ALPHAA.—SPILARCTIA. a1 
ALPHEA, Walk. 
Alphea fulvohirta. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 8.) 
Alphea fulvohirta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 684. no. 1 (1855). 
Primaries dark brown, with paler veins, crossed by six series of unequal white spots, the 
last series being marginal, a spot beyond the cell between the third and fourth series; all the 
series, excepting the marginal one, more or less angulated: secondaries snow-white, with an 
abbreviated fascia or elongated spot from the costa to the middle of the cell, a lunate spot at 
the end of the cell, two spots above the latter, and four widely separated submarginal spots, 
all dark brown: thorax black; head above white; collar edged with yellow and spotted with 
black; tegule white, with a longitudinal central black stripe; abdomen ochreous. Wings 
below as above; pectus blackish, spotted with whitish and yellow; venter cream-coloured, 
spotted with black. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 
Darjiling. 
SPILARCTIA, Buti. 
Spilarctia abdominalis. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 9.) 
Spilosoma abdominalis, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. ii. p. 3856. n. 857 (1858-59). 
?. Primaries pale buff, with a black spot at basal fourth of costa, a curved black streak 
just before the middle of the inner margin, and a black dot, almost uniting with its commence- 
ment, above the submedian vein: secondaries white, tinted with buff, semitransparent; a 
black spot at the end of the cell: thorax pale buff; antenne and palpi black ; abdomen above 
scarlet, with dorsal and lateral series of black dots; anus white. Primaries below tinted with 
red, the costal black spot obsolete: secondaries as above: body below cream-coloured ; ante- 
rior coxe and femora above red; knees and tibie of all the legs above more or less black ; 
venter with a lateral series of black dots. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 
North India (Buckley). 
Spilarctia lacteata. (Plate LXXXYV. fig. 10.) 
Primaries above creamy buff; a dot near the base below the median vein, an irregularly 
interrupted, slightly sinuous, oblique series of dots and dashes from apex to submedian vein, 
where it almost meets a curved streak on the inner margin, and four or five discal dots parallel 
to the outer margin black: secondaries white, semitransparent; a double dot at the end of 
the cell, an indistinct dot below the first median branch, a spot on the radial interspace, and 
an oblique series of three near the anal angle black: thorax creamy buff; the palpi, antenne, 
and a dorsal longitudinal line behind the collar black ; abdomen cream-coloured at base, 
otherwise scarlet, with white borders, dorsal and lateral series of black dots. Under surface 
