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postmcdial line strongly excurvcd from below costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved, a forked streak from it on veins 7, 8, a streak on vein G 

 nearly reaching termen, and a streak on vein 4 not connected 

 with 'it. 



Huh. rniLirpiXES, Manilla, 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. ir'emper. 



1040. Miltochrista gratiosa. 



F.uchiUa grnfio.^a, Guer. Dcless. Souv. Inde, ii. p. 90, ))1. 2(3. f. 1 (1843) ; 



Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 118; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3U(>. 

 Lithosia striata, Breiii. & Grev, Motsch. Et. Ent. i. p. 63 (1852); Kirby, 



Cat. Ret. p. 30(i. 

 liarsine dcfnta, Wlk. ii. TAi\ (1854) : Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3C6. 

 Hi/poprepia lanceolata, Wlk. vii. 1G80 (1856). 

 liarsine mactaus, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soo. 1877, p. 340 ; id. 111. Ilet. B. M. 



V. p. 39, pi. 8(). f. 13 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306. 

 Miltochrista pulchra, Butl. A.'M. N. H. (4)xx. p. 396 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. 



B. M. ii. p. 5, pi. 22. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306. 

 Niltochrista pulchra, var. pulchcrrima. Stand. Koin. IMeni. iii. p. 187 (1887). 

 Bar$ine flamviealis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 28, pi. 3. f. 15; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 306. 

 Barsine pretiosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 394 ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. 



p. 78, pi. 132. f. 6; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306. 

 liarmte htcibilis, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 107, pi. 3. f. 6 (1892). 

 AmmatJu) epixantha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1894, p. 2. 



Head and thorax orange-yellow, more or less suffused with crim- 

 son : palpi blackish ; vertex of head, shoulders, patagia, meso- and 

 metathorax, and fore and hind tibiae with more or less prominent 

 fuscous spots ; legs and abdomen yellow to crimson. Tore wing 

 orange or yellow ; a subbasal black point ; the costa streaked with 

 black to the antemedial fuscous line, which may be either continuous 

 or reduced to a series of points, bent inwards to costa ; a medial 

 fuscous line or series of points oblique and nearly straight or more 

 or less strongly bent inwards to costa ; a postmedial line or series of 



points angled at vein 5, 

 then oblique, and with a 

 more or less complete series 

 of fuscous streaks beyond 

 it on the veins ; series of 

 crimson elongate spots in 

 the interspaces before the 

 antemedial and before and 

 Fig. 3o5.— Miltochrista ffraiiosa, (^ . |. beyond the medial line ; a 



spot beyond the cell, and a 

 series of streaks in the interspaces of terminal area. Hind Aving 

 yellow to pale crimson. 



The form (plvaniha from the Khiisis and Burma has the crimson 

 markings almost obsolete, the lines punctiform ; a Japanese speci- 

 men is similar but with the lines continuous. The form drfecta 

 Irom Nepal has the ground-colour pale yellow ; striata from China, 

 and pxdchra from Japan, have the lines reduced to points, the 

 luscous streaks of terminal area slightly developed, the former 

 being a yeDow form ; (jratiosa from JS. India is a similar crimson 



