528 NoCTtriDiE. 



ill-defined dark spots; cilia brown. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with red-brown ; traces of a discoidal point and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. SiKHiM. Exp. 28 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



5790. Lithacodia aurata. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 23.) 



Motdina aurata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 110, pi. 4. f. 10 (1882); Hmpsn. 

 Mohhs Ind. ii. p. 30i. 



(S . Head and thorax pale green mixed with rufous and some 

 oohreous white and black scales ; tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed 

 with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous white mixed with brown, the 

 crests rufous, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 golden green, the costal area dark red-brown with some white 

 irroration, some brown and white irroration on base of inner 

 margin ; antemedial line brown, oblique to submedian fold, then 

 incurved ; claviform defined by white and brown at extremity, 

 some white suffusion below it and brown irroration beyond it ; 

 orbicular and reniform green with very incomplete white annuli 

 defined in parts by brown and with dark brown quadrate patch 

 between them, the former round ; an oblique sinuous brown line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; vein 4 irrorated with 

 brown and white to the postmedial line, which is brown at costa, 

 middle and inner margin, green defined on outer side by white 

 between those points, bent outwards below costa then sinuous, 

 incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1, some yellow points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line green defined on inner side 

 by red-brown suffusion, except below vein 2, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of 

 small dark lunules ; cilia pink at base, red brown at tips. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with brown, the disk paler ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia pink with a fine ochreous line at ba,se ; the 

 underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal 

 spot and minutely waved postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 7000' (Moller), 1 c? • Kvp. 30 millim. 



*5791. Lithacodia decorata. 



Motama decorata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. Ill, pi. 4. f . 8 (1882); Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 302. 



Head and thorax dark golden brown irrorated with grey ; palpi 

 black, the extremities of joints white ; tibiae and tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen brown. Fore wing deep golden brown, the 

 costal area and veins irrorated with white ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double dark striae from costa ; antemedial line dark, 

 erect, minutely waved ; claviform and orbicular yellow defined by 

 brown and with dark points in centre, small, rounded ; reniform 



