AREAS. 25 



Range. Himalayas ; Assam Hills ; Borneo ; Java. 

 Palpi porrect and long, the third joint naked. Hind tibiae with 

 two pairs of spurs. Venation as in Spilosoma. 



Sect. I. Antennae bipectinated in male, the branches short, 

 serrated in female. 



1228. Areas galactina, Van der Hoev. Tijdsch. Nat. Gesch. 1840, 



p. 280. 

 Areas orientalis, Wlk. Cat. iii, p. 658 ; C. fy 8. no. 812. 

 Neumenes trigonalis, Voll. Tijd. v. Ent. 1863, p. 140, pi. x. fig. 1. 



Head orange ; frons and third joint of palpi black ; antennae 

 black tipped with white ; thorax white above, crimson below, with 

 paired black spots on collar and two pairs on tegulae ; a broad 



Fig. 8. — Areas galactina, <3\ \. 



brown band on vertex ; thorax crimson above, yellow below, with 

 dorsal and lateral series of black spots ; femora orange. Fore 

 wing white, the veins brown ; an outwardly oblique brown band 

 met on vein 2 by an inwardly oblique band which forks towards 

 the costa ; inner area brown, sending divergent spurs upwards near 

 the base. Hind wing yellow ; a brown spot on costa, one at end 

 of cell ; two to four small submarginal spots, the two towards apex 

 often absent. 



Hob. Himalayas ; Khasis ; JNagas ; Borneo ; Java. Exp., $ 66, 

 $ 90 millim. 



1229. Areas imperialis, Kail. HilgeVs Kaschmir, iv, p. 466, pi. 21 

 tig. 1 ; C.$S. no. 810. 



Antennae black, white at tips ; head black, the vertex white. 

 Thorax black ; collar with white and crimson lateral stripes : 

 tegulae white, with a black spot ; abdomen crimson, with black 

 bands. Fore w T ing black ; a white fascia above median nervure 

 and vein 5 ; a streak from beyond upper angle of cell to costa 

 before apex and from lower angle to outer margin above vein 2 ; 

 a broad fascia from the base along vein 1 ; a series of marginal 



