276 ILATTIA; BERRESA; MALI ATTHA. By W. Warren. 



lateral stripe ; sometimes with greenish dorsal and subspiracular stripes ; head and anal segment ochreous with 

 black spots; feeding on Croton tiglium and aromaticum, sometimes becoming a pest. 



23. Genus : Ilattia Walk. 



Differs from Amyna in the presence of a fovea in the cell of f orewing of the $ before the inner line, masked 

 on the underside by a fan of scales on subcostal vein, the median vein only being slightly curved downwards 

 below it. Type I. octo Guen. 



oc t 0% I. octo Guen. (= perfundens Walk., cephusalis Walk., colon Guen., vexabilis Wlngrn., bavia Feld., 



orbica Morr., undulifera Btlr., tecta Grote) (51 m). Forewing grey brown with a reddish tinge; inner and outer 

 lines dark, obscure, conversely edged with whitish; an indistinct median shade; subterminal line whitish, pre- 

 ceded by a dark band, indented on submedian fold; a row of terminal dark points marked internally with white; 

 reniform stigma 8-shaped, incompletely white-ringed; hindwing grey-brown; the fringe grey-tipped; in the 

 axis, form axis Guen. (= stricta Walk., flavigutta Walk., inornata Walk., obstructa Walk., stigmatula Snell., albigutta 

 Walk., monotretalis Mob., supplex Swinh.) (511) the lower lobe of the reniform stigma is filled in with white; 

 leucospila. in leucospila Walk, the forewing is bright rufous. A cosmopolitan tropical insect occurring in E. Siberia, Corea, 

 China, and Kashmir. 



stellata. I. stellata Btlr. (52 b). Forewing redbrown; inner line dark, indistinct, marked on costa by a white 



striga, inwardly angled on vein 1 ;. outer line dark, edged externally by a few white scales, lunulate dentate, the 

 teeth forming whitish points on veins; subterminal line indistinct, dark, with a whitish bar from costa; reniform 

 stigma with round white spot at lower angle of cell and a slight whitish annulus above it ; hindwing grey brown 

 with a dark outer line faintly whitish-edged. From Japan only, where it seems to take the place of octo. 



24. Genus: Berresa Walk. 



Differs from Ilattia in the fovea of forewing being placed in the middle of cell with a rounded depression 

 at its centre ; the subcostal vein curved upwards above it and the median downwards below it, above an elongat- 

 ed groove lying on submedian fold; forewing short and broad, the costa shouldered at base and the apex blunt. 

 Type B. natalis Walk. 



natalis. B. natalis Walk. (= palpalis Walk., abyssa Snell., turpis Hmps. nee Walk., meeki Beth.-Baker) (51m). 



Forewing dull grey brown; inner and outer lines dark, obscurely double at costa, the outer dentate lunulate, 

 forming a series of dark points on veins ; the subterminal indistinct, generally preceded by a dark shade ; reniform 

 constricted at middle with an annulus of white points with black dots round them ; hindwing grey brown, some- 

 times with traces of a dark outer line. Rajaori, Kashmir; a common insect through India and the islands to 

 Australia. 



25. Genus: Maliattha Walk. 



Differs from Lithacodia Hbn. in having veins 3, 4 of hindwing stalked. Type Maliattha separata Walk. 

 from Borneo. 



vialis. M. vialis Moore (51 m). Forewing with basal and costal areas ochreous white, faintly brownish-tinged; 



the outer area from apex to middle of inner margin purplish fuscous, crossed by an irregularly waved whitish 

 outer line, which on inner margin becomes pure white ; a dark crenulate subterminal line ; hindwing pale fuscous ; 

 the $ has the outer area pinkish fuscous ; the outer line forming two conspicuous lunules above inner margin ; 

 hindwing dark fuscous, with the termen and fringe ochreous. Described originally from India, but occurring 

 also in Northern and Western China; the examples from Japan are referable, according to Leech, rather to 

 bella. the pinkish brown form bella Stgr. (51 m) from Amurland. 



signifera. M. signifera Walk. (= subfixa Walk.) (51m). Forewing in basal half whitish dusted with brown scales, 



and with a brown subbasal speck, in outer half brown with whitish patches on costa and inner margin, traversed 

 by the outer line, which is excurved round end of cell; the reniform stigma white, with two black specks on it 

 and a black spot beyond it; submarginal line whitish, waved, but indistinct, with some black streaks before 

 it; hindwing greyish white. China and Japan; a tropical species extending from India to Australia. 



laiivitta. M. lativitta Moore (= basalis Moore) (52 b). Forewing white with pale brown dusting in basal area; 



rest of wing and costa golden brown; inner line dark, inwardly oblique; outer line double, filled in with white 

 below costa, oblique to vein 6, inbent from 5 to cell, then single, white-edged, running out obliquely to tornus ; 



