1872.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 573 



legs blackish brown ; femora red above ; abdomen red above, with 

 a dorsal and lateral row of blackish spots ; tegulse and a narrow 

 band on front of thorax and head pale testaceous ; a black spot on 

 each tegula. Underside of wings as above. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hub. Bombay {Dr. Leith) ; Deccan (Dr. Day). In Coll. 

 F. Moore. 



Aloa sipahi. 



Male and female. Fore wing brown, with numerous more or less 

 confluent reddish-white spots from the base, and extending along 

 the disk to near the apex, above which and proceeding from the 

 costa are two or three sets of three inwardly oblique confluent spots ; 

 a row of small spots along exterior margin : hind wing brick-red, 

 with three blackish-brown spots on anterior margin and a lengthened 

 similar spot from anal angle, the latter in some specimens joining 

 the outer anterior spot : thorax brown ; head, front of thorax, and 

 tegulse white ; two black spots on front of thorax, one on each 

 tegula, and another on the extreme base of the fore wing; abdomen 

 red, with a dorsal and lateral row of blackish spots ; antennae 

 blackish ; legs brown, femora reddish above. 



Expanse, S 1|. 2 1| inch. 



Hab. Matherau Hill, Bombay (Dr. Leith) ; Deccan (Dr. Day) ; 

 Madras (W. Elliot). In Coll. Dr. Leith, F. Moore, and W. W. 

 Saunders. 



Genus Creatonotus, Hiibn. 



Creatonotus rtjbricosta. 



Male and female creamy white : fore wing with the costal border 

 above and below red, with or without two black dots ascending 

 obliquely upwards from near the base ; a single dot at the lower end 

 of discoidal cell, and a short thin black longitudinal line below the 

 apex : abdomen red above, yellowish beneath, with a dorsal and 

 lateral row of black spots : shaft of antennae reddish, pectinations 

 of male blackish ; legs white, femora red above. 



Expanse, <5 l-fe, 2 I5 inch. 



Hab. Manpuri, North-west India (0. Home) ; Bombay. In 

 Coll. W. W. Saunders and F. Moore. 



Genus Spilosoma, Steph. 



Spilosoma dentilinea. 



Male whitish testaceous : hind wing suffused with reddish testa- 

 ceous exteriorly : fore wing with two median transverse interrupted 

 series of black dots, those on the hind margin being the largest ; 

 a zigzag black submarginal line from below the apex to near 

 posterior angle ; a black dot at base of wing and one also at upper 

 end of cell : hind wing with an ill-defined zigzag blackish line 

 below the apex, and a small rounded black discal spot. Underside : 

 base of fore wing suffused with crimson ; markings as above, but 



