lacteata. 
amorpha. 
fuseitincta. 
tegulata. 
ere da. 
latifasciata. 
fuliginosa. 
inconcisa. 
280 MALIATTHA. By W. Warren. 
and at middle; hindwing whitish tinged with ochreous brown. From the Punjab and Sikkim; also recorded from 
Madagascar and Mauritius. 
M. lacteata spec. nov. (26 d). Forewing pure white; the markings olive; a small costal triangular mark 
at base; inner line black, vertical, distinctly angled outwards on each fold; outer line oblique outwards at costa 
and interrupted, narrowly whitish beyond cell and indented on the cell fold, incurved below 4 and vertical 
to inner margin; median area olive except the reniform stigma and costal space above it, which are pure white, 
the stigma being represented by the black centre of lower lobe, more rarely by the upper one also; sub- 
terminal line white, preceded by a brownish olive patch at costa and another at middle of wing; the apex and 
termen with some olive scales; fringe olive with white basal line; hindwing whitish tinged with grey, with a 
dull grey cell spot; head, thorax, and abdomen white; the dorsal crests black. From the Punjab only. Nearest 
to picata Btlr., with which it has been hitherto confounded; but that is a more strongly marked insect, with¬ 
out the dark triangular patch at base of costa. Type in Tring Museum. 
M. amorpha Btlr. (26 a). Forewing white slightly tinged and irrorated with olive rufous, basal 
part of costa rufous with some dark scales; median area olive rufous, met beyond cell by an oblique diffuse 
rufous streak from apex with dark scales on it; terminal area rufous except towards apex; a white subbasal 
costal striga; inner line double filled in with white, the inner arm rufous, the outer black, erect, minutely 
waved; reniform a faint whitish lunule with two blackish dots on it; outer line double, rufous filled in with 
white, the inner arm mixed with some blackish , minutely waved, oblique to vein 6, excurved to 4, then incurved; 
subterminal line whitish, inwardly defined by rufous; some dark terminal striae; fringe rufous, traversed by 
a dark line; hindwing whitish suffused with rufous. Taken at Port Darwin, North Australia; Gayndah, Brisbane, 
and Moreton Bay, Queensland; and Paramatta, New South Wales; the form from the Tenimber Ids., — 
subsp. fuseitincta subsp. nov. (26a) — has the olive rufous tints replaced by purplish fuscous. 
M. tegulata Btlr. (26a). Forewing pure white; costal edge black towards base; a black dot in cell 
near base; a vertical wavy black median line, forming the inner edge of a broad black band widening below; 
an irregularly triangular blotch on termen from apex to tornus, the apex of which touches the median band on 
the submedian fold; fringe black brown; hindwing white tinged with pale brown, especially along termen. 
Recorded from Simla and Dharmsala in the Punjab, and from the Nilgiri Hills, Madras; occurs also at Foo-chau, 
Central China. 
M. erecta Moore (26 a). Forewing white tinged with rufous; the basal part of costa rufous; a 
black point in cell near base; median line black, somewhat inwardly oblique and minutely waved, with a broad 
deep rufous band beyond; two black discoidal points; outer line represented by a black striga on costa on 
the outer edge of the rufous band, traces of a rufous line beyond cell, and by a black line on outer edge of the 
rufous band below cell, excurved towards inner margin; an oblique diffuse rufous wedge shaped patch from apex 
to vein 5; subterminal line with black striga from costa, then slight and whitish, the area beyond rufous; 
fringe rufous, the tips black and white mixed; hindwing whitish tinged with brown; fringe whitish, with dark 
tips. Madras and Travancore, S. India. 
M. latifasciata Hmps. (26 a). Forewing ochreous irrorated with red brown; the median area black 
brown; terminal area suffused with black brown, leaving whitish patches on termen below apex and above 
tornus; some black brown also on costal area at base; inner and outer lines black conversely edged with 
white; the inner excurved above and below the median; the outer excurved beyond reniform, but touching 
its upper and lower ends, and waved from it to inner margin; reniform 8-shaped, white with the centres black; 
subterminal line white, inangled on both folds; a row of black terminal dots; fringe mottled fuscous and och¬ 
reous; hindwing fuscous brown, Avith a fine dark terminal line. Bombay. 
M. fuliginosa spec. nov. (26b). Resembles latifasciata Hmps., but much darker; basal area narrowly 
black; the Avhole terminal space beyond median fascia fuliginous, the reniform stigma and the much excurved 
fine outer line remaining grey; on each side of the median fascia at costa a distinct bright white spot; the sub- 
terminal line obscure, preceded by black blotches; hindwing fuliginous brown; underside wholly dull brownish 
grey; head and thorax black; abdomen fuliginous brown. From Bombay. Type in Tring Museum. 
M. inconcisa Btlr. (25 m). ForeAAdng white; an olive brown triangular patch on basal costal area; an 
olive brown median band, marked below middle only by a patch in submedian interspace; an olive brown spot 
