. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 332 AECTIAB^. to vein 3, then oLlicjue and with two jwints bej-ond it towards apex, a short streak above vein 5 and point below it and points on each side of vein 2. Hind wing with discoidal spot, and sometimes subterminal spots above vein 5 and below 2. One specimen has veins 4, 5 of both wings stalked. Ilab. Adex {Yerhury, Nurse), 5 d, 2 $ , type. £'.rj>., S 34, 5 44 millim. 1846. Creatonotus marginalis. (Plate XLVI. fig. 10.) Aloa marginalis, Wlk. iii. 701 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 238. Spilosoma ramivitta,W\'k. Proc. ]


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 332 AECTIAB^. to vein 3, then oLlicjue and with two jwints bej-ond it towards apex, a short streak above vein 5 and point below it and points on each side of vein 2. Hind wing with discoidal spot, and sometimes subterminal spots above vein 5 and below 2. One specimen has veins 4, 5 of both wings stalked. Ilab. Adex {Yerhury, Nurse), 5 d, 2 $ , type. £'.rj>., S 34, 5 44 millim. 1846. Creatonotus marginalis. (Plate XLVI. fig. 10.) Aloa marginalis, Wlk. iii. 701 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 238. Spilosoma ramivitta,W\'k. Proc. ]S'. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. SoG (1869); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 910, (S. Yellowish white ; palpi and antennae black, the basal joint of latter, neck, fringe of tegulee, fore coxae and femora above orange; tegulse, shoulders, and patagia with black spots, legs banded with black; abdomen orange above, white below, dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of small black spots. Fore wing with broad dark brown fascia in and below cell from near base to the sub- terminal band, connected with costa by three bands on basal area, one at end of cell forking towards the fascia and one towards apex, and with inner margin by four bands before the subterminal band, the first or first two not reaching inner margin; the subterminal band enclosing some white spots between veins 2 and 5, attenuate below vein 2, and connected with termen by six streaks on the veins. Hind wing with dark brown discoidal lunule and three subterminal spots. 5 . Fore wing with the brown fascia broader. Hab. SiEERA Leone, 1 $ type; Xigeria, Onitsha; Congo, 1 S type ramivitta. Exj)., 6 44, $ 50 miUim. Sect. II. Antennos of male serrate and fasciculate. *1847. Creatonotus vittata. Spilarctia vittata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 211 (1898).. Fig. 149.— Creatonotus vittata, (^, \. (5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous ; palpi black, crimson at base; sides of frons black; legs crimson ; abdomen dorsally tinged with cr


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