510 NOCTCID.E. 



before it ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, with some silvery 

 blue before it on costal balf and on inner half defined by white 

 on inner side, angled outwards in submedian fold and inwards on 

 vein 1 : reniform an obscure silvery blue lunule, tbe veins from cell to 

 postmedial line streaked with silvery blue: postmedial line double, 

 black filled in with silvery blue from costa to vein 2, then defined 

 by white on outer side, bent outwards below eosta, tlien dentate, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by a silvery 

 blue bar from costa and patches at discal and submedian folds with 

 diffused black patches before it below costa and at middle, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia black-brown with some silvery 

 blue scales at base and tips. Hind wing white, tinged with fuscous 

 especially on inner area; a terminal series of black striae : cilia 

 whitish tinged with fuscous at tips ; the underside ochreous white 

 irrorated with fuscous, a small dark discoidal spot and indistinct 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Sikhim Tibet, Yatung (Hobson), 2 d, 4 § type. Exp. 

 24 30 millim. 



5766. Lithacodia varicolora. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 5.) 

 Maliattka varicolora, Huipsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 377 (1902). 



Head and thorax grey slightly tinged with ochreous and mixed 

 with fuscous ; palpi blackish ; fore tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen ochreous white mixed with fuscous. Pore 

 wing whitish, the basal and inner areas suffused and irrorated with 

 purplish fuscous, the rest of medial area tinged with pink with some 

 olive-yellow scales on disk, the terminal area greenish ; subbasal 

 line represented by a black striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double filled in with whitish, oblique from costa to sub- 

 median fold where it is crossed by a slight black streak ; orbicular 

 and reniform with faint olive annuli, the former round, the latter 

 elliptical with black point in lower part; traces of an incurved line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved and filled in with white; subterminal line indistinct, 

 formed by white scales, strongly defined on inner side by 

 dark brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 angled inwards at vein 2 to near postmedial line ; the terminal 

 area with dark irroration ; a terminal series of blackish striae ; 

 cilia fuscous and white with a dark line through them and dark 

 patch at middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; a 

 fine dark terminal line ; cilia whitish with a dark line at middle ; 

 the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot, rather diffused curved minutely waved postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of slight dark lunules. 



Alt. 1. Fore wing with the medial area irrorated with fuscous 

 and not tinged with pink, the terminal area not green. 



Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie), 1 d ; Transvaal (Cholmley),2 J, 

 1 2 ; -Natal, Karkloof (Marshall), 1 $ type; Cape Coloxt, 

 Transkei {Miss F. Barrett). 2 rf, 1 ? . Etcp. 22-24 millim. 



