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LEUCANIID^. 
LEUCANIID^. 
ALETIA, Hubn. 
Aletia exanthemata. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 6.) 
Aletia exanthemata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 410, 
Nearest to A. vitellina of Europe ; a little deeper in colouring : the secondaries more 
sufifused with brown ; the two lines limiting the central belt closer together and much less 
angular ; an additional oblique line beyond the central belt, its uj^per extremity uniting with 
the submarginal line on the last subcostal branch ; the submarginal line more distinctly 
undulated ; all the lines dotted with black upon the veins ; a marginal series of black dots : 
collar of the male traversed by a blackish line. Exjjanse of wings, S 35 millim., $ 40 millim. 
Dharmsala ; at sugar, July and August. 
Aletia rudis. (Plate CXXVI. figs. 7, 8.) 
Aletia rudis, 2Ioore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 411. 
Closely allied to A. lithargyria of Europe ; both sexes coloured like the female of that 
species, but without a trace of the dark transverse lines indicating the limits of the central 
belt of the primaries, but with a series of small black lunules across the disc ; the whole 
surface of these wings being, moreover, more or less distinctly transversely striated with 
ochreous ; secondaries greyer. Expanse of wings, c? 37 millim., 2 41 millim. 
Dharmsala ; at sugar. *• 
Aletia fraterna. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 9.) 
Aletia fraterna, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. lfS8, p. 410. 
Near to A. lithargyria ; rather larger and more pink in colouring; the primaries without 
the ordinary lines or black dots, but striated as in the preceding species ; the veins and costal 
margin white. Expanse of wings 48 millim. 
Dharmsala ; at sugar. 
It is possible that A. fraterna (the unique specimen of which was associated by Mr. 
Hocking with A. albicosta of the same author) may turn out to be nothing more than a well- 
marked variety of A. albicosta : it differs, nevertheless, in the absence of the orange markings 
and black dots on the primaries, and in its generally more rosy coloration, in which 
characters it more nearly approaches A. rudis. 
