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5781. Lithacodia atrinotata, n. sp. (I'l ite CLXIV. fig. 15.) 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale olive mixed with 



rufous and black; palpi black, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd 

 joints white; irons with lateral black bars; tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with blackish. Fore wing pale olive-green strtfused in parts with 

 reddish brown especially on medial and postmedial areas; a strong 

 bia.k subbasal bar defined at sides by white from costa 

 median fold, with a black mark below it on inner margin ; a 

 Blightly sinuous rather diffused blackish erect antemedial line; 

 orbicular represented by a small black spot; reniform a very 

 ill-defined whitish mark with some blackish stria; on its inner 

 edge; an indistinct interrupted slightly sinuous blackish medial 

 line; postmedial line with black point at costa, then slight, 

 whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, below vein (i rather 

 diffused dark brown, incurved below vein 4; subteiminal line 

 almost obsolete towards costa, below vein 5 strong, white, incurved 

 below vein .'i, a strong black fascia from it to ternien below vein 4, 

 its inner extremity rather bifid ; a terminal series of slight blackish 

 lunules faintly defined by whitish on inner side and a small 

 triangular black spot below the black fascia; cilia pale green 

 mixed with black-brown towards apex and at middle. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with reddish brown, the apex with dark brown ; 

 traces of a curved postmedial line ; a terminal series of dark striae 

 with white poiuts between them; cilia whitish mixed with 

 brown and with brown line at middle ; the underside white 

 irrorated with red and a lew dark scales, the costal and terminal 



is suffused with red, a black discoidal spot and curved minutely 

 waved reddish postmedial line. 



Hub. Ukazil, liio Janeiro ( Wilson), 1 £ type. Exp. 22 

 millim. 



5782. Lithacodia crotopha. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 16.) 

 Erastria crotopha, Swinb. A. M. N. II (7) xvi. p. 620 (19 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with fiery red and bla 

 palpi rufous and blackish tipped with white: tibia' and ' 

 blackish ringed with white; abdomen rufous mixed with t 

 some whitish at base, the crests blackish. Fore w Iden 



green irrorated with some black and white scales, the costal 

 suit used with rufous; subbasal line represented b. 

 from costa; some rufous above base ol inner margin ; ant< 

 line black slightly defined on inner side by white and wil 

 rufous and black suffusion before it from costa to b. low 

 minutely dentate, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform and orbicular 

 absent ; reniform with faint whitish annulus and point in 



lower part, narrow and constricted at middle; a diffused ru 

 medial band with sinuous ; postmedial line black I by 



white on outer side, bent outv 



