ARCTIID^. 73 



pale crimson-red, with a blackish-brown costal band and submarginal spots. Thorax 

 brown ; sides of thorax and head above pinkish-white, tegul^ with a brown spot ; 

 palpi, and legs, brown, femora red streaked ; abdomen crimson, with dorsal and 

 lateral black spots. 

 Expanse If inch. 



Intermediate between B,. lativitta and B. biguttata. 



Genus CREATONOTUS. 

 Creatonotus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 169 (1818-25); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. 

 p. 637 (1855). 



Wings shorter than in Aloa : forewing more regularly fusiform in shape ; 

 venation similar. Palpi smaller, shorter, apical joint very short and pilose; antennae 

 finely biserrated in male ; legs shorter, less regularly squamose. 



CREATONOTUS INTERRUPTUS (Plate 108, Fig. 5, 5a, S ?)• 



PhalcBna-Bombyx interrupta, LiniiEeus, Syst. Nat. i. ii. p. 840 (1767); Sulzer, Ins. pi. 22, fig. 3; 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 136, pi. 185, fig. E. 

 Creatonotus interrupta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 170; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. iii. 



p. 638; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. L C. ii. p. 362, pi. 17, f. 1, la. 

 Bombyx Franctsca, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 131; Ent Syst. iii. 1, p. 480. 



Male : forewing pinkish-ochreous, with an interrupted black streak extending 

 from base below the cell to near the apex ; two black dots at end of the cell and 

 one at the posterior angle : hindwing fuliginous-brown, darkest externally, and 

 sometimes with three indistinct darker marginal spots. Female : forewing paler 

 ochreous ; the black band distinct : hindwing whitish-ochreous ; marginal spots less 

 defined. Thorax ochreous, with a black longitudinal band ; abdomen above more 

 or less dark crimson, with short black dorsal and lateral spots ; front of head, 

 abdomen, and legs beneath greyish-black ; femora above ochreous ; antenna black. 



Expanse, c? 1|-, ? If inch. 



" Colombo and Newera Eliya. Plains and up to 6000 feet ; in gardens. Common. 

 Comes into the house at night, attracted by the light." [Hutchison.) 



CREATONOTUS CONTINXTATUS (Plate 108, Fig. 4). 



Creatonotus continuatus, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 344. 



Male and female. Upperside : forewing ochreous, with an unbroken black 

 streak extending from base below the cell to near the apex, a black streak within the 

 cell and between all the upper veins, a shorter streak also from posterior angle : 

 hindwing in male fuliginous, with darker maculated border, in female pale ochreous, 

 with suffused blackish discal streaks, a cell spot, and darker black marginal spots ; a 



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