30 AECTIID^E. 



ALOA, Walk. 



Aloa diminuta. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 5.) 



<3 . Aloa diminuta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 705. n. 8 (1855). 

 5 . Creatonotos emittens $ , Walker, I. c. p. 639. n. 2 (1855). 

 Spilosoma strigata, Walker, Gharact. Lep. Het. p. 10. n. 15 (1869). 



Primaries above creamy white, fringe dotted with black externally between the veins ; a 

 black longitudinal streak just below the median vein, and interrupted by the median branches, 

 and a black dot on the radial interspace : secondaries paler : thorax creamy white, face yel- 

 lowish, antennae with grey pectinations. Wings below snow-white : primaries with scarlet 

 costal border ; external border slightly sordid ; submedian streak indistinct : body sordid 

 white ; anterior coxae and femora scarlet in front. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 



North India (Hamilton) . 



Aloa punctistriga. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 6.) 



2 . Spilosoma punctistriga, Walker, Oat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 676. n. 28 (1855). 



Allied to the preceding species, but the primaries with no submedian black streak, the 

 black dot on the radial interspace replaced by a short black dash. All the wings below with 

 a black spot at the end of the cell ; all the legs with the femora and the anterior pair with 

 the coxae red in front ; knees black ; tarsi crossed by one or two blackish bars. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch. 



North India. 



ALPENUS, Walk. 



Alpenus spilosomoides. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 7.) 



Deiopeia spilosomoides, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 263 (1864). 

 Alpenus spilosomoides, Butler, Cist. Eat. ii. p. 34 (1875). 



Primaries above chalky white, with six oblique series of unequal and somewhat confused 

 black spots, costa spotted with black at the base ; a marginal series of black spots : secondaries 

 straw -yellow, with a submarginal series of blackish spots ; three or four subapical marginal 

 spots ; a greyish dot at the end of the cell : thorax creamy white, collar and tegulae spotted 

 with black ; abdomen bright ochreous, with dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Primaries 

 below clouded with grey ; a number of spots arranged as above, but dark grey instead of 

 black : secondaries with submarginal and marginal spots rather larger than above, a spot 

 interrupted by the subcostal vein, two placed obliquely above the end of the cell and one on 

 the upper discocellular : body below yellow, legs blackish, sides o£ venter black-spotted. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



North India (Strachey) . 



