MILTOCHRISTA. 



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form, but with the fuscous streaks strongly developed; pretiosa, 

 mactans, and fammealis have the lines more continuous, the medial 

 line bent inwards to costa, pretiosa from the jN". W. Himalayas having 

 the ground-colour yellow, mactans and flammealis from Sikhim 

 tinged with crimson, the latter being a large strongly-marked 

 form ; lucibilis from Borneo is a yellow form, the lines continuous, 

 the medial line straight, the crimson streaks of medial area elongate. 

 Hab. Amur, type t puJcIicrrima in Coll. Staudinger ; Japan, 

 Yesso {Pnjer, Andreivs), Nikko {Lewis, Jonas, Maries), tyT[)e pulchra, 

 Tokio {Fenton), type f lanceolata in Mus. Oson. ; China, Hongkong 

 {J. J. Walker) ; N.W. Himalayas, Dharmsala (Hoching), type 

 jvetiosa ; Nepal {Hardiviche), type defecta ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 

 Moore Coll., types mactans and Jtammealis ; Assam, Khasi Hills ; 

 Cachar ; NiLGiRis (Hampson) ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo, type t 

 lucibilis in Mus. Oxon. Kvp. 34-46 millim. 



1041. Miltochrista curtisi. (Plate XXXII. fig. 20.) 



Miltochrista curtisi, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) viii. p. 379 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 308. 



5 . Head and thorax yellow ; tegulge, patagia, and metathorax 

 edged with crimson ; legs tinged with crimson ; abdomen pale 

 crimson. Fore wing yellow, some fuscous-brown marks at base ; 

 scarlet streaks from base just below costa, in submedian fold, and 

 on inner margin, interrupted by the broad brown antemedial band 

 which forks towards costa and expands at middle, enclosing a, scarlet 

 spot ; a scarlet streak in cell from the antemedial to the very broad 

 postmedial brown band, which has a crimson streak above it on costa; 

 traces of a streak above vein 5, its outer edge irregular, and a series 

 of streaks from it to termen. Hind wing pale crimson. Underside 

 of fore wing largely suffused with crimson. 



Hah. Sumatra (Curtis), 1 § type. Kvp. 50 millim. 



1042. Miltochrista rubricostata. 



Hypocrita rubricostata, Herr.-Sehaff. Aussereiir. Schmett. i. p. 439 (1855) ; 



Swinb. Cat. Het. Mns. Oxon. p. 108 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 308. 

 Hypoprepia rubrigutta, Wlk. Journ. Linn. See, Zool. vi. p. 101 (1862). 



Yellow ; vertex of head, shoulders, and fore tibias with fuscous 

 spots ; patagia and metathorax edged with scarlet. Pore wing with 

 scarlet spots, a slight streak below median nervure and on inner 

 margin and three fuscous points at base ; an oblique elliptical scar- 

 let spot below the cell on an antemedial fuscous band, which expands 

 at middle and encloses a yellow point on costa ; a scarlet mark from 

 its outer edge to the broad fuscous postmedial band, which has its 

 outer edge irregular and a series of scarlet streaks on it, some of 

 them sometimes interrupted at middle and the streak nearest the 

 costa on a yellow ground. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hab. Labuan ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wcdlace), 1 § , 1 c? type f 

 rubrigutta m Mus. Oxon., Kina Balu. Exp., c? 30, $ 40 millim. 



