of small black spots. Fore wing white, the 

 interspaces tinged with brown except the costal area ; black points 

 in and beyond upper and lower angles of cell ; short subtermiual 



Fig. 150. — Creatonotus transiens, (S . \. (From Moths lud. vol. ii.) 



striae sometimes present above veins 5 and 1, Hind wing white ; 

 sometimes with subterminal points above veins 5 and 1. 



Ab. 1. vaciUans. Fore wing uniform brown except the costal 

 area ; hind wing brown with the cilia white. 



Ilah. China, Ichang {Pratt), 1 6 , Hongkong {J. J. WaJker), 1 S , 

 1 2 type vaciUans ; Formosa (Hobson), 2 2 ', N.W. Himalayas, 

 Sultanpur (6r, Young), 2 d" , 1 5 , Kumaon ; Sikhim, 1 c? , 1 $ ; 

 Ass.AM, Sylhet, 1 (^ , 3 $ , type and type isaheMina ; Nilgiris 

 {Hampson), 3 cJ , 1 2 ; Burma, Moulmein {CJerh), 1 5 ; EoEXEf^, 

 Sandakau (Pryer), 1 r? , Sarawak ( WaUace), 4 c? , 1 $ ; Java 

 (Horsjiekl), 2 (^ , 1 $ ; Celebes (WaUace), 1 $ ; Philippines, 1 c5" , 

 1 ?. I^xj}., d 50, 2 60 millim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 290, pi. 13. f. 5. 



Black blotched with red-brown, and with tufts of red-brown hair, 

 the lateral tufts arising from rufous tubercles ; a broad dorsal 

 white stripe ; head black marked with white. Food-plant, Galing 

 (? Cissus). 



Genus HYPHANTRIA. 



Type. 



Ilypkantria, Harr. Ins. Mass. p. 255 (1841) . . cunca. 



Alexkles, Grote, Trans. Kansas Ae. Sci. viii. p. 4(5 (1883) a.^persa. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons and clotlied 

 with long hair; head and thorax clothed with long rough hair; antennai of 

 male with the branches moderate ; lore tibiae with enry(d claw on inner side 

 and sliort claw on outer ; hind tibiic with the medial ^purs absent. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 Irom close to angle of cell ; 5 from or fmrn above angle ; ti from 

 upjier angle; 7, 8, 1), 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



