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to median nervure, and sending a spur inwards along costa ; a 

 rather diamond-shaped patch above end of cell extending to angle 

 of discocellulars ; an oblique diffused line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin before middle ; a triangular patch on costa before 

 apex ; a diffused postmedial line from discal fold slightly curved to 

 vein 3, then expanding into a triangular patch ; a diffused sub- 

 terminal line from costa to vein 3, expanding into a spot on vein 5. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, with brown discoidal spot ; the inner 

 area tinged with pink. Underside of fore wing with the basal half 

 tinged with pink. 



Hah. W. Africa, Mongo-ma-lobah, type t d* in Coll. Druce. 

 Exp. 42 millira. 



Sect. III. Antennce of male ciliated. 



A. Abdomen crimson above. 



a. Fore wing with wedge-shaped black fascia beyond the 



cell gangis. 



h. Fore wing without fascia beyond the cell. 



a^. Thorax with black stripes leueanioides. 



h^. Thorax without black stripes pu7ictivitta. 



B. Abdomen orange above transiens. 



1848. Creatonotus gangis. 



PhalcBna gangis, Linn. Amoen. Acad. vi. p. 410 (1764) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. 



p. 910. 

 Noctua interrupta, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 840 (1767) ; Sulz. Gesch. Ins. 



pi. 22. f. 3 ; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 185, E ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. 



p. 73, pi. 108. fF. 5, 5a ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 26 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 241. 

 Bomhyx francisca, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 131 (1787). 

 Creatonotm continuatus, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 344 (1877) • id Lep 



Ceylon, ii. p. 73, pi. 108. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 242. 



(S . Head and thorax pinkish grey ; palpi and frons black ; a 

 broad black dorsal stripe on tegulse and thorax ; pectus and legs 

 black, the femora orange above; abdomen crimson above, with dorsal 

 and lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface black. Pore 

 wing pinkish grey ; black points at each angle of cell ; a fascia 

 narrow at base, broad at extremity below the cell from near base 

 to middle of vein 3, and a wedeje-shaped patch from lower angle of 

 cell to vein 6 near termen. Hind wing whitish to fuscous brown 

 darker at termen ; a dark subterminal spot above vein 5. 



Ab. 1. (S continuatus. Fore wing with additional black streaks in 

 cell, below medial part of costa, beyond upper angle of cell, between 

 veins 5, 4, and above vein 1 beyond middle ; hind wing sometimes 

 with spots at angles of cell and four subterminal spots. 



Ab. 2. c? similar to female. — Karachi. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing pale brownish ochreous ; femora 

 and ventral surface of abdomen brown, the latter with sublateral 

 and ventral blacn spots. Hind wing ochreous white, usually with 

 three subterminal black spots. 



