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ALPHJEA, Walk. 



Alphaea fulvohirta. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 8.) 

 Alphaea 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 j tegulae 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. 



DarjiHng. 



SPILARCTIA, Butl. 



Spilarctia abdominalis. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 9.) 



Spilosoma abdominalis, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. ii. p. 356. 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; antennas 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 coxae and femora above red ; knees and tibiae 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 LXXXV. 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, antennae, 

 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 



