506 NOCTFIDJI. 



5758. Lithacodia l)setica. (Plate CLXIIT. fig. 32.) 



Tarache batica, Swinb. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 224; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 305. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged with rufous, 

 the last with the crests tipped with black. Pore wing ochreous 

 white tinged with rufous ; a patch of rufous suffusion on base of 

 costa crossed by a pale subbasal striga ; antemedial line blackish 

 defined on inner side by whitish, oblique from costa to eubcostal 

 nervure, angled outwards in submedian interspace and inwards on 

 vein 1, a broad oblique band of rufous and dark brown suffusion 

 beyond it ; orbicular absent ; reniform an elliptical whitish mark 

 with black points on it at the angles of cell ; postmedial line iu- 

 distinctly double filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, oblique to vein 4 and slightly bent outwards at vein 1, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; terminal area suffused with 

 dark brown and greyish, the subterminal line slight, whitish 

 defined on inner side by minute dentate black marks, escurved 

 below vein 7 and slightly at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown ; cilia pale 

 with a dark line through them ; the underside yellowish irrorated 

 with red-brown, a rather diffused curved postmedial line and dif- 

 fused subterminal line. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 1 $ ; Burma, Eangoon, 2 c? , 1 $ fyps- Exp. 

 c? 14, $ 18 millim. 



5759. Lithacodia cafifristis, n. sp. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 1.) 



Maliattha vialis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Af'r. Mus. ii. p. 377 (nee Moore). 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi with some black 

 scales ; fore tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous 

 white irrorated with fuscous, the crests tipped with black. Fore 

 wing whitish tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated with 

 brown esi)eeially on costa ; the terminal area grey-brown obliquely 

 from apex to inner margin before middle, defined on inner side by 

 some black scales and leaving an ochreous semi-elliptical patch on 

 termen and another patch on inner area beyond the postmedial line, 

 which is indistinctly double filled in with white, bent outwards 

 below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, below which there 

 is a black mark below it ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 pinkish and fuscous with a black line through them and black 

 patches at apex and middle. Hind wing ochreous white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, the apex suffused with brown ; traces of a 

 sinuous postmedial line ; a fine black terminal line ; the underside 

 irrorated with black, a blackish diseoidal point, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and rather punctiform terminal line. 



IJab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



