512 N0CIUIDJ5. 



with a slight fuscous line through them. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, 

 indistinct curved postmedial line, and fine black terminal 

 line; cilia white with a slight brown line through them; the 

 underside with the discoidal spot distinct, the postmedial line 

 minutely waved, a terminal scries of small black luuules. 

 Hub. U.S.A., Texas (Bel/rage), 1 J type. Exp. 24 millim. 



5769. Lithacodia concinnimacula. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 8.) 



(luen. Noct. ii. p. 238. pi. x. f. 10 (1852); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 310. 



Head and thorax blue-green mixed with white ; palpi, pectus, 

 and legs white and blackish, the tarsi black ringed with white; 

 abdomen whitish mixed with brown, the crests tipped with black. 

 Fore wing blue-green mixed with some white, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold, a black point before it ou costa ; ante- 

 medial line white, rather oblique, waved, with black marks before 

 and beyond it on costa and some red scales before it in cell; 

 claviform a round red spot with white annulus, separated from 

 antemedial line; orbicular and reniform round with white annuli, 

 the former with black centre and black bar above it from costa, 

 the latter with red centre ; a few red and black scales below end 

 of cell ; postmedial line white defined on inner side by a few 

 black scales on inner halt, bent outwards below costa, then slightly 

 dentate, incurved below vein 4, with alternating black and white 

 marks beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white with black and 

 reddish patch before and beyond it on costa, then defined on inner 

 side by slight dentate red marks with a few black scales on them, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules defined by white on inner side ; cilia grey-green with 

 slight white line at middle and some blackish scales at tips. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with brown : a dark terminal line ; cilia 

 white with a dark line near base; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal spot, indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of small black lunules. 



Hub. Canada, Nova Scotia (Redman), 3 £; U.S.A., Eastern 

 States and west to the Rocky Mts., Massachusetts, Beverley (Burg), 

 3 $, New York (Doubleday, Grote), 2 tf , 1 $ type, Pennsylvania, 

 1 $ . Exp. 24-2(3 millim. 



5770. Lithacodia scapha. 



Anthophila scapha, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 363, f. 236 (1891). 



d . Head and thorax deep purplish red ; palpi white in front at 

 base; pectus and tibia3 with some ochreous white, the tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen brown mixed with purplish red, the erest on 

 3rd segment deep purplish red. Pore wing brown mixed with some 

 grey and largely suffused with purplish red ; a golden copper streak 



