334 AKCTIABJE. 



Hah. W. China, Ichang {Pratt), 2 S ; Formosa {Hohson^ Seehohm), 

 2 S ; Nepal {Hardwicke)^ 2 c? , 1 $ ; Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 (S ; 

 EoMBAY (Sivinhoe), 1 c? ; Nilgirts {Hampson), 1 c? ; Ceylon {Temple- 

 ton, Lewis, Green, Yerhury), 6 c? , 2 $ , type continuatus ; Burma, 

 Moulmein {ClerJc), 1 $, RaDgoon {Scott), 3 c?, 2 $, Mandalay 

 {Carpenter), 1 2 ; Singapore {Ridley), 3 c? ; Java, Batavia (^ncZr^tys), 

 1 $ ; N. Australia, Adelaide R. (J. J". Walker), 1^,2$. Exp., 

 S 38, $ 40 millim. 



Xffrya. Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 362, pi. 17. ff. 1, 1 a. 



Black, sparsely clothed with long hair ; head marked with white; 

 a yellow dorsal stripe with series of orange spots on it ; prologs 

 pale. 



1849. Creatonotus leucanioides. (Plate XL VI. fig. 5.) 

 Creatonotus leucanioides, HoU. Psyche, vi. p. 397 (1893). 



(S . Head and thorax brownish white ; sides of frons and antennae 

 black ; eyes with radiating black bars ; tegulae and thorax with 

 black dorsal fascia; pectus and legs blackish; streaks below the 

 wings and upperside of femora crimson ; abdomen crimson, with 

 dorsal and lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface brown. 

 Pore wing semihyaline brownish white ; a black fascia from base 

 below the cell ; a minute black point in lower angle of cell and 

 short streak just beyond it ; a short subterminal streak above 

 vein 5. Hind wing almost hyaline white. 



Hah. Cameroons, Ogowe R., typef S in Coll. Holland. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing without the black fascia below the cell ; 

 hind wing tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Austen), 1 J . 



1850. Creatonotus punctivitta. (Plate XLVI. fig. 20). 



Spilosoma ptmctivitta, Wlk. iii. 673 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 242. 



cT . Brownish white ; palpi yellow, black at tips ; sides of frons 

 and antennse black ; pectus and legs brown, the fore coxae at sides 

 and femora above orange ; abdomen crimson above, grey at sides, 

 brown below, some yellow hair on sides at base ; dorsal and lateral 

 series of black spots, anal tuft pale at tips. Fore wing with black 

 fascia below the cell to just beyond origin of vein 2 ; points in 

 upper angle of cell and in and beyond lower angle ; a short sub- 

 terminal streak above vein 1. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, with 

 black point in upper angle of cell. 



Hah. Natal {Gueinzius), 2 S type, Durban [Innes), 1 S . Exp. 

 42 millim. 



1851. Creatonotus transiens. 



Spilosoma transiens, Wlk. iii. 675 (1855) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 29 ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 243. 



