T.ITHAfOPTA . ;,7A 



nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly excurved above h 

 margin; claviform absent : orbicular hardly defined except by an 

 oblique white bar on its outer edge : reniform incompletely 

 by black, constricted at middle : some Mack Buffnsion in cell betwt en 

 the stigmata and as a short diffused streak beyond the reniform in 

 di>ral fold; an incurved blackish shade from lower angle of cell to 

 innermargin; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with 

 whitish, oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 6, incurved below 

 vein 4, and slightly excurved at vein 1, some slight whitish points 

 >nd it on costa ; faint traces of a pale minutely waved sub- 

 terminal line with minute blackish streak before it below costa ; a 

 terminal series of minute blackish lunules. Hind wing pale 

 ochreous brown; cilia whitish with a brown line near base; the 

 'underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, 

 curved minutely waved postmedial line, and terminal series of dark 

 striae. 



Hub. Japan, Nagasaki (Leech), 1 J type ; Cents. China, 

 Ning-po, 1 (5,1 § . Exp. 30 millim. 



5826. Lithacodia picta. (Plate CLXV. fig. 14.) 



Erastria picta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. it. p. 514 1 ^'JG). 



<5 . Head and thorax pale rufous with a few fuscous scales 

 cially on shoulders and patagia; palpi black at Bides, the tips 

 of 2nd and 3rd joints white; antennae and tarsi black ringed with 

 white: abdomen pale rufous irrorated with fuscous, the w 

 tipped with black. Fore wing pale yellowish rufous, the costal 

 area and vein 1 to middle, a patch on medial area below the cell, 

 the extremity of median nervure and veins 6, 4. :! to submedian 

 line with leaden grey suffusion : antemedial line blackish, slightly 

 angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique to inner margin 

 near middle ; claviform represented by a pinkish bar with a d 



rk streak beyond it ; orbicular and reniform small, ill-defined, 

 ith some pinkish on them, the former round, the latter with a 

 alight dark streak beyond it ; postmedial line blackish defined by 

 white on outer side, oblique and minutely sinuous to Vein 6, angled 

 inwards at disci fold, oblique below vein I ami slightly inourved 

 mi fold ; an oblique olive brown fascia from apex to 

 postmedial line at discal fold; a white subterminal - low 



discal told with a blackish line defined on inner side by white from 

 it to vein 2 ; cilia chequered reddish brown and white with a Blight 

 dark line near base. Hind wing ochreous yellow, the inner half 

 irrorated with brown; traces of 8 -dntious postmedial line; dark 

 marks on the extremities of veins I. :'.. 2; a tine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia with a dark line near base, the tips chequered w i. 

 brown; the underside with the basal half i: with t 



the costal and terminal areas tinged with rufous, a black discoidul 

 spot and punctiform sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. AlSsam, KMsis, 1 •' type. Exp. 26 millim. 



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