508 NOCTUID^E. 



cell on a faint pale mark ; traces of a curved rufons medial line ; 

 postmedial line blackish defined on inner side by white towards 

 costa and on outer side below submedian fold, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and oblique below 

 vein 4 ; some black and white striae on costa towards apex ; a faint 

 oblique blackish shade from apex to postmedial line at vein 6 ; sub- 

 terminal line absent ; a fine brown terminal line with white band 

 before it from below apex to vein 4 ; cilia brown mixed with 

 whitisb and with a series of dark striae at middle. Hind wing 

 reddish brown ; cilia whitish with a dark line through them from 

 apex to submedian fold ; the underside ochreous white irrorated 

 with fuscous, a blackish discoidal spot, rather diifased curved post- 

 medial line, and fine black terminal line. 



Ilah. SiKHTSi [Duchjeon), 1 $ ; Assam, Khasis, 2 § type stolasa ; 

 Madras, Cuddapah {Campbell), 1 (S ; Ceylon, Pundaloya (Green), 

 1 S ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 5 ; Ptjlo Latjt (Doherti/), 1 $ ; 

 Java, Arjuno (Doherti/), 1 cS . Kvjj. 20-24 millim. 



5762. Lithacodia flavofinibria. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 2.) 

 Anchiroe flavofimbria, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 350, f. 231 (1891). 



S • Head and thorax yellow ; palpi, lower part of frons, antennae, 

 shoulders, and fore legs rufous, the fore tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 white ; abdomen yellow irrorated with brown, the crest on 3rd 

 segment rufous. Fore wing with the basal area, except the costa, 

 yellow, the rest of wing rufous, slightly mixed with 5rellow ; ante- 

 medial line pure white, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then 

 slightly incurved ; postmedial line pure white, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then somewhat inwardly oblique and obsolescent to sub- 

 median fold, a triangular white patch beyond it on costal area 

 and some white points on costa towards apex where there is a 

 blackish patch ; cilia rufous with a fine pale line at base. Hind 

 wing yellow, slightly irrorated with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal area suffused with rufous to the indistinct curved post- 

 medial line, a slight discoidal point. 



Hah. Madagascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 <S . Exp. 16 millim. 



5763. Lithacodia melaleuca, n. sp. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 3.) 



Head and thorax black-brown with a leaden-grey gloss ; pectus 

 and legs grey and fuscous, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen 

 fuscous mixed with some whitish, the crests black. Pore wing 

 black-brown with a leaden grey gloss and tinged in parts with 

 cupreous ; subbasal line represented by a slight brownish striga 

 from costa : antemedial line indistinct, black defined on inner side 

 by some brown scales, erect, waved ; orbicular and reniform 

 incompletel)^ defined by black, the former round, the latter con- 

 stricted at middle, its upper part confluent with a large triangular 

 pure white patch on costa ; postmedial line indistinct, double, 

 arising from apex of costal patch, excurved to submedian fold and 

 with whitish and rufous patch beyond it on inner area ; two white 

 points on costa towards apex; an indistinct dentate black sub- 



