LEXIS. 117 



5 . Yellowish white ; palpi at tips, antennse, and greater part 

 of legs black ; patagia and metathorax with black patches ; abdomen 

 orange, greyish towards base. Pore wing with round black spot 

 beyond discocellulars and irregular spot on vein 2. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow. Underside orange-yellow, with some fuscous 

 suffusion in cell. 



Hab. Burma, Shan States, Koni, 1 5 , type of both descriptions. 

 Exjp. 52 millim. 



B. Palpi not reaching as far as frons; fore coxte of male 

 not tufted with hair. 



a. Fore wing with black lin es alterna. 



b. Fore wing without black lines. 



a^. Fore wing with postmeclial black spots on disco- 

 cellulars and in submedian fold hipimctigera. 



b^. Fore wing without black spots. 



or. Fore wing fuscous below, the marginal areas 

 orange. 

 a^. Fore wing fuscous with orange costal fascia. 



a*. Head yellow immaculata. 



a*. Head fuscous hicolor. 



b^. Fore wing uniform orange-yellow nitens. 



b^. Fore wing uniform orange-yellow below fulveola, 



c'-. Fore wing uniform fuscous-brown phmola. 



221. Lexis alterna. 



Setina alterna, Wlk. ii. 520 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 340. 



Lithosia histrionica, H.-S. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 440 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 340. 

 Lithosia transversa, Wlk. xxsi. 229 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 340. 



Orange-yellow ; palpi at tips and antennae blackish ; tegulae with 

 blackish band ; patagia and thorax mostly black ; abdomen orange, 

 doi sally greyish, often tinged with black, and with ventral black 

 bands. Fore wing yellowish wbite to orange-yellow ; a black fascia 

 on basal half of costa, sometimes with short separate streak below 

 it at base ; the antemedial line very irregular, bent outwards in cell 

 and interrupted at median nervure ; an irregularly dentate post- 

 medial line angled outwards at vein 6 and inwards on median 

 nervure ; a diffused black terminal band more or less expanding at 

 middle. Hind wing with terminal black band expanding very 

 widely on apical area, narrowing to tornus and sometimes angled 

 inwards on vein 1. 



Ab. 1. transversa. Hind wing with the terminal band obsolete 

 except some diffused black on apical area. 



Hah. Australia, 1 S type, 2 J {Hunter) ; K. S. Wales, Moreton 

 Bay (Biggies), 2 2 , Sydney {Baynor, Matheiv), 1 J , 1 $ ; Victoria, 

 Melbourne, 1 $ ; S. Australia {Bakewell), 1 J , type transversa. 

 E,vp. 30-36 millim. 



