20 ARCTIID^E. 



medial band, which is broken up into two highly-irregular patches ; 

 the submarginal spots five in number. 



Fig. 6. Pangora rubelliana, $ . |. 



$ with a nearly complete medial band to hind wing. 

 Hob. Canara ; Nilgiris, W. slopes. Rrp., rf 50, $ 58 millim. 



1212. Pangora matherana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 396 ; Waterh. 



Aid, ii, pi. 131, fig. 6 ; C. 8? S. no. 777. 



$ . Differs from rubelliana in having all the crimson parts 

 orange ; the medial irregular patches of fore wing conjoined. 

 Hob. Bombay ; Matheran. Exp. 60 millim. 



Genus ALPHJEA. 



Alpha*, Wlk. Cat. iii, p. 683 (1855). 

 Nyaca, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 43 (1879). 

 Rajendra, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 43. 



Type, A. fulvohirta, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java. 



Palpi short and hairy, extending beyond the frons. Hind tibiae 

 with two pairs of spurs. Pore wing rather long and narrow. 

 Venation as in Spilosoma. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male with short branches, of female serrate. 

 A. Abdomen of male clothed with long hair. 



1213. Alphsea fulvohirta, Wlk. Cat. iii, p. 684 ; Butl. III. Het. v, 



pi. 85, fig. 8 ; C. $ S. no. 859. 



Palpi and frons black ; vertei 

 of head white ; collar white, 

 striped with black and slightly 

 fringed with yellow ; thorax 

 black ; tegulse white, striped 

 with black. Abdomen orange 

 above, the underside white, 

 banded and spotted with black. 

 Fig. 7. Pore wing smoky black, the veins 



Alphaa fulvohirta, <$ . \. pale and witn numerous w hit e 



spots in the interspaces. Hind wing white, with some blaciv 



