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6 l . Antenna' of male with longer branches, metathoracic 



crest rulbua brunneicrista. 



I. Fore wing with the antemedial line represented by a 

 striga from costa and long teeth in snbmedian fold 

 and above inner margin indislincta. 



:'>S21. Lithomcea rectilinea. 



tua rectilinea, Esp. Sclimelt. iv. p. ."-7i». pi. 127. f. 1 (1788); Hiibn. 

 Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 248; Dup. Lep. Pr. vii. p. 231, pi. 114. f. 6; 

 Frr. Beitr. pi. 4. f. 1 : Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Eaust. ii. p. 179; Dyar, 

 Cut. Lep. N. Am. p. 121 ; SJlaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. 



Head and thorax while tinged with rufous ; frons with black 

 liar; fcegulae with strong black medial line; patagia chocolate-red 

 with black line near upper edge which is pure white ; lnetathorax 

 chocolate-red ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen red- 

 brown, pale at base, the medial crests blackish. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with red-brown, the medial area red- brown with some 

 white irroration, especially beyond the cell and on inner area, 

 the terminal area red-brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by slight brown striae from costa and 

 cell ; the inner basal area suffused with red-brown with a diffused 

 black fascia in base of submedian told and a streak above iuner 

 margin before the antemedial line, which is black defined by white 

 on inner side, oblique and slightly sinuous from costa to submedian 

 fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin, a strong black fascia in submedian fold from it to post- 

 medial line; claviform very narrow, denned by black and obscured 



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Fig. 41. — Lithomcea rectilinea, c, . 



by the black fascia ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, 

 the former elongate elliptical with its outer edge indented, the 

 latter irrorated with white ; a slight dark medial shade from costa ; 

 postmedial line blackish defined by white on outer side and with 

 white patch beyond it in submedian interspace, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, oblique to 

 vein 2, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line represented by white strice on dentate black marks 

 from costa to vein 4 and angled outwards at vein 7, then by a 

 white line angled outwards to termen on veins 4, 3, with a dentate 

 black mark between them, then oblique and angled inwards in 

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