LITHACODIA. .~,_'7 



5788. Litliacodia musta. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 22.) 



stria musta, Grote & Rob. Trans. Enl 8 tc. i p. ' 

 Biol. Oentr.-Ara., Het. i. p. 311 ; Smith, Cat. N<x t. N. Am. p. 311. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey mixed with 

 red-brown and black; palpi blackish ; frons with lateral black b 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen with the crests black. 

 Fore wing olive-green irrorated with black, the outer half of medial 

 area partly suffused with rufous; subbasal line black, from c 

 to median nervure ; antemcdial line black defined on inner side by 

 whitish and rufous, erect, slightly sinuous; claviform with rui 

 and black centre and whitish annulus defined by black ; orbicular 

 with hlack centre and rufous annulus defined by black, small, 

 round; reniform with rufous centre and incomplete whitish annulus 

 defined by black, a black streak beyond it in discal fold ; an 

 oblique slightly waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double, black filled in with rufous, strongly 

 bent nut wards below costa, then very minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some white beyond it at costa and from 

 vein 4 to inner margin : subterminal line represented by slight 

 dentate white marks defined on inner side by dentate black ma 

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

 BtriaB ; cilia black mixed with grey and with black line at middle. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; a tine black terminal 

 line; cilia whitish and fuscous with a dark line near base ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with bW>wn, a dark discoidal spot and 

 minutely waved postmedial line. 



Ah. 1. Fore wing with the medial area almost wholly sufl'i 

 with black and purplish grey. — Costa Rica. 



Hab. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central State. W. Virgi 

 1 9. Kentucky {Sanborn), 1 5- Missouri; Costa Rica, R 5 

 (Rot/ers), '■$ tf , 3 9. Candelaria Mts. (Undi 

 Balvin Coll. Exp. 20-24 millim. 



*5789. Litliacodia cidarioides. 



Molama cidarioides. Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 110, pi. 4. f. 9 B 



Sloths [nd. ii. p. 302. 



Head and thorax purple-brown ; pectus and legs 



wing dark purple-brown, the basal area and I 



'•xcept at apex -olden yellow ; subbasal line repi sented ! ; 



black striga from costa; antemedial line doul ! in with 



yellow, erect, minutely waved ; orbicular with faint j 



round; reniform yellow with dark point- in upper and ! 



it middle : postmedial line double filled in w ith \ i Uom . 

 l'ciit outwards below costa, oblique to vein I. then bent i 

 and agaiu -lightly excurved : subterminal line n >me 



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