500 NOCTTTIDiE. 



6 1 . Fore wing with the basal area not pale with 

 oblique outer edge and contrasting with the 

 postiuedial area. 

 a%. Fore wing with white band before the terminal 



line from below apex to vein 4 marginalis. 



b 2 . Fore wing without white band before the ter- 

 minal line from below apes to vein 4. 

 a 3 . Fore wing with triangular white palch on 

 postmedial part of costa. 



a 4 . Fore wing with the basal area yellow flavofimbria. 



b 4 . Fore wing with the basal area black-brown . Melaleuca. 

 b s . Fore wing without triangular white patch on 

 postmedial part of costa. 

 a 4 . Fore wing with the reniform white and 

 connected with some white marks on 



costa phya. 



b 4 . Fore wing with the reniform not white. 

 u'\ Hind wing not yellow more or less suf- 

 fused with red. 

 «'•. Fore wing not grey-green, with the 

 claviform and reniform filled in with 

 brown or red and the orbicular with 

 black. 

 a". Fore wing not white, suffused with 

 ochreous. 

 « 8 . Fore wing olive-green suffused 

 with brown and irrorated with 



black plumbitincta. 



frf. Fore wing whitish, the basal, 

 inner, and postmedial areas suf- 

 fused with fuscous varicolora. 



ftl. Fore wing white suffused with 



ochreous alhiJula. 



b 6 . Fore wing grey-green, the claviform 



and reniform filled in with brown or 



red, the orbicular with black. 



«". Fore wing with the claviform and 



reniform filled in with ferruginous 



brown parvimactila. 



b'i. Fore wing with the claviform and 



reniform filled in with bright red . concinnimacula, 

 fa. Hind wing yellow more or less suffused 

 with red. 

 a ,; . Fore wing with wedge-shaped white 



subbasal patch above vein 1 scapha. 



6°. Fore wing with curved white subbasal 



streak above vein 1 armitta. 



<■>'•. Fore wing without subbasal white 



mark above vein 1 metachrysa. 



5750. Lithacodia synochitis. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 29.) 



Erastria synochitis, Grote & Bob. Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. i. p. 357 (1868 

 Smith, Cat. Noct, N. Am. p. 310. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous brown, whiter behin 

 Avith a small dark spot on metathorax ; palpi and frons tinged wit 

 red ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen white tinged wit 

 olive and irrorated with fuscous, the crests black. Fore win 

 white, the costal and postmedial areas irrorated with purplis 





