MILTOCHEISTA. 
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margin ; external third slightly darker than the rest of the wing, especially internally, 
bounded on its inner edge by a partly black doubly arched undulated line ; outer edge of 
fringe lunulatcd^ bronze-brown spotted with silvery white : secondaries white, sericeous, 
semitransparent : body white, the head, thorax, and base of abdomen tinted with green. 
Under surface sericeous greenish white : primaries with five costal black spots, the tliird and 
fifth large and elongated ; outer edge of fringe ornamented with black lunules : secondaries 
with two series of black spots, one of vi'hieh, in the inner series, closes the cell ; a few 
scattered black submarginal scales and one or two on the fringe : legs white, barred with 
black ; venter dark brown, with whitish anus and white lateral dots. Expanse of wings 
42 millim. 
" Laka, above Dharmsala, 11,000 feet; at light in June." ' 
LITH0SIIDJ5. 
MILTOCHRISTA, Hlibn. 
Miltochrista pretiosa. (Plate CXXII. fig. 6.) 
Near to M. gratiosa, but the three series of grey spots on the primaries so much widened 
as to give the impression of three distinct transverse grey bands, the longitudinal nervular 
grey%nes on the disc widened so as to be partly confluent, forming a broad grey belt which 
is only interrupted by yellow-edged internervular scarlet lines extending into an irregular 
yellow external border; secondaries paler and more transparent than in M. gratiosa. Expanse 
of wings, 35 millim., $ 45 millim. 
Dharmsala, taken at sugar. 
The group to which this species belongs forms another of those oft recurring groups of 
constant though nearly allied forms which the too hasty worker is tempted to associate as 
varieties : the series of M. pretiosa collected by Mr. Hocking sutficiently proves the constancy 
of the Dharmsala type. 
A worn female of Miltochrista congerens bears the label " Lyclene artocarpi, Moore 
as it corresponds exactly in pattern with Felder's species, it can hardly be distinct. 
L. artocarpi is described by Mr. Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 30, and again in 
Descr. Ind. Lep. Ins. Atkinson, p. 33, where it is said to be most nearly allied to L. huinilis, 
Walk. : whether the example in Mr. Hocking's collection is identical with the latter may be 
considered doubtful. 
