214 NOCTTTID.E. 



edge ; a fine brown terminal line : cilia brown with dark line 

 through them. Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with brown ; 

 a fine brown terminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous. Underside 

 ochreous wholly suffused with red-brown. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu (Grawshay), 1 S , 1 $ type. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Genus HOPLOLYTHRA, nov. 



Type, H. discistriga. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the second joint 

 reaching about, to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales, the 3rd 

 short ; frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges and small 

 central process, a corneous plate below it excised in front ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna? of male serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia somewhat 

 curled up at extremities ; fore tibife with slender spine at extremity on inner 

 side; mid and hind tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without, 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to towards middle 



4581. Hoplolythra discistriga. 



Lythrod.es discistriga, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 207 (1903). 



J . Head and thorax yellow mixed with rufous ; antenna? 

 rufous ; abdomen fulvous yellow, the ventral surface creamy white. 

 Fore wing creamy white with fine rufous streaks on the veins and 



Fig. 79. — Hoplolythra discistriga, $ . -J . 



in submedian interspace, the streaks expanding between end of cell 

 and termen ; cilia chequered creamy white and rufous. Hind wing 

 golden yellow. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Walters Sta., Arizona, Redington, 1 cJ . 

 E.vj). 28 millim. 



Genus LYTHRODES. 



Type. 



Lythrodes, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 206 (1903) radiata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, short and slender, the 

 2nd joint slightly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons with 

 corneous prominence with raised edge and flattened vertical plate at middle, 

 a curved corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male laminate 

 and almost simple; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibiae 



