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margin ; external third sliglitly darker than the rest of the wing, especially internally, 

 bounded on its inner edge by a partly black doubly arched undulated line ; outer edge of 

 fringe lunulated, bronze-brown spotted with silvery white : secondaries white, sericeous, 

 semitransparent : body white, the head, thorax, and base of abdomen tinted with green. 

 Under surface sericeous greenish white : primaries with five costal black spots, the tliird and 

 fifth large and elongated ; outer edge of fringe ornamented with black lunules : secondaries 

 with two series of black spots, one of which, in the inner series, closes the cell ; a few 

 scattered black submarginal scales and one or two on the fringe : legs white, ban-ed with 

 black ; venter dark brown, with whitish anus and white lateral dots. Expanse of wings 

 4.2 millim. 



" Laka, above Dharmsala, 11,000 feet; at light in June." 



LITHOSIID^. 



MILTOCHRISTA, HUba. 

 Miltochrista pretiosa. (Plate CXXII. fig. G.) 



Near to M.gratiosa, but the three series of grey spots ou the primaries so much widened 

 as to give the impression of three distinct transverse grey bands, the longitudinal nervular 

 grey lines on the dise widened so as to be partly confluent, forming a broad grey belt whicii 

 is only interrupted by yellow-edged iuternervular scarlet lines extending into an irregular 

 yellow external border; secondaries paler and more transparent than in M. c/ratiosa. Expanse 

 of wings, ^ 35 millim., $ 45 millim. 



Dharmsala, taken at sugar. 



The group to which this species belongs forms another of those oft recurring gi'oups of 

 constant though nearly allied forms which the too hasty worker is tempted to associate as 

 varieties : the series of M. pretiosa eolleeted by Mr. Hocking sufficiently proves the constancy 

 of the Dharmsala type. 



A worn female of Miltochrista congerens bears the label " Lijclene urtocarpi, Moore ;" 

 as it corresponds exactly in pattern with Felder's species, it can hardly be distinct. 



L. artocarpi is described by Mr. INIoore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 30, and again in 

 Descr. Ind. Lep. Ins. Atkinson, p. 33, where it is said to be most nearly allied to L. liiuiiilis, 

 Walk. : whether the example in Mr. Hocking's collection is identical witli the latter may be 

 considered doubtful. 



