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AECTIAD^. 



to vein 3, then oblique and with two points beyond it towards apex, 

 a short streak above vein 5 and point below it and points on each 

 side of vein 2. Hind wing with discoidal ^ot, and sometimes 

 subterminal spots above vein 5 and below 2. 



One specimen has veins 4, 5 of both wings stalked. 

 Ilab. Aden (Yerbury, Nurse), 5 (S , 2 2 t type. Exjo., S 34, 

 2 44 millim. 



1846. Creatonotus marginalis. (Plate XLYI. fiig. 10.) 



Aloa marginalis, Wlk. iii. 701 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 238. 

 S'pilosoma ramivitta, Wlk. Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 336 (1869) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 910. 



(S . Yellowish white ; palpi and antennae black, the basal joint 

 of latter, neck, fringe of tegulae, fore coxae and femora above orange; 

 tegulae, shoulders, and patagia with black spots, legs banded with 

 black; abdomen orange above, white below, dorsal, lateral, and 

 sublateral series of small black spots. Pore wing with broad 

 dark brown fascia in and below cell from near base to the sub- 

 terminal band, connected with costa by three bands on basal area, 

 one at end of cell forking towards the fascia and one towards apex, 

 and with inner margin by four bands before the subterminal band, 

 the first or first two not reaching inner margin ; the subterminal 

 band enclosing some white spots between veins 2 and 5, attenuate 

 below vein 2, and connected with termen by six streaks on the 

 veins. Hind wing with dark brown discoidal iunule and three 

 subterminal spots. 



2 . Fore wing with the brown fascia broader. 



ifab. SiEREA Leone, 1 $ type ; Nigeria, Onitsha ; Congo, 1 c? 

 type ramivitta. Exp., 6 44, § 50 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna of male serrate and fasciculate. 



*1847. Creatonotus vittata. 



Spilarctia vittata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 211 (1898). 



Fig. 149. — Creatonotus vittata, ^. \. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous ; palpi black, 

 crimson at base ; sides of frons black ; legs crimson ; abdomen 

 dorsally tinged with crimson towards extremity. Fore wing 

 ochreous white ; a brown patch on costa before middle extending 



