488 



AKCTIAD^. 



postmedial line strongly excurved from below costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved, a forked streak from it on veins 7, 8, a streak on vein 6 

 nearly reaching termen, and a streak on vein 4 not connected 

 with it. 



Hah. PniLiPPiJfJES, Manilla, 1 § . Exp. 40 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Semper. 



1040. Miltochrista gratiosa. 



Eitchclia gratiosa, Guer. Deless. Souv. lude, ii. p. 90, pi. 26. f. 1 (1843) ; 



Hmpsii. Moths Ind. ii. p. 118; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306. 

 Liihosia striata, Brem. & Grey, Motsch. Et. Ent. i. p. 63 (1852) ; Kirby, 



Oat. Het. p. 306. 

 Barsine dejecta, Wlk. ii. .546 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306. 

 Htjpoprepia lanceolata, Wlk. vii. 1680 (1856). 

 Barsine mactans, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 340 ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 



T. p. 39, pi. 86. f. 13 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306. 

 Miltochrista pulchr a, BxAl. A. M. JST. H. (4)xx. p. 396 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. 



B. M. ii. p. 5, pi. 22. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306. 

 Miltochrista fulchra, var. fulcherrima, Stand. Rom. Mem. iii. p. 187 (1887). 

 Barsine flammealis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 28, pi. 3. f. 15; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 306. 

 Barsine pretiosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 394; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. 



p. 78, pi. 132. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306. 

 Barsine liicibilis, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 107, pi. 3. f. 6 (1892). 

 Ammatho epixctntha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 2. 



Head and thorax orange-yellow, more or less suffused with crim- 

 son ; palpi blackish ; vertex of head, shoulders, patagia, meso- and 

 motathoras, and fore and hind tibia3 with more or less prominent 

 fuscous spots ; legs and abdomen yellow to crimson. Fore wing 

 orange or yellow ; a subbasal black point ; the costa streaked with 

 black to the antemedial fuscous line, which may be either continuous 

 or reduced to a series of points, bent inwards to costa ; a medial 

 fuscous liue or series of points oblique and nearly straight or more 

 or less strongly bent inwards to costa ; a postmedial line or series of 



points angled at vein 5, 

 then oblique, and with a 

 more or less complete series 

 of fuscous streaks beyond 

 it on the veins ; series of 

 crimson elongate spots in 

 the interspaces before the 

 antemedial and before and 

 beyond the medial line ; a 

 spot beyond the cell, and a 

 series of streaks in the interspaces of terminal area. Hind wing 

 yellow to pale crimson. 



The form einxantha from the Tvhasis and Burma has the crimson 

 markings almost obsolete, the lines punctiform ; a Japanese speci- 

 men is similar but with the lines continuous. The form dcfecta 

 from Nepal has the ground-colour pale yellow ; striata from China, 

 and jmlcJira from Japan, have the lines reduced to points, the 

 fuscous streaks of terminal area slightly developed, the former 

 being a yellow form ; gratiosa from S, India is a similar crimson 



Pig. 355. — Miltochrista gratiosa, (^ . 



