Iain-etna 
per pic.ret. 
germanet. 
elect tee i. 
.ranthocras- 
piz. 
han't nokt. 
htriela. 
pitlrcreola. 
panel if era. 
one garret. 
f rater net. 
brevipennw. 
intermixta. 
fuseipes. 
nan dale a net. 
nigripes. 
(Ice-re! a. 
pntvereei. 
210 LITHOSIA. By Dr. M. Drafdt. 
with some brown scales, the costal margin is reddish-yellow. Hindwing chalky white, at the proximal margin 
and border yellow. The under surface of the wings is yellow, in the disc of the forewing a brown tint. Expanse 
of wings: 28 mm. Sikkim. 
L. taiwana Wil. Head and collar orange. Thorax blackish-grey; abdomen grey, the encl tinted yellowish- 
orange. Forewing narrow, blackish-grey, costal stripe orange, at the apex tapering into a dot; fringes tinted 
orange. Hindwing light whitish-brown, costal area suffused with dark, 34 mm. Formosa. In some respect 
it resembles japonica Leech (Vol. IT. t. 12 h). but it has narrower wings, the costal stripe being darker and exten¬ 
ding to the apex. 
L. perplexa Roihsch. Antennae brown. Forehead dark grey, vertex orange like the collar and the 
distal half of the shoulder-covers, the thorax otherwise violettish-grey; abdomen drab with a yellow anal tuft. 
Forewing violettish-grey. at the base and costal margin reddish-yellow, the latter colour extending also round 
the apex and very narrowly at the distal margin, dying eway at the proximal angle. Hinclwings reddish-yellow. 
Length of forewings: 18 mm. Astrolabe Bay. 
L. germana Rothsch. is allied to perplexa. but easily discernible by its black antennae, quite orange- 
yellow head, orange-reddish abdomen, and slate-coloured forewing with an equally broad, orange-yellow 
costal margin and distal margin. Length of forewings: 20 mm. Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains in Dutch 
New Guinea. 
L. ekeikei B.-Bak. Head and collar straw-coloured, thorax grey; abdomen yellowish-grey, legs yellow. 
Forewing grey with a broad, straw-coloured costal margin and distal margin growing much narrower towards 
the proximal angle, like in perplexa ; also at the base of the proximal margin there is a short, yellow diffuse spot. 
Hinclwings unicolorously straw -coloured. Expanse of wings: 39 to 40 mm. Ekeikei, January and February. 
L. xanthocraspis Hmps. {=- nigripars Hmp.s.) (15c) has yellowish-white forewings intermixed with 
dark scales; costal margin and base of fringes orange-yellow, abdomen brownish-grey, white-haired, anal tuft 
yellow. Sikkim. 
L. basinota Moore (Vol. II, t. 12 g). The forewings are unicolorously dark brownish-grey intermixed 
with grey scales, and a grey spot at the base of the proximal margin. Hindwing whitish, towards the costal 
margin brownish. Sikkim. The smaller, paler snbsp. lurida Btlr. is found in the North West Himalaya on the 
palearctic region. 
L. pulvereola Hmp.s. (15 c) has greyish-brown forewings intermixed with darker brown scales. Hind- 
wings lighter. South East Borneo. 
L. punctifera limps. (15 c) is unicolorously red-brown, in the £ with a black discal dot. Ceylon. 
L. owgarra B.-Bak., described from New Guinea, is somewhat smaller than nigripes (15 d). somewhat 
larger than xanthocraspis (15 c), of a dee]) sepia-brown with a chocolate tint, the forewing speckled ochreous- 
yellow, particularly along the fold, and somewhat more narrowly along the costa. Hindwing in both sexes 
greyish, towards the apex darker. 
L. fraterna Btlr. (15 d) is larger than the preceding, unicolorously orange, without a black discal 
dot, at the costal margin dusted somewhat purple-grey. Guadalcanal’ (Salomons). 
L. brevipennis 117;/'. (— punctifera- Hm-ps.). The $ has yellowish brownish-grey, the $ ochrcous- 
yellow wings, the hinclwings are yellow. India, Ceylon, Borneo, Sumbawa. — f. itltermixta Wkr. (15 d). with 
the type from Coimbatore, is somewhat larger, darker brownish-grey: — f. fuseipes Hmps. (15 d) from Ceylon 
is smaller, more straw-colourecl. hindwing in the disc dusted grey, somewhat diaphanous. — sandakatia snbsp. 
nov. (= ah. 1 Hmps.) from Borneo (Sandakan) exhibits beneath a stripe of reddish-yellow scales below the inner- 
marginal vein. 
L. nigripes Hmps. (15 d) is a large, intensely orange species; 3rd palpal joint, antennae and legs are 
black, ventral side banded black. In the <$ also the base of the costa is black. Sikkim, Assam. 
L. decreta Btlr. (— monochroa Trnr.) (14 1) is much smaller and paler orange, without the black 
base of the costal margin of the <$. Borneo: Queensland. 
L. pulverea 1177. is allied to moorei Leech (Vol. II, t. 12 1) from Central and West China, q head, 
thorax and forewing rusty-yellow, dusted light grey; hinclwings and abdomen light greyish-brown. Beneath 
as above, but the forewings not dusted grey. 40 mm. One £ from Rantaitsan. Formosa, taken in May. 
