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of cell ; a submarginal series of more or less conjoined streaks ; a 

 marginal series of specks. Hind wing white, the outer margin 

 slightly suffused with brown. 



Mab. Ceylon. Exp., <$ 22, $ 24 millim. 



1423. Nepita frigida, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 530; C. $ S. no. 645. 

 Lyclene diffusa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 111. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white. Fore wing 

 white ; a basal yellowish-brown patch with a spot beyond it ; a 

 subbasal irregular brown band ; the whole disk suffused with 

 yellowish brown, leaving patches of white on the margins, and two 

 curved series of postmedial white specks bent inwards below the 

 cell, the brown area reaching almost to the margin, below apex 

 and above outer angle ; cilia spotted with pale brown. Hind wing 

 white ; the outer area slightly suffused with brown. 



Specimens from Sikhim and the Naga Hills have the hind wing 

 suffused with fuscous and a black spot at end of cell. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Burma ; Borneo. Exp., tf 21, 2 24 millim. 



Genus MILTOCHRISTA. 



Miltochrista, Hubn. Verz. p. 1G6 (1818). 

 Sesapa, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 547(1854). 

 Lyclene, Moore, Cat. E. I. Co. p. 300 (1858). 

 Cyllene, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 543 (praeocc). 

 Barsine, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 546. 

 Setinochroa, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 9 (1875). 

 Korawa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 11. 



Type, M. miniata, Forst., from Europe. 



Range. Palasarctic, ^Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi short and porrect. Antennae with the cilia long in male, 

 minute in female, or bipectinated in male. 



Tibise with the spurs rather short. Fore wing with vein 5 from 

 just above lower angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle, or stalked with 

 7, 8, 9 ; 10 from close to the angle or some way before it; 11 

 from one-half to three-fourths length of cell and straight, or curved 

 and running close along 12, or anastomosing with 12. Hind wing 

 with vein 5 on a short stalk with 4, or from a point with it, or 

 from above the angle ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 8 from near end of cell. 

 These variations occur in similar specimens from the same localities. 



Sect. I. {Miltochrista). Pore wing with the cell narrow ; 

 antennae of male ciliated. 



1424. Miltochrista strigivenata, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax crimson ; abdomen black with the base 

 ochreous, the anal tuft ochreous, tipped with crimson. Fore wing 

 bright crimson ; the costa slightly black ; a prominent oblique 

 medial straight black line ; the veins beyond the cell streaked with 

 black. Hind wing paler. 



Hab. Naga Hills, 6000 feet (Doherty). Exp. 25 millim. Type 

 in coll. Elwes. 



