704 catalogue of 



6. Aloa marginata. 



Mas et fuem. Alba, nitens ; caput rufo fasciatum ; palpi supra 

 rufiy apice nigri ; abdomen rufum, e maculis nigris trivittatum, 

 basi apiceque album; alee anticce nigro bivittatm, costa rufa; 

 posticcB maculis marginalibus unaque discali nigris. 



Phalaena marginata, Donov. JSpit. Ins. New Holl. pi. 



Chelonia marginata, Boisd. Voy. de V Astrolabe, Pt. 1. Lep. 215, 4. 



East Indies ? 



Male and female. White, shining. Head with a red hind 

 band. Palpi red, black towards the tips, whitish beneath. An- 

 tenna? black. Abdomen bright red, white at the base and at the 

 tip, with a dorsal row of short black bands and with two lateral 

 rows of black dots. Fore wings bright red along the costa, with two 

 black stripes, the fore one forked in front ; a few black streaks be- 

 yond these stripes. Hind wings with one black discal spot and 

 four black marginal spots. Length of the body 6J — 7 lines ; of 

 the wings 19 — 21 lines. 



a. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b. ? Presented by Major.-Gen. Hardwicke. 



7. Aloa candidula. 



Candida aut testacea ; abdomen guttis nigris vittatum ; alee antica 

 nonnunquam guttis paucis nigris. 



Var. a. Pure white. Palpi partly red above, with a black 

 mark towards the tips. Antennae black, with white tomentum, red 

 at the base. Abdomen with two lateral stripes of black dots. 

 Femora red above, with a blackish dot on each tip ; fore coxae red 

 above. Fore wings with a black dot at the tip of the discal areolet 

 between the second and third inferior veins ; costa red beneath. 



a. Nepaul. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



Var. /3. Head, thorax and fore wings with a very slight testa- 

 ceous tinge. Fore wings tawny along the costa, with a brown 

 streak behind the discal areolet, and with three blackish dots, one in 

 the disk at one-fourth of the length, the other two near the interior 

 border. Abdomen above with three rows of black dots. 



b. Nepaul. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



Var. y like var. (3. Fore wings pale reddish testaceous, bright 

 red along the costa, without blackish dots. Hind wings with a 

 brown dot at the tip of the discal areolet. Length of the body 4 

 lines; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From the Eev. J. Wenham's collection. 



