UBITHYS. 



449 



the area before it pale rufous except towards costa, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 



(From Moths lud. vol. ii.) 



lunules. Hind wing pure white, the costal area tinged with fuscous 

 and in female the terminal area also. 



Hah. Punjab, Allahabad; Ceylon {Templeton) , 2 c? , 1 5 » 

 Trincomalee {Yerhiiry), 1 S ; Burma, Moulmein {Cleric), 1 $ ; 

 SiNGAPOiiE {liidleij), 1 5 ; Java (Norsjield), 5 cj" , 3 § . Eu,-p. 

 32-46 millim. 



Larva. Head, first and last, somite, and legs j'ellow ; the rest 

 brown, with dorsal and subdorsal series of yellowish-white spots, 

 those on posterior edge of somites rather smaller ; somite 4 without 

 anterior spots and 5 with the dorsal spot only ; subdorsal Avhito points 

 on somites 4 to 8 ; lateral and ventral bands each on part of two 

 somites ; wart vi. on somites 4-8 on white spots. Food-plants, 

 Liliacea'. 



1792. Brithys encausta. 



Nochia encausta, Hi'ibu. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 392 (1827); Dup. 

 L6p. Fr. vi. p. 78, pi. 86. f. 3 ; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 291 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 



Head and thorax fle.sh-white ; tcgulae with black medial line ; 

 prothorax with black patch ; abdomen white, flesh-coloured below. 

 Fore wing white tinged with tlesh-colour, leaving the costal area 

 from before middle whiter; antemedial line indistinct, waved, often 

 nearl}' ob.soleti% oblique from costa to below cell ; claviform some- 

 times slightly defined by black ; orbicular lepresented by a black 

 streak, or obsolete ; reniform narrow, defined by blacli ; postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to black points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line 

 fuscous, obsolete towards costa, the area before it yellowish except 

 towards costa, angled outwards at veiu 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white ; 

 female with the costal area tinged with fuscous, a dark terminal 

 line except towards torniis; the underside sometimes with sinuous 

 postmedial line on costal half of wing. 



IJah. Italy, La Spezia ; Sicii.r, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Ionian Is. ; Greece, 1 $ . Exp. 38-44 millim. 



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