MILTOCHRISTA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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and St. Petersburg. In the warmer districts the butterflies are very common, but they never appear in numbers. 
Proboscis well developed. Palpi straightly porrect or very little rising and projecting just beyond the forehead, 
the body rather roughly haired. Characteristic for the genus is the subcostal of the hindwing, being on a long 
petiole with the upper radial; the costal rises near the upper cell-angle. The two lower radial veins either rise 
separately or together or also on a short pedicle. On the forewing the lower median vein comes from the middle 
of the cell, the upper from below the lower cell-angle; the middle radial rises above it and the upper with the 
3 lower subcostal veins, which rise on a joint footstalk, from the upper cell-angle. Numerous subgenera have 
been established: the species with a median bent upward at the end and for this reason with a very short 
discocellular form the real Miltochrista ; Cabarda exhibits at the costal margin of the forewing behind the middle 
a hairy projection; in Mahavira the <$ has serrate antennae with long tufty cilia; in Gurnet the posterior tibiae 
in the $ do not exhibit any middle spurs, whilst in Barsine , containing by far the most species, they are present. 
The compact, long-haired larvae live on lichens. 
M. dentifascia Hmps. (18 a) looks like the palearctic miniata Forst, but it is easily recognizable by dentifascia. 
much more distinct black markings and two black antemedian and median transverse lines; in the basal part there 
are outside the cell some black dots. Assam and Burma; Java. 
M. phaeodonta Hnvps. has ochreous-yellow forewings with 4 black longitudinal streaks in the basal 
area; the anterior transverse line is bent very much outwards and does not reach the proximal margin; the 
feebly bent median advances below the costal margin very much to the proximal line; the posterior transverse 
line is very dentate above the proximal margin; behind it, towards the apex, there are some black stripes, 
and before the margin black dots. Hindwings pale ochreous-yellow, towards the margin spotted blackish. 
Sikkim. 
M. strigivenata Hmps. (18 b) is greatly distinguished by the absence of the postmedian dentate line 
and by only one black median line. The veins in the marginal area are finely marked black. Anterior body 
and anal end carmine, the middle part of the abdomen black. From Assam. 
M. javana nom. nov. (= rosacea Rothsch., nec Brem.). <§•. head, antennae and thorax yellowish, javema. 
with a pink hue on it; abdomen greyish buff. Forewings pink, along the costa with a yellowish tint, below 
vein 1 and along the margin the same; an oblique median band, a stigma, an antemarginal row of streaks, and 
a row of small marginal dots sooty black. Hindwings semi-diaphanous light pink. Length of forewings: 
12 mm. West Java. 
M. sequens Wkr. (= molliculana Wh\). For this peculiar species the subgenus Cabarda Wkr. was sequent. 
established. Body and wings are white, with yellowish-brown spots and bands; the abdominal end is black 
in the <$. The white forewing exhibits at the base two yellowish-brown spots, followed by a similar transverse 
line, then a median line being distally expanded like a tooth in the cell and above the proximal margin; behind 
the cell a transverse line proximally expanded above the said projections; an antemarginal row of yellowish- 
brown streaks. From Borneo. — In Sumatra there occurs a form in which the abdominal end remains white. 
This is sumatrana form. nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.). sumatrana. 
M. flavicollis Moore (18 a), owing to its male antenna, belongs to Mahavira Moore and is unmistakable flavicollis. 
by its ptirely white colour — only the collar being yellow, antennae and veins brownish. Sikkim. 
M. indica Moore (18 a) is the type for the subgenus Gurna Swinh . The brown forewings exhibit indica. 
orange-yellow spots at the base, cell-end and middle of the proximal margin. The hindwings are orange with 
a broad, blackish-brown marginal band; forehead, shoulder-covers and abdominal end orange. India (Bombay; 
Belgaum). 
M. complicata Btlr. (18 b) in the scheme of markings somewhat resembles dentifascia , but it has complicafa. 
short and round wings and is of a unicolorously ochreous-yellow ground-colour without any red. The ante- 
marginal dentate line has extremely long teeth. Borneo. 
M. ocellata Hmps. is easily recognizable by a large black ring-macula at the cell-end, otherwise occllata. 
marked somewhat like the preceding, but very much larger (expanse 4 cm). Ground-colour orange-yellow; 
median line absent; the very long-serrated posterior transverse line turns proximally round below the radial 
veins and is connected with the anterior transverse line above and below the submedian fold. Hindwings yellow. 
Ceylon. 
M. cardinalis Hmps. (18 b) cannot be confounded with any other species by the unicolorously scarlet cardinalis. 
forewings showing a black longitudinal stripe from the rise of the lower median vein to the border. Sikkim; 
Assam. 
pliacodorila. 
siriqivena- 
ta. 
