. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. CREATONOTUS. HYPHANTRIA. 335 Ampkhm vacillans, Wlk. iii. 685 (1855); Butl. 111. Hct. B. M. iii. p. 5, pi. 42. f. 4; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 243. Aloa isahcllina, Wlk. iii. 705 (1855). Head and thorax white, very slightly tinged with brown ; 3rd joint of palpi, sides of frons, and antenna) 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 s
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. CREATONOTUS. HYPHANTRIA. 335 Ampkhm vacillans, Wlk. iii. 685 (1855); Butl. 111. Hct. B. M. iii. p. 5, pi. 42. f. 4; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 243. Aloa isahcllina, Wlk. iii. 705 (1855). Head and thorax white, very slightly tinged with brown ; 3rd joint of palpi, sides of frons, and antenna) 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 interspaces tinged with brown except the costal area ; black points in and beyond upper and lower angles of cell; short subterminal. Fig. 150.—Creatonotus transiens, (^. \. (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. Fore wing uniform brown except the costal area ; hind wing brown with the cilia white. Hah. China, Ichang (Pratt), 1 ^ , Hongkong (J. J. Walker), 1 ^ , 1 2 type vacillans; Fokmosa (Hohson), 2 $ ; Himalayas, Sultanpur (G. Young)^ 2 c?, 1 5 , Kumaon ; Sikhim, 1 (5,1 $ ; Assam, Sylhet, 1 cJ, 3 $, type and type isabellina ; Nilgieis {Hampson), 3 c?, 1 2 ; Buema, Moulmein {Clerk), 1 $ ; Boeneo, Sandakan {Pryer), 1 S, Sarawak {Wallace), 4 c?, 1 $ ; Java {Horsfield), 2 (S ,1 2 '•> Celebes (Wallace), 1 $ ; Psilippines, 1 S, 1 2 . Exp., d 50, $ 60 millim. Larva. Moore, Lep. E. 1. 0. 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, Galing (? Cissus). Genus HYPHANTRIA. Type. Hyphantria, Harr. Ins. Mass. p, 255 (1841) cu7iea. Alexicles, Grote, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. viii. p. 46 (1883) aspersa. Proboscis absent; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond
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