74 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



broad black streak along thorax and sbort dorsal bands. Body ochreous-red above, 

 brownish-black beneath. Legs brownish-black ; fore and middle femora above 

 ochreous. Underside of wings as above. 

 Expanse If inch. 



CREATONOTTIS EMITTENS (Plate 108, Fig. 3, 3a, ^ q). 



Creatonotus emittens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 638 (1855); Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 

 E. I. C. ii. p. 363. 



Forewing pale pinkish-ochreous, with a slight crimson tinge along the costal 

 border ; a brown longitudinal streak below the cell, divided by the first and second 

 median veins, and followed by a more slender streak above the upper median vein : 

 hindwing ochreous- white, with a brown discal dot. Thorax ochreous; abdomen 

 above crimson, beneath ochreous-white, with black dorsal and lateral spots; fore 

 and middle femora crimson above ; tarsi brownish ; antennae black, base of shaft 

 white. 



Expanse, c? If , 2 If inch. 



Genus ALOA. 



Aloa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 699 (1855). 



Forewing long, narrow, apex pointed; cell long, extending to two-thirds the 

 length ; first subcostal emitted at one-sixth before end of the cell, second quadrifid, 

 the third thrown off at one -fifth from below base of the second, and fifth at one-half 

 from the third ; discocellular deeply concave, bent close to subcostal, radial from the 

 angle ; two upper medians from angles at end of the cell, second from close to the 

 end, first or lower at one-third before the end ; submedian recurved downward from 

 the base: hindwing short, triangular; cell extending two-thirds the wing; costal 

 vein joined to subcostal to nearly half length of the cell ; two subcostal branches 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular concave ; three upper median branches from 

 angles at end of the cell, first or lower at nearly one-half before end of the cell ; 

 submedian and internal vein neai-ly straight. Body stout, abdomen extending 

 beyond hindwing ; head small ; palpi porrect, extending beyond the head, pilose 

 beneath, third joint conical, squamous ; antennse short, thick, coarsely biserrated in 

 male ; legs thickish, squamous. 



Type, A. Lactinea. 



ALOA SANGTJINOLENTA (Plate 108, Fig. 6, 6a, ^J ? ). 

 Bomhyx sanguinolenta, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 473 (1793); Donovan, Ins. of India, pi. 53, ?. 

 Wings pure white. Male : forewing with a crimson costal band extending to 

 the apex ; a small black spot at upper end of the cell, a dot at base of the two upper 



