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yellowish, with black markings, but some species are black, 

 while others are suffused, spotted, or striped with red ; and a 

 few exotic species with green or blue. The larvae are generally 

 brightly coloured, with hairy warts. 



Although this Family has numerous representatives in all 

 parts of the world, it attains its maximum of development, 

 both in the variety, and in the size of the species, in the East 

 Indies, and especially in India itself. 



GENUS MILTOCHRISTA. 



Miltochrista> Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 166 (1822?); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 553 (1854). 

 Calligenidi Duponchel, Cat. Lepid. Eur. p. 59 (1844). 



The European species of this genus, which is the repre- 

 sentative of a very large Indian group, differs from others 

 of the Family by the arched costa and rounded fore-wings 

 (the costa in most genera of Lithosiida being nearly straight), 

 its red colouring, and the zig-zag transverse lines on the 

 fore-wings. The latter are nearly as broad as the hind- 

 wings, which is also unusual in European Lithosiidte. It 

 flies at dusk in the neighbourhood of woods, and is not un- 

 common. 



The larva feeds on lichens. 



THE ROSY FOOTMAN. MILTOCHRISTA MINIATA. 



Geometra miniata, Forster, Nov. Spec. Ins. p. 75 (1771). 

 Bombyx rosea, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 587, no. 109 (1775); 



Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 386, Taf. 77, figs. 1-3 (1786). 

 Noctua rubicunda^ Denis & Schiffermiiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien, p. 68, no. 10 (1776). 



Bombyx rubicunda^ Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i, ii. fig. in (1804). 

 Lithosia rosea^ Ochsenheimer, Schrn^tt. Eur. iii. p. 145 (1810). 



