MILTOCHRISTA. 485 



1032. Miltochrista delineata. 



Hi/poprepla delineata, Wlk. ii. 487 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30S. 

 Hi/pocrita rhodlna, Heri-.-Scliiiif. Aussereur. Sohmett. t'. -loS (18 w); Kirbv, 



Cat. Het. p. 308. 

 Ammathofgurafus, Wlk. iii. 759 (1855). 

 Aiiiiuatko fuscesceiis, Butl. Trans. Eat. Hoc. 1877, p. 3i3; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 308. ' 

 Ci/me chinensis, Feld. Wien. Eat. Moii. vi. p. 3G (1S62) ; Kii-bv, C it. Het. 

 ■p. 308. 



Orange-red ; extremities of femora, tibife, and tarsi witli black 

 bands. Fore wing with the costa black ; some black points at base ; 

 a slight black streak below base of median nerviire ; the antemedial 

 fuscous line angled in cell and submedian fold, and sometimes con- 

 joined at those points to the medial line, which is slightlj' incurved : 

 a discoidal point ; the postmedial line arising from the same point 

 as the medial line, bent outwards and angled on veins 7 and 4, 

 then oblique, a series of streaks on the veins be3'ond it, forked ou 

 veins 7, 8, and longer on veins and 4 ; cilia black. Hind wing with 

 slight fuscous streaks on the veins towards apex, and the cilia black. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the streaks beyond the postmedial line 

 run together into a patch. 



Ab. '2. fascesctins. Fore wing with the area before the antemedial 

 line suffused with fuscous and beyond the medial line except a patch 

 at end of cell and termen. 



Hab. China, Shanghai (Phrtune, WaR-er), 4 d, 5 $, type fasces- 

 cens and type Jlr/urat us, Hongkong (Bowriiu/), 1 c? , Ichang (Hobson)^ 

 1 d , 1 5 ; ■? Borneo. Exp. 34-40 millim. Type f chine asis in 

 Coll. Ilothschild. 



1033. Miltochrista mesortha. (Plate XXXII. fig. 31.) 

 Miltochrista mesortha, Hinpsii. J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xi. p. 440 (1897). 



Scarlet, mid and hind tibiae with black patches ; abdomen greyish 

 towards base. Fore wing with the costa black ; a subbasal black 

 point and a streak below the cell to the antemedial line, which is 

 angled outwards in cell and submedian fold ; a slightly curved 

 medial line ; patches of yellow in, beyond, and below end of cell, 

 leaving the veins red ; a curved black postmedial line, oblique 

 below vein 4, with streaks on the veins beyond it, forked on veins 

 7, 8, and reaching termen on veins 6 and 4 ; termen and cilia black. 

 Hind wing paler crimson, yellowish towards costa : traces of medial 

 and diffused postmedial lines prominent on underside and not 

 reaching inner margin ; cilia black from apex to vein 2. 



Hub. Assam, Khasis, 1 d , 1 $ type. Ex^y., S 2U, $ 30 millim. 



1034. Miltochrista delicia. 



Barsine delicia, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 477, pi- 19. f. 12 ; Hiiipsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 119. 



S . Head and thorax yellow ; palpi, blackish towards tips ; tegnla) 

 and patagia edged with crimson ; legs crimson ; vertex of head, 

 patagia, meso- and metathorax, fore tibiie and tarsi with fuscous 



