5U LEUCANIID^. 



LEUCANIID^. 



ALETIA, Hdbii. 

 Aletia exanthemata. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 6.) 

 Aletia exanthemata, Moore, Proc. Zool. &oc. ISSS, p. 410. 



Nearest to A. vitellina of Europe ; a little deeper in colouring : the secondaries more 

 suffused with brown ; the two lines limiting the central belt closer together and much less 

 angular ; an additional oblique line beyond the ccutral belt, its upper extremity uniting with 

 the submarginal line on the last subcostal branch ; the submargiual line more distinctly 

 undulated ; all the lines dotted with black upon the veins ; a marginal series of black dots : 

 collar of the male traversed by a blackish line. Expanse of wings, s 35 millim., ? 40 millim. 



Dharmsala ; at sugar, July and August. 



Aletia rudis. (Plate CXXVI. figs. 7, 8.) 

 Aletia rudis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sac. 1888, p. 411. 



Closely allied to A. Uthargyria of Euro])e; both sexes coloured like the female of that 

 species, but witliout a trace of the dark transverse lines indicating the limits of the central 

 belt of the primaries, but with a series of small black lunules across the disc ; the whole 

 surface of these wings being, moreover, more or less distinctly transversely striated with 

 ochreous; secondaries greyer. Expanse of wiugs, d 37 millim., 2 H millim. 



Dharmsala ; at sugar. 



Aletia fraterna. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 'J.) 

 Aletia fraterna, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 410. 



Near to A. litharyyria; rather larger and more pink in colouring; the primaries without 

 the ordinary lines or black dots, but striated as in the preceding sjiecics ; the veins and costal 

 margin white. Expanse of wings 48 millim. 



Dharmsala ; at sugar. 



It is possible that A. fraterna (the unique spccinu'u of which was associated by Mr. 

 Hocking with A. ulbicosta of the same author) may turn out to l)e nothing more than a well- 

 marked variety of A. albicosta : it differs, nevertheless, in the absence of the orange markings 

 and black dots on the primaries, and in its generally more rosy coloration, in which 

 characters it more nearly approaches A. rudis. 



