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antennae black ; back of head, stripes on shoulders, fore coxae and 

 femora above yellow ; patagia with black points, legs striped with black, 

 the tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen orange-yellow, the ventral 

 surface white, a dorsal series of short black bands, and lateral and 

 sublateral series of black spots. Eore wing pale brown ; the costa 

 yellow ; a subcostal fascia, the veins, a stripe in and beyond end of 

 cell, and another in medial part of subraedian fold white ; two 

 discoidal black points ; traces of a curved antemedial line ; a more 

 distinct postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved to below origin of vein 2. Hind wing pure white, with 

 black discoidal lunule and four subterminal spots sometimes more 

 or less conjoined. 



Hah. Ganjam; Madras, 1 d ; Coimbatore {^YalJlouse)^ 1 S 

 type. Ea-p. 44 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, groundnuts. 



Genus CREATONOTUS. 



Type. 



Creatonotos, Hiibn. Verz. p. 169 (1827) gangis. 



Ampkissa, Wlk. iii. 684 (1855) transiens. 



Fhissama, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 362 ( 1859) transiens. 



Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frons ; head and 

 thorax smoothly scaled ; hind tibias with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing 

 with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from just above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male bipectinate. 



A. Abdomen crimson above arabica. 



B. Abdomen orange above marginalis. 



1845. Creatonotus arabica. 



Spilosoma arabicum, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 258, pi. x. f. 25. 



Fig. 148. — Creatonotus arabica, (^ . \. 



Brownish grey ; palpi black above, tinged with crimson below ; 

 antennae black, the basal joint crimson ; neck crimson ; patagia 

 with black spots ; legs banded with black ; fore coxae and femora 

 above tinged with crimson ; abdomen crimson above, with dorsal, 

 lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing sometimes 

 with black costal fascia ; some black points at base ; an antemedial 

 series of four spots from costa to below cell and two nearer the 

 base on each side of vein 1 ; a discoidal spot and three points at 

 lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of spots curved from costa 



