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1235. A. lactinea, Cram. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, 1,800 feet. I reared a female from an egg laid 

 by a torn female found at 1,000 feet at Fagoo. I subsequently took four 

 more specimens at Punkabaree in June, July, August and September. 

 As the larva I bred differs somewhat from the description in the Moths 

 of India, I give its different stages below. 



Larva. — 1st stage orange, studded with reddish hairs, except the 4th 

 and 11th somites which are black. In the last two moults the form 

 changes completely. In the penultimate stage the 3 anterior somites and 

 the 3 posterior ones are black, studded with black hairs, the remainder 

 being dark-brown with reddish hairs ; there is also a dorsal line of pale 

 yellowish spots. The last stage differs in the whole of the somites, being 

 velvety-black, with the first 8 somites clothed in rather short golden hair 

 mingled with longer black ones, some on the first 3 somites being very 

 long. The 3 last somites are clothed in long black hairs, with no reddish 

 or golden ones ; the only markings are the yellowish spiracles. Head 

 dark-brown, prolegs pinkish-brown, undersurface black. 



Food plant, Urena lobata, Linn. 



The first abdominal segment in the perfect insect from this locality is 

 white, with a central patch of pink. Punjab specimens are usually without 

 the pink patch. 



Genus Creatonotus, Hiibn. 

 1231. C. gangis, Linn. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, up to 1,800 feet, I took a female at light in 

 March in the Buxar Dooars and another in June at Punkabaree, These 

 are the only specimens I have seen. It is an insect of the plains rather 

 than the hills. 



1242. C. transiens, Wlk. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, up to 5,C00 feet. A very common insect. The 

 hindwing of the male is generally fuscous, being darker than the forewing 

 and without the submarginal row of spots ; that of the female being paler 

 than the forewing, often nearly white and with the submarginal spots 

 present. 



Genus Estigmene, Hiibn. 

 1215. E. imhuta, Wlk. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, 5,000 feet up. I have only taken two males in 

 August and one female in June. It seems to be rather scarce. (I took 

 2 males at Darjeeling in June, but it seems a rare species. — H. J. E.) 



