EUPEEPIA.— MILTOCHEISTA. 7 



white at the base and anus, a dorsal series of black spots ; palpi externally rose-red, Tvith black 

 tips ; anterior coxae and upper surface of all the femora bright red ; knees and tarsi banded 

 with black : primaries below with the costal border slightly ochraceous and with a subbasal 

 red diffased streak ; a black discocellular dot, two subapical dots, and an oblique series of four 

 spots across the median branches black ; secondaries with a black discocellular spot, a spot 

 on the discoidal interspace, and a third larger one on the interno-median interspace. Expanse 

 of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 

 Hong-Kong {Bowriny). 



EUPEEPIA, Ochs. 



Euprepia phaeosoma. (Plate XLII. fig. 10.) 



Euprepia phseosoma, Butler, Ann. 6( Mag. Nat. Hist. scr. 4, vol. xx. p. 395. n. 8 (1877). 



2 . General pattern and coloration of E. caja, but the white banding of the primaries 

 more simple, the secondaries paler at the base, with the spots fewer and not bordered with 

 yellow ; the anterior half of the collar red, with a white spot at the lateral angles ; outer 

 margin of the tegulae white ; abdomen brown, with the hind margins of the segments rose-red. 

 Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 

 Yokohama (Junas). 



Readily distinguished from E. caja by the colour of the body. 



THANATAKCTIA, Butler. 



Thanatarctia infernalis. (Plate XLII. fig. 9.) 



Thanatarctia infernalis, Butler, Ann. 6( Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 395. u. 9 (1877). 



Wings and thorax black-brown ; margins of collar, eyes, palpi, and the pectus rose-red ; 

 abdomen rose-red, with a dorsal series of black spots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 

 Hakodate. 



LITHOSIID.E. 

 MILTOCHEISTA, Hubner. 

 Miltochrista inscripta. (Plate XLII. fig. 11.) 

 $ . Sesapa inscripta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 547 (1854). 



Primaries above chalky white, costal and external borders rose-coloured; three blackish 

 lines across the wing, the two first transverse, subparallel, dentate-sinuate, the third oblique 

 and deeply dentated ; two oblique blackish dashes just beyond the cell and seven in a regular 

 curved series parallel to the outer margin ; secondaries rosy : head white, with two black spots ; 



