38 LITHOSIIDA. 
DEIOPEIA, Steph. 
Deiopeia cruentata. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 10.) 
Allied to D. venusta: primaries grey; the costal border crossed by five yellow-edged 
quadrate scarlet spots ; several black spots at the base ; three white-edged scarlet spots below 
the cell, the two last enclosed by the same white border and united by white bands of 
unequal width to the third and fourth costal spots; four white-edged scarlet spots on the 
lower half of the interno-median area and five with confluent borders near the outer margin ; 
external border broken up by white projections from the submarginal band of spots into 
dark grey spots, which extend into the white fringe ; internal border cream-coloured, spotted 
at base and beyond the middle with blackish: secondaries snow-white, semitransparent ; two 
blackish costal spots visible through the texture of the wing; two blackish dots on the disco- 
cellulars ; apical area and outer border to submedian vein broadly black-brown: head and 
thorax bright ochreous, spotted with scarlet and striped and spotted with black. Primaries 
below black, with whitish-edged irregular carmine bands on the external half, and with elon- 
gated carmine and white spots on the basal half: secondaries white, with two costal spots, 
an oblique subapical belt with zigzag inner edge, an apical spot, an irregular patch on the 
external border, and the fringe dark brown; costal border between the brown markings 
spotted with pink; pectus white, spotted with black; legs blackish above ; venter white, with 
black marginal dots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 limes. 
North India and Mauritius. 
There are four examples of this beautiful species in the collection, two from India and 
two from Mauritius. 
MILTOCHRISTA, Hiidn. 
Miltochrista nubifascia. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 11.) 
Barsine nubifascia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 251 (1864). 
Barsine punctifascia, Walker, Char. Undescr. Lep. p. 9. n. 13 (1869). 
Primaries above stramineous, crossed near the base by a curved series of brown dots and 
just before the middle by two parallel series ; a broad externally bisinuated greyish-brown 
discal band: secondaries and body cream-coloured. Under surface cream-coloured ; primaries 
with the basal half of costal border, a nearly central maculated band, which is continued by 
two dots across the costa of secondaries, and an abbreviated bisinuated discal band brown ; 
anterior tarsi banded above with black. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 hnes. 
Darjiling (Atkinson). 
