LITHACOMA. 



yellow, constricted al middle; a quadrate dark patch in cell 

 between orbicular and reniform ; postmedial line blackish with a 

 yellow band on its outer edge, benl outw: ta, then 



minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, and angled outwardi 



vein 1; a sinuous yellow subterminal band with dark suffusion 

 before it on costal half: a terminal series of small black lum. 

 cilia brown. Hind wing uniform dark brown. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 28 millim. Tiiis species is unknown to 

 me. 



5792. Lithacodia dorata. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 24.) 



Erastria dorata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 205 (19 



Head and thorax golden yellow mixed with rufous, the tegulae 

 with slight dark points ; antenna) with the shaft black with pale 

 rings ; fore legs blackish ; abdomen yellowish white irrorated with 

 brown, the crests blackish, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing golden yellow suffused and irrorated with bright rufous ; 

 subbasal line represented by a rufous strigafrom costa ; antemedial 

 line rufous defined on inner side by yellow, double at costa, 

 incurved in submedian interspace ; claviform, orbicular, and 

 reniform with yellow centres and white annuli defined by blackish, 

 the first extending to median nervure and confluent with tbo 

 orbicular which has its lower extremity produced to a point ; the 

 reniform constricted at middle and somewhat angled inwards on 

 median nervure; a waved rufous line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line blackish defined on outer sid< 

 golden yellow and below vein 4 on inner side also, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some yellow points beyond it on costa: subterminal line 

 Blight, yellow, defined on inner side by bright rufous, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a fine terminal blackish 

 line. Hind wing yellowish white slightly irrorated with brown 

 especially on the veins ; a fine terminal black line interrupted at 

 the veins; the underside yellow irrorated with brown, a blackish 

 liscoidal spot, minutely waved postmedial line excurved b 



osta, and traces of a subterminal line. 

 Hah. Ceylon, Newara Eliy a (Mackwood), 1 6, 1 2 typ®* l: 



" 26, $ 28 millim. 



5793. Lithacodia titanica, n. sp. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 25.) 



$ . Head and thorax bright purplish mixed with black, and 



B white scales; abdomen whitish mixed with i d dark 



irown. Fore wing bright pinkish mostly suffused with dirk i 

 •rown; subbasal line double, whitish, obliquely cun 



I median nervure at base ; antemedial line brown, interni] 



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