196 ZYGiENlDjE AND BOMBYCID^ 



B0MBYCID5;. 

 COCHLIDIINJ;. 

 Genus LITHACODES. Packard. 



" Body slenderer than usual. Head large, vertex nearly continuous 

 with the thorax. Front long quadrate. Antennae long simple, fili* 

 form. Palpi very long, curved upwards in front of the clypeus, 

 reaching above the vertex, the third joint long, acute. Fore wings long 

 and narrow, more regularly oblong than in any of the other genera ; 

 costa hardly convex, outer margin nearly straight, suddenly rounded 

 at the internal angle ; inner edge very full at the base, ist and 2nd 

 subcostals short ; upper branch of the 3rd subcostal long, so that the 

 apical interspace is much longer and narrower than in Liviacodes^ 

 Apex of the secondaries rounded, outer margin full and rounded. 

 Spines of the hind tibiae large and stout. Genital armor much longer 

 than in Lmacodes. This genus reminds us strongly of Hubner's genus 

 Lithacodia!' 



Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, vol. 3, p. 345. (1864.) 



The species of this genus are small brown moths, and have a wide 

 geographical range in America. The two species found in the United 

 States may be separated thus : 



Anterior wings with (?«^ transverse fascia, - - L.fasciola. 



Anterior wings with two transverse fasciae, - - Z. redilinea. 



LITHACODES RECTILINEA. d*!- «. Sg- 13, ? .) 



Lmacodes {liihacodes) rectilinea, G. & R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vol. 

 2, p. 188, pi. 2, fig. 61 6*. (1868.) 



^ , $ . — " Ocherous. Basal half of the primaries evenly and en- 

 tirely ocherous brown. A median, nearly straight and even trans- 

 verse dark wood-brown line, edged within by a whitish shade. This 

 is the prominent inner margin of the usual inverse Y-shaped mark. 

 A corresponding line runs from the costa before the apex outwardly, 

 joining the external margin a little below the middle. The ocherous 



*G. Si R.'s figure is incorrectly quoted on p. 188, (loc. cit.) as fig. 62. 



