Miltochrista scripta (Walker, [1865])

Walker, F. ([1865]). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the
Collection of the British Museum, part 31 (Supplement): p. 254. Described in the
genus Barsine.

Barsine scripta.

Mas. Pallide lutea; caput nigro biguttatum; antennae setulosae; thorax nigro
quadriguttatus; abdomen basi subtus fusco fasciatum; alae anticae guttis tribus
basalibus nigris, strigis lanceolatis, linea transversa arcuata, lineis duabus
exterioribus transversis strigisque submarginalibus fuscis; posticae pallide
flavae.

Male. Pale luteous. Head with a black dot on the vertex and an elongated black
dot on the front. Palpi not extending beyond the head. Antennae black, setulose,
pale luteous at the base. Thorax with a black dot on each of the four tegulae.
Abdomen with a brown band at the tip beneath. Fore legs brownish. Fore wings
with three black dots at the base and with several dark brown markings; these
consist of some lanceolate streaks near the base, an outward-curved transverse
line, two transverse lines which recede far from each other in the fore part of
the disk, and eight submarginal brown streaks, of which the second from the
costa is forked; exterior border and fringe blackish brown. Hind wings pale
yellow. Length of the body 6 1/2 lines; of the wings 18 lines.

Celebes. In Mr. Saunders' collection.

Hampson, G. F. (1900). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 2: p. 486.

1035. Miltochrista scripta.

Barsine scripta, Wlk. xxxi. 254 (1864); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 108;
Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 306.

Hypocrita meander, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1879, p. 88, pl. 7. f. 11; Kirby, Cat.
Het. p. 509.

Yellow; palpi at sides, and antennae, except towards base, tinged with fuscous;
frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, and mesothorax with black spots;
abdomen of male blackish at extremity below. Fore wing with two black points at
base and one subbasal; a subbasal line very acutely angled outwards in cell and
on vein 1 and inwards below the cell; an antemedial line excurved below costa,
then oblique; a medial line incurved in cell and angled inwards in submedian
fold; the postmedial line arising from close to medial line, strongly excurved
from below costa to vein 4, then incurved, a series of streaks on the veins
beyond it, forked on veins 7, 8, and those on veins 6 and 4 longer; the costa
beyond the postmedial line and the cilia black. Hind wing with fine dark
terminal line towards apex.

Hab. Celebes, Minahassa, 1 male, Makassar (Wallace), 1 male type in Mus. Oxon.,
type female meander in Coll. Snellen. Exp. 38 millim.

Draudt, M. (1914). Miltochrista. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 10, The Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 138 (German
edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 10: 138).

M. scripta Wkr. (= meander Snell.). The yellow forewing exhibits black basal
dots, then near the base a transverse line being doubly sharply angled outside;
the anterior transverse line is rather oblique; the median line projects towards
the base in the cell and on the submedian fold; the posterior transverse line
rises at the costal margin near the latter and then forms a large bow round the
cell-end: behind it are black vein-streaks not reaching, however, as far as the
border. 38 mm. -- From Celebes.