8 LITHOSIlDiE. 



thorax white, collar and tegulae spotted with red ; a black dot on each shoulder ; abdomen 

 pale greyish brown, whitish at the base ; pectus white ; venter blackish, with testaceous anal 

 segments : primaries below rosy, deepest upon the borders ; the markings as above, but 

 obscured bv a greyish suffusion ; secondaries as above. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 

 North China (Fortune) . 



The insect described by Walker as the male seems to be S. erubescem, but the two 

 species were not associated in the cabinet and are very distinct. 



Miltochrista rhodophila. (Plate XLII. fig. 12.) 

 Barsine rhodophila, Walker, Cat. Lep. Set. (S'wpjj?. i. p. 254 (1864). 



Rosy ; primaries with darker costal and external margins ; a triangular blackish patch 

 intersected by rosy veins near the base, and a broad irregular belt beyond the middle 

 intersected by the veins, and interrupted at the end of the cell by a rosy spot ; fringes 

 yellowish ; tibiae terminating in blackish spots : body below yellow ; wings below rather paler 

 than above. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Shanghai; Mongolia. 



COLLITA, Moore. 



Collita aegrota. (Plate XLII. fig. 13.) 

 lithosia ^grota, Butler, Ann. <^- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 307 (1877). 



Primaries above shining grey, with stramineous costa and fringe ; secondaries clear 

 stramineous ; thorax grey, with stramineous head and shoulders ; abdomen stramineous, 

 gi-eyish at the base : primaries below dark grey ; costa ochreous, outer border broadly clear 

 stramineous ; secondaries and under surface of body stramineous ; legs black. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



llakoAa.te [fF/iitely) . 



TATARGYNA, Butler. 



Tatargyna formosa. (Plate XLIII. fig. 1.) 



Tatargyna formosa, Butler, Tram. Eat. Soc. 1877, p. 36G. n. 280. 

 Deiopeia picta, var. /3, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 264 (1864). 



Allied to T. picta, but with the white-bordered grey bands of primaries broader, more 

 oblique, and less angular ; the secondaries with four more or less interrupted costal bands ; a 

 spot at the inferior angle of the cell, a second on the middle of the first median branch, and 

 an irregular interrupted litura across the interno-median interspace. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 2 lines. 



South China [Seemann). 



