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LITHOSIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
inducta. 
disiorta. 
impuncta. 
destriata. 
ietragona. 
sordida. 
oblonga. 
flavicosta. 
venosa. 
plumbeomi- 
caixs. 
costalis. 
1 uscistriga. 
cana. 
brunnea. 
hades. 
uniformis. 
simplex. 
unicolora. 
L. inducta Wkr. (14 f). Forewings brownish-grey; the basal half of the costal margin broadly white 
with a basal, black stripe in it; in the middle and before the margin faded blackish bands. Hindwing light 
yellow with a brownish-grey spot near the proximal angle. The $ has an orange-yellow anal tuft and instead 
of the median band a black dot at the lower cell-end. Nilgiris. 
L. distorta Moore (14 i). The $ is distinguished b}^ a large scent-scale spot in the middle of the costa 
on the hindwing, covered by the very convex proximal margin of the forewing. The forewing is brownish-grey, 
at the costal margin reddish ochreous-yellow with a black spot behind the middle, from which a dark band 
runs to the proximal margin. Hindwing light yellow, towards the apex darker, the scent-scale spot blackish- 
brown. The $ is striped ochreous-yellow in the cell-spaces of the marginal area, the costal margin is more yellow¬ 
ish-white and the costal-marginal spot more triangular. — In ab. impuncta nom. nov. $ (— ab. 1 Hmps.) 
from Nepal the black costal-marginal spot is absent. — ab. destriata $ (— ab. 2 Hmps.) is without the ochreous- 
yellow marginal stripe. Nepal; Sikkim; Assam; Pulo Laut. 
L. tetragona Wkr. (= tenuisigna Moore) (Yol. II, t. 13 d) has a yellowish-white forewing with a 
very large, longish-quadrangular, black spot in the middle, from the subcosta to the proximal margin, and 
a small, triangular black spot behind the middle of the costa. Hindwings light yellow. — In ab. sordida Btlr. 
the upper part of the discal spot is more rounded and the $ exhibits a short black stripe on the inner-marginal 
vein near the base. Widely distributed in India, Sikkim and Assam, and in China extending into the palearctic 
l’egion. — subsp. oblonga Btlr. has a shorter black discal spot not extending so far towards the base. Borneo 
(Sarawak). 
L, flavicosta Moore (14 i) has a dark brown forewing with a yellowish-white costal area and behind 
the middle a black spot in it; postmedian traces of a dark, oblique transverse line and in the cell-spaces of 
the marginal area yellowish stripes. Hindwings greyish-brown with yellowish fringes. Assam (Khasia Hills); 
Pulo Laut. 
L. venosa Moore (14 i) is very much like flavicosta, of a paler greyish-brown, the costal part only 
indistinctly lighter, the postmedian transverse line more distinct. Hindwings greyish-brown, in the $ light 
yellowish-brown. Sikkim; Assam; Burma. 
L. plumbeomicans Hmps. (14 h) likewise approximates the preceding, but the costal-marginal spot 
is removed more towards the apex, the transverse line being quite indistinct and the?* hindwings yellowish- 
white, towards the apex brownish. In the $ the costal spot is larger, the transverse line is more distinct and 
the cell-spaces towards the margin striped ochreous, hindwings darker. Sikkim, Assam. 
L. costalis Moore {— nubecula Moore, fimbriata Hmps.) (Vol. II, t. 13 d) differs from the preceding 
by the subcostally situate light longitudinal stripe; the proximal margin and the cell-spaces in the marginal 
area are striped darker; the costal spot is large and round. From Assam, Burma, the Andamans, Pulo Laut; 
in North China the species touches the palearctic region. 
L. fuscistriga Hmps. (14 h). Forewing greyish-brown with a leaden-lustrous, blackish-brown stripe 
in the cell below the end of the scent-scale stripe; basal half tinted reddish. Hindwing grey, towards the base 
yellowish. Assam, Burma. 
L. cana Hmps. (14 k) is unicolorously greyish-white, with a slight ochreous-yellowish tint. Hindwings 
yellowish-white. Assam (Khasis). 
L. brunnea Moore (14 i) has a blackish-brown forewing with a purple reflection and strewn with single 
black scales. Hindwings brownish-grey. Sikkim. 
L. hades B.-Balc. Head and thorax orange-red; metathorax and abdomen blackish-brown, the latter 
laterally and beneath reddish; legs brown, anterior femora orange. Wings unicolorously blackish-brown, the 
forewing with a small red basal spot. Dinawa (New Guinea). 
L. uniformis Hmps. (14 k) is unicolorously pale straw-coloured, on the forewing strewn with light 
brownish scales. Burma. 
L. simplex Wkr. (= microxantha Hmps.) (14 k) deviates from uniformis by its smaller size, more 
orange-yellow ground-colour, and shorter and broader wings. Burma, Borneo. 
L. unicolora B.-Bak. Head and thorax light ochreous-yellow, abdomen and legs ochreous yellowish- 
grey. Forewings pale ochreous-yellow, hindwings yellowish-white. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Dinawa; Aroa 
River, 
