522 NOCTTJIDJ!. 



terminal series of striae ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with black. 



Hah. Ekazil, Castro Paraiia {D. Jones), 1 d" . Exj). 22 millim. 



5780, Lithacodia chloromixta, 



Bryophila cMoromixta, Alpb. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 21, pi. 2. f. 1 (1892). 



Head and thorax w^hite mixed with some olive-brown ; palpi 

 black, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; frons with 

 lateral black bars ; antenna; black ; tegulae with black line at base ; 

 patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; pectus and legs 

 white and blackish mixed, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white suffused with fuscous brown, the crests tipped with 

 black. Fore wing white suffused with pale olive-green and some 

 brown and slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line black 

 defined on outer side b}' white, slightly angled inwards in cell and 

 outwards below it, ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line black defined 

 on inner side by white, exj^anding into a spot at costa, then slightly 

 sinuous, bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform defined by a 

 curved black mark extending to cell and with a white spot beyond 

 it; orbicular white defined by black and its centre by brown, 

 round ; reniform white defined by black, its centre defined by 

 brown and irrorated with brown, its lower extremity waved and 

 somewhat broken up into spots; an oblique black medial shade 

 from costa to reniform and sinuous line from cell to inner margin, 

 a white spot beyond the reniform and another in submedian inter- 

 space before the postmedial line, which is black defined on outer 

 side by white towards costa and inner margin, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely and irregularly waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then retracted to lower inner extremity of reniform, 

 some black and white spots beyond it on costa and a white bar in 

 submedian interspace ; subterminal line slight, whitish defined on 

 inner side by black with brown suffusion before it and slight white 

 spots above and below vein 6, minutely waved, slightly angled 

 inwards below costa and incurved at discal fold, incurved below 

 vein 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules defined on inner 

 side by white ; cilia chequered dark brown and white and with 

 dark line near base. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; cilia white with dark line near base except towards tornus ; 

 the underside white irrorated with black-brown, a blackisb discoidal 

 spot and minutely waved postmedial line strongly excurved below 

 costa. 



Hah. W. China, Gan-su, Ou-pin, Chang-yang {Pratt), 2 6 , 

 Omei-shan, 1 cj' , Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 1 $, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 J, 

 Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 2 c5^ , Moupin {KricJieJdorff), 1 J . Ewj). 24- 

 30 millim. 



