MALIATTHA. By W. Warren. 
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oval, outlined in black with fuscous centre and some white scales on its outer edge; median line blackish, sinuous; 
outer line double, filled in with ochreous at costa, then with whitish, obliquely downcurved to vein 6, then 
obliquely incurved; the apical patch with some whitish points on costa; subterminal line traceable only at costa 
and inner margin, marked there by two black spots on its inner side; hindwing ochreous yellow, the base tinged 
with fuscous. Described from a single $ from Tenasserim, Burma. 
E. endomela Hmps. (25 o). Forewing greenish grey, tinged in parts with rufous and dusted with black; endomela. 
the basal area suffused with blackish except towards inner margin; the median area black below submedian 
fold; subbasal hue black; inner line obliquely curved inwards, white; claviform stigma with black and white 
scales at extremity; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli outlined with black, the former round, the latter 
oval; a blackish median bar from costa; outer line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards to vein 6, then 
inwardly oblique and slightly projecting outwards at submedian fold; subterminal line defined by a dark 
shade preceding it; hindwing brownish fuscous. The Karen Hills, Burma; described from a single <$. 
E. mesomela Hmps. (25 h). Forewing rufous grey, more or less wholly suffused with black in basal, mesomela. 
median, and apical areas; inner line pale, evenly outcurved; orbicular and reniform stigmata with pale annuli 
defined by black, the former small and round, the latter oval; median line blackish, bent at middle; outer line 
double, filled in with whitish and below cell fold defined outwardly by whitish; subterminal line diffuse, pale, 
defined by blackish suffusion preceding it, forming patches above and lunules below middle; deeply incurved 
and paler beyond each fold; a row of black terminal dots; hindwing reddish brown; in ab. uniformis ab. nov. uniformis. 
(= ab. 1 Hmps.) the black suffusion is very slight. Ceylon. 
E. curvifascia Hmps. (25 h). Fore wing olive ochreous tinged with rufous; the costal area before curvifascia. 
middle, the median, and apical areas suffused with fuscous; lines blackish filled in with olive, all disposed as 
in the previous species; the stigmata also similar; hindwing fuscous. Bombay, Madras, and Burma. 
E. javensis spec. nov. (25 h). Differs from E. flavibasalis in having no orange patches nor bluish white javcnsis. 
scaling; the olive green ground colour being much suffused with deep olive fuscous, especially in median area 
and before subterminal line; the basal area also dark; the outer line more deeply dentate lunulate, with a white 
spot beyond it on costa and two distinct white superimposed lunules above inner margin; followed by a pure 
olive green band before the blackish praesubterminal shade; terminal area pale green, its inner edge tinged 
with pink in the $ and with white in the $, the apex dark; fringe white lined and tipped with brown, with a 
small brown patch at middle; hindwing in $ luteous white, in $ suffused with dull grey; underside of fore¬ 
wing dark fuscous with termen yellowish with dark speckling; of hindwing in $ yellowish white, the costal 
area rufous ochraceous speckled with dark, with dark cellspot and outer line marked towards costa; in $ more 
or less wholly grey with darker suffusion; head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous varied with olive fuscous. 1 $ 
4 $$ from Pengalengan, Preanger, Java. Type in the Tring Museum. 
89. Genus: MaliattJia Walk. 
Differs mainly from the succeeding genus Lithacodia Hbn. in having veins 3, 4 of the hindwing, 
except in Section 1, stalked. Type M. separata Walk. 
Sect. 1. Antennae o f <$ w i t h long fascicles of cilia; veins 3,4 of hindwing 
connate. 
M. plumbata Btlr. (= freda Swinh.) (25 h). Forewing rufous ochreous; costa to inner line pinkish plumbata. 
fuscous; inner line double, evenly excurved, accompanied in submedian interval by pink and black scales; 
orbicular stigma with its outer edge, the reniform with its inner, defined by rufous; base of veins 3, 4 with 
pink streaks; outer line double, black filled in with pink, oblique outwards to vein 6, incurved between 6 and 
4, then oblique and crenulate; veins 6, 5, 4 streaked with blackish; subterminal line indicated by dark cloud¬ 
ing before it, which is joined by an oblique shade from apex; terminal area pink dusted with fuscous; 
terminal black dots; fringe pink and fuscous; hindwing ochreous whitish suffused with fuscous; fringe ochreous. 
Recorded from the Punjab; the type of freda from the Nilgiri Hills, Madras. 
