. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CREATONOTUS.—nYPHANTRIA. 335 Amphifsa vaciUavs, Wlk. iii. 085 (1855); Butl. 111. Ilet. B. M. iii. p. 5, pi. 42. f. 4; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 243. Aloa isahdlina, Wlk. iii. 705 (1855). Head and thorax white, very slightly tinged with brown ; 3rd joint of palpi, sides of frons, and antennas black ; legs streaked with black, the femora orange above; abdomen orange above, the extremity of anal tuft and ventral surface white ; dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of small black spots. Fore wing white, the ii]terspaces tinged with br
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CREATONOTUS.—nYPHANTRIA. 335 Amphifsa vaciUavs, Wlk. iii. 085 (1855); Butl. 111. Ilet. B. M. iii. p. 5, pi. 42. f. 4; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 243. Aloa isahdlina, Wlk. iii. 705 (1855). Head and thorax white, very slightly tinged with brown ; 3rd joint of palpi, sides of frons, and antennas black ; legs streaked with black, the femora orange above; abdomen orange above, the extremity of anal tuft and ventral surface white ; dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of small black spots. Fore wing white, the ii]terspaces tinged with brown except the costal area ; black points in and beyond upper and lower angles of cell; short subterminul. \ Fig. 150.— Creatonotus iransicns, J. ]. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) striae sometimes present above veins 5 and 1. Hind wing white ; sometimes with subterminal points above veins 5 and 1. Ab. 1. vacillans. Tore wing uniform brown except the costal area ; hind wing brown with the cilia white. Hah. China, Ichang {Pratt), 1 S , Hongkong {J. J. Walker), 1 c? , 1 2 type vacillans; Formosa (Hobson), 2 $ ; JS'.W. Himalayas, Sultanpur (G. Young), 2 c? > 1 $ ? Kumaon; Sikhim, 1 c? , 1 $ ; Assam, Sylhet, 1 c^, 3 $, type and type isahellina ; Nilgiris (Hampson), 3 c?, 1 $ ; Burma, Moulmein (Cleric),! 2 ; BoRNEf^, Handakau (Pri/er), 1 r?, Sarawak (Wallace), 4 (^, 1 5 ; Java (fforsfield), 2^,1$; Celebes (Wallace), 1 $ ; Philippines, 1 (S, 1 2 • J^-^P; d 50, 2 60 millim. Larva. Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 290, pi. 13. f. 5. Black blotched with red-brown, and with tufts of red-brown hair, the lateral tufts arising from rufous tubercles; a broad dorsal white stripe ; head black marked with white. Food-plant, Galiiig (? Cissiis). Genus HYPHANTRIA. Typo. Hyphantria, Harr. Ins. Mass. p. 255 (1841) .. cu'nea. Alexicles, Grote, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. viii. p. 46 (1883) I'roboscis absent; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons and clotlied with long hair; head and thorax c
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