520 NOCTTJID^I. 



latter narrow above, conical below ; postmedial line double, filled 

 in with whitish towards costa and inner margin, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, traces of 

 white points beyond it on costa and a small spot before apex ; 

 subterminal line represented by a faint dark shade incurved in 

 submedian interspace. Hind wing cupreous red-brown ; the cilia 

 with a tine whitish line at base ; the underside whitish thickly 

 irrorated and suffused with red-brown, a slight dark discoidal 

 lunule. 



Hub. Guatemala, Vera Paz (Champion), 3 £ type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exp. 30 inillim. 



5777. Lithacodia belli cula. 



Lithacodia bellicula, Hubn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. p. 18. ff. 85, 86 (1818) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 309. 

 Hydrelia semichalcea, Wlk. xxxiii. 797 (1865). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with white, the last 

 with the crests on 3rd and 4th segments tipped with black. Fore 

 wing rufous mixed with grey, some bright rufous above end of cell 

 and below the cell before the postmedial line, the postmedial area 

 yellowish except towards costa ; antemedial line indistinct, rufous, 

 waved, erect ; orbicular with faint whitish annulus, round ; the 

 reniform represented by a whitish discoidal striga ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double filled in with white, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, strongly excurved to vein 4, then angled inwards in 

 submedian fold and oblique to inner margin, some whitish points 





F'.g. 150. — Lithacodia bellicula, 3. 



beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellowish, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine blackish terminal line ; cilia 

 grey with a dark line through them. Hind wing cupreous brown, 

 the cilia grey with a brown line through them ; the underside grey 

 irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged with cupreous red, a 

 black discoid? poiut and reddish postmedial line angled outwards 

 beyond the cell. 



Hab. Canada, Renfrew Co., 1 3 , Xova Scotia (Redman), 1 3 > 

 type semichalcea; U.S.A., Eastern and Central States to Florida 

 and Texas, Massachusetts Boston, 1 J, 1 $, Beverley (Burg), 

 1 <? , New York (Packard), 6 rf , 2 $ , Colorado. Exp. 20-24 

 millim. 



