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M. ziczac Walk. (= inscripta Bull, rivalis Leech) (11 d). Tory like Miniata rosariu, but the ground- ziezac. 

 colour of the forewing grey, outer margin and apical half of costal margin deep blood-red, hindwing 

 greyish pink instead of yellow; slightly larger than rosaria. Central, East and West China. 



M. flexuosa Leech (11 d). Larger, both wings deep rose-red, forewing almost blood-red. Basal and flexuosa. 

 marginal portions of the forewing with fine black rays. Abdomen brown. West China. 



M. inscripta Walk. (= erubescens Butl.) (lid). A small species. Forewing purple-pink, with black inscripla. 

 transverse lines, hindwing black-brown; in the $ the hindwing bears pale purple spots before the margin. 

 China: Hhanghai. 



M. bivittata Buil. (11 d). Like a small aberruns, with which many authors unite it. Forewing deep hirittuta. 

 rose-red and hindwing paler. Two transverse lines traverse the forewing and separate the basal, median 

 and marginal areas; from the outer one black rays e.xtend to the margin behind the cell. Two black dots 

 near the base, one in the cell and several before the margin. From Japan. Several times I found them 

 in cob-webs, in which they seem easily to entangle themselves. 



M. aberrans Butl. (11 d). Almost exactly like the preceding, not nuich larger, forewing mostly aherrans. 

 darker pink, and the black dots, especially those before the margin, more distinct and sharper. Amurland 

 and Japan; I found the species near Shanghai, in June. — In the form askoldensis Obtrth., from Askold, askoldensis. 

 the central one of the 3 black transverse lines is absent. 



M. miniata Forst. (= rubicunda Schiff., rosea Esp.) (11 d, e). The European „Red Arches" has miniata. 

 flesh-coloured ground-colour, rose-red margin to the forewing, and on this wing a black dentate hne beyond 

 the middle, and black, elongate spots before the margin. In the ^ the costa is curved upwards beyond 

 the apex of the cell. Throughout Europe and North Asia, from Scandinavia and Finland to the Mediter- 

 ranean, and from France to Amurland, Corea and Japan. In ab. rosaria Bxitl. (11 d), which is commoner rosaria. 

 in the east of the area of distribution than in the west, and is perhaps a distinct species, the ground- 

 colour is more yellow; and in ab. crogea Big7i. (= flava Meyer), the wings are quite pale yellow, the crogea. 

 forewing being edged with bright yellow. — Egg oval, yellow. Larva grey, with blackish head, with long 

 and dense hairs, hibernating, until June on lichens on walls and fences. Pupa black-brown, abdomen 

 with yellow incisions, in a cocoon densely intermixed with hairs. The moth appears at the end of June 

 and is not rare, but always occurs singly, in forests, at road-side ditches, etc., on UmbelHfers or Scabious. 

 It is usually resting on flowers, sucking, and is easily caught. 



M. rosacea Brem. (= undulata Leech) (lie). Similar to the preceding, smaller, ^ with the costa rosacea. 

 not bent upwards beyond the apex of the cell; the black dentate line behind the centre of the forewing is 

 moreover often absent; in its place there is sometimes a row of blackish dashes or hooks; the cellular dot 

 and the row of dots before the margin distinct. In Amurland, at the Ussuri, Suifun, on Askold, North 

 and Central China; in July. 



M. pallida Brem. (11 e). o P'^le yellow, forewing with darker margin, $ almost white. Cellular spot imllida, 

 and row of spots before the margin distinct. In Amurland, at the Suifun, near Vladivostock, in the 

 middle of July. According to Staudinger also in Corea and Japan. The similarity of the colouring 

 to that of the much larger Asura megala (11 g), also known from Eastern Asia (Pekin), is most remarkable. 



M. sanguinea Moore (11 e). Rather small. Forewing dark vermilion, with black dots before the sanguinea. 

 outer margin, hindwing on the contrary black with red spots before the outer margin. Underside purple- 

 pink, with rows of black spots before the margin of the wings. Shanghai, from the end of June, not rare 

 on the road to Sikawey, between cornfields, on Umbelhfers. — Worn specimens resemble Asura infmnata, 

 which is more rust-coloured, and of which I only know the figure. 



M. fasciata Leech (11 e). Light j^ellow, forewing with reddish inner margin and numerous black dots fasciaia. 

 and comma-streaks in the basal third. In the median area a dark cell-dot. The outer area is separated 

 from the median area by a black line which is produced outwardly in the centre into a large tooth and 

 into a smaller one under the costa. In the outer portion of both wings black vein-streaks; forewing with 

 black dots at the outer margin. From the Omei-shan in Western China. 



M. linga Moore (= tripartita Walk.) (11 e). Comparatively large, one of the largest species of the linga. 

 genus. Straw-coloured, thorax with black dots, end of abdomen orange. A few basal spots on the fore- 

 wing, two rows of dots through the centre, and one before the marginal portion black; the veins accentu- 

 ated by black streaks in the outer area. In the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Sikkim. 



M. gratiosa Deless. Extraordinarily variable in size, colouring and markings, so that it is difficult graliosa. 

 to find two specimens exactly alike. The largest specimens are by far the largest Miltochrista, and those 

 with strongest markings also the most beautiful. There are innumerable transitions between the different 

 varieties, wiiich are only sometimes geographical. True gratiosa comes from India; it is represented by the 

 large form figured lie (after Delessert). Here the forewing is deep rose-red with yellow reticulatioas, 



