LITHACODIA. 



•5803. Lithacodia benita. (Plate (I.XIV. fig. 31.) 

 Tarache benita, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. So ■. 160 > LS 



£ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed wit h black and a t 

 white scales ; palpi whitish in front ; tibiae ant) tarsi black ru 

 with white ; abdomen black-brown with slight whitish ntal 



rimrs. Fore wing black-brown mixed with some red and grey to 

 reni form and below it to postmedial line, then white to beyond 



medial line, the terminal area pale brown ; snbbasal line bit 



itly defined by white on inner side, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold in which there is a short ochreous streak before it; 

 antemedial line black defined by whitish on inner side, minutely 

 waved and inwardly oblique, slightly exeurved below costa and 

 submedian fold ; orbicular a minute ochreous spot defined by black ; 

 reniform white incompletely defined by black, rather concave to- 

 wards base j a diffused dentate black medial line, oblique from 



a to below reniform ; postmedial line with brown spot at costa, 

 oblique to vein (!, then double, the inner line black and waved, in- 

 curved below vein 5, some white points beyond it on est a ; sub- 

 terminal line white with some red suffusion before it below costa, 

 exeurved below vein 7 and at middle, with a black patch from it to 

 term en at discal fold ; a terminal series of small black luimles. 

 Hind wing dark brown, the cilia white at tips on inner half; the 

 underside paler brown with some whitish irroration in and beyond 

 cell, a small discoidal spot, indistinct postmedial line exeurved to 



i 5, then oblique, and a terminal series of dark spots with white 

 6pots before them except towards apex. 



I/ah. Brazil, Castro Parana (D. Jones), type t $ in U.S. Nit. 

 M .-. Exp. 2 1 millim. 



304. Lithacodia norinalis, n. sp. (Plate (I XIV. fig. 32.) 



$. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with reddish brown and 

 0U8; palpi black, whitish at base in front ; fore tibia? and I 

 banded black and white; abdomen grey- white irrorated within-own. 



wing purplish red mixed with grey and irrorated with b! 

 the inner area grey-white to submedian fold w:th BOD Qish 



below base of cell, the terminal area grey-white ■ 

 interrupted by a blackish streak below vein 1 ; a 

 sented by a slight black Btriga from costa : traces <<\ a Dte- 



medial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter elliptical ; an indistincl blackish medial shade; 

 postmedial line double, the outer line 



strongly bent outwards below costa. then sinuouf i to 



vein 4, then incurved, some slight whitish points beyond it oi 

 suhterminal line whitish, defined on inner Bide by illusion 



except on the white area where it is itwards 



at vein 7 and exeurved at middle ; a terminal f minute black 



