MILTOCHRISTA. ^57 



yellowish, with black markings, but some species are black, 

 while others are suffused, spotted, or striped with red ; and a 

 few exotic species with green or blue. The larv^ are generally 

 brightly coloured, with hairy warts. 



Although this Family has numerous representatives m all 

 parts of the world, it attains its maximum of development, 

 both in the variety, and in the size of the species, m the East 

 Indies, and especially in India itself. 



GENUS MILTOCHRISTA. 



Miltochrista, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. i66 (1822?); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 553 (1854). 

 Calligenia, Duponchel, Cat. Lepid. Eur. p. 59 (1844). 



The European species of this genus, which is the repre- 

 sentative of a very large Indian group, differs from others 

 of the Family by the arched costa and rounded fore-wmgs 

 (ihe costa in most genera of Lithosiidce being nearly straight), 

 its red colouring, and the zig-zag transverse Imes on the 

 fore-wings. The latter are nearly as broad as the hmd- 

 wings which is also unusual in European Lithosiidcz. It 

 flies at dusk in the neighbourhood of woods, and is not un- 

 common. 



The larva feeds on lichens. 



THE ROSY FOOTMAN. MILTOCHRISTA MTNIATA. 



Geometra miniata, Forster, Nov. Spec. Ins. p. 75 (i 77 0- 

 Bombyx rosea, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 5^7, "O- 1^9 (i775); 



Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 386, Taf. 77. H^- ^-3 (1786). 

 Nodua ruhicunda, Denis & Schiffermuller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien, p. 68, no. 10 (1776). 

 Bombyx rubicunda, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i, ii. fig. 1 1 1 (1804 . 

 lithosia rosea, Ochsenheimer, Schmett Eur. ui. p. 14S (1810). 



