CREATONOTUS. HYPHANTRIA. 335 



Ampkhm vacillans, Wlk. iii. 685 (1855) ; Butl. 111. Hct. B. M. iii. p. 5, 



pi. 42. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 243. 

 Aloa isahcllina, Wlk. iii. 705 (1855). 



Head and thorax white, very slightly tinged with brown ; 3rd 

 joint of palpi, sides of frons, and antenna) black ; legs streaked with 

 black, the femora orange above ; abdomen orange above, the 

 extremity of anal tuft and ventral surface white ; dorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of small black spots. Fore wing white, the 

 interspaces tinged with brown except the costal area ; black points 

 in and beyond upper and lower angles of cell ; short subterminal 



Fig. 150. — Creatonotus transiens, (^ . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



striae sometimes present above veins 5 and 1. Hind wing white ; 

 sometimes with subterminal points above veins 5 and 1. 



Ab. 1. vacillans. Fore wing uniform brown except the costal 

 area ; hind wing brown with the cilia white. 



Hah. China, Ichang (Pratt), 1 ^ , Hongkong (J. J. Walker), 1 ^ , 

 1 2 type vacillans ; Fokmosa (Hohson), 2 $ ; N.W. Himalayas, 

 Sultanpur (G. Young) ^ 2 c?, 1 5 , Kumaon ; Sikhim, 1 (5,1 $ ; 

 Assam, Sylhet, 1 cJ , 3 $ , type and type isabellina ; Nilgieis 

 {Hampson), 3 c? , 1 2 ; Buema, Moulmein {Clerk), 1 $ ; Boeneo, 

 Sandakan {Pryer), 1 S, Sarawak {Wallace), 4 c? , 1 $ ; Java 

 {Horsfield), 2 (S ,1 2 '•> Celebes ( Wallace), 1 $ ; Psilippines, 1 S , 

 1 2 . Exp., d 50, $ 60 millim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. E. 1. 0. p. 290, pi. 13. f. 5. 



Black blotched with red-brown, and with tufts of red-brown hair, 

 the lateral tufts arising from rufous tubercles ; a broad dorsal 

 white stripe ; head black marked with white. Food-plant, Galing 

 (? Cissus). 



Genus HYPHANTRIA. 



Type. 



Hyphantria, Harr. Ins. Mass. p, 255 (1841) cu7iea. 



Alexicles, Grote, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. viii. p. 46 (1883) aspersa. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons and clothed 

 with long hair ; head and thorax clothed with long rough hair ; antennge of 

 male with the branches moderate ; fore tibise with curved claw on inner side 

 and short claw on outer ; hind tibiae with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from or from above angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



