LITHACOBTA. 551 



nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly excurved above inner 

 margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular hardly defined except by an 

 oblique white bar on its outer edge ; reniform incompletely defined 

 by black, constricted at middle ; some black suffusion in cell between 

 the stigmata and as a short diffused streak beyond the renifoi'm in 

 discal fold ; an incurved blackish shade from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with 

 whitish, oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 6, incurved below 

 vein 4, and slightly excurved at vein 1, some slight whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; faint ti'aces of a pale minutely waved sub- 

 terminal line with minute blackish streak before it below costa ; a 

 terminal series of minute blackish lunules. Hind wing pale 

 ochreous brown ; cilia whitish with a brown line near base ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, 

 curved minutely waved postmedial line, and terminal series of dark 

 striae. 



Uah. Japan, Nagasaki (Leech), 1 c? type ; Centr. China, 

 Ning-po, 1 c? , 1 $ . Exp. 30 millim. 



5826. Lithacodia picta. (Plate CLXV. fig. 14.) 



Erastria picta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 514 (1896). 



S . Head and thorax pale rufous with a few fuscous scales 

 especially on shoulders and patagia ; palpi black at sides, the tips 

 of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; antennae and tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen pale rufous irrorated with fuscous, the crests 

 tipped with black. Eore wing pale yellowish rufous, the costal 

 area and vein 1 to middle, a patch on medial area below the cell, 

 the extremity of median nervure and veins 6, 4, 3 to submedian 

 line with leaden grey suffusion ; antemedial line blackish, slightly 

 angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique to inner margin 

 near middle ; claviform represented by a pinkish bar with a diffused 

 dark streak beyond it; orbicular and reniform small, ill-defined, 

 with some pinkish on them, the former round, the latter with a 

 slight dark streak beyond it ; postmedial line blackish defined by 

 white on outer side, oblique and minutely sinuous to vein 6, angled 

 inwards at discal fold, oblique below vein 4 and slightly incurved 

 at submedian fold ; an obli(]ue olive-brown fascia from apex to 

 postmedial line at discal fold; a white subterminal spot below 

 discal fold with a blackish line defined on inner side by white from 

 it to vein 2 ; cilia chequered reddish brown and white with a slight 

 dark line near base. Hind wing ochreous yellow, the inner half 

 irrorated with brown; traces of a sinuous postmedial line; dark 

 marks on the extremities of veins 4, 3, 2 ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia with a dark line near base, the tips chequered white and 

 brown ; the underside with the basal half irrorated with fuscous, 

 the costal and terminal areas tinged with rufous, a black discoidal 

 spot and punctiform sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Assam, Kh;isis, 1 S type. Exp. 26 millim. 



