LITHACODIA. 521 



5778. Lithacodia cuprea. (Plate CLXIV. fig. I: 

 Galgula cuprea, Scliaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 119 (18! 



$ . Head brownish white, the antennae brown ringed with 

 white; thorax purplish red; palpi, pectus, and legs whitish m 

 with lnuwn; abdomen grey tinged with purplish and irrori 

 with brown. Fore wing purple, the terminal area cupreo 

 antemedial line olive-white with some deep red scales on it 

 slightly angled outwards on subcostal and median nervures and 

 inwards at vein 1 ; a dark discoidal striga with olive-white bar on 

 its inner side and white bar on its outt r, its extremities confluent 

 with the postmedial line which is similarly coloured and ai . 

 outwards beyond the cell, some deep red suffusion before it ; - 

 terminal line with whitish point at costa, then only defined by the 

 contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled inwards 

 at discal fold and incurved below vein 3 ; cilia cupreous red at 

 base, white at tips with brown patches at apex and between \ 

 4 and 2. Kind wing greyish brown, the cilia white with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brown, traces of a minutely waved postmedial line. 



J/nb. Brazil, 1 J, Castro Parana (D. Jones), 1 c? . Exp. 22 

 millim. 



5779. Lithacodia mella. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 14.) 



Bryoj)hila mella, Scliaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 224 1 894). 



8. Head and thorax white mixed with blackish and - 

 scarlet scales; palpi with the 1st and 2nd joints black ai 

 tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen white with diffused blackish 

 bands, the basal joint tipped with scarlet. Pore wing white 

 irrorated with grey-green and some black; subbasal line bli 

 defined by white on inner side, excurved to below cell, I 

 incurved, with patches of scarlet before it below com a and cell ; 

 antemedial line double at costa, black defined by white on outer 

 fiide, oblique and slightly waved from costa to below cell, then 

 angled inwards on vein 1, an oblique scarlet streak from it to 

 postmedial line in submedian fold; orbicular with black centre 

 white annulus defined at sides by scarlet ; the rcniform a bl 

 bar defined by white on inner side; postmedial line double 

 below costa ami towards inner margin, black tilled in with w 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved below v< in I 

 white points with black marks between them beyond il 

 Bubterminal line represented by a white band with - 



ts on it except below costa, closely approximated to the | 

 medial line below vein 6 and slightly excurved 1h low vein 7 

 middle; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined 

 by white on inner side. Hind win- white, ti, ind 



inner margin irrorated with black, a lisooidal bar and 



