538 noctuid^: 



lunules •, cilia black and white on npical half, mostly white towards 

 tornus. Hind wing white suffused with brown ; cilia white with 

 a fuscous Hue through them : the underside ochreous white irro- 

 rated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, curved minutely waved 

 postmedial line, and terminal series of small black lunules. 



Hah. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



5805. Lithacodia larentiformis. (Hate CLXV. fig. 1.) 



Erastria cidarioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 142 ( 1882), nee id. p. 110, pi. ir. 

 f. 9. 



Erastria larentiformis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 301 (1894). 



2 ■ Head and thorax blackish mixed with red-brown and grey ; 

 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, 

 the crests blackish. Fore wing black-brown mixed with rufous 

 and grey, the postmedial area white from vein 6 to inner margin ; 

 antemedial line black defined on inner side by ochreous below c 

 and cell and by white from submedian fold to inner margin, 

 waved ; orbicular and reniform with faint grey annuli defined by 

 black, the former round, the latter somewhat constricted at 

 middle ; an indistinct sinuous black line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line double, black filled in with ochreous 

 towards costa and with white below vein 6, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6 where it is angled outwards, slightly angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3, then incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line white defined on inner side by black towards costa 

 and with a short black streak before it below vein 4, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle; terminal area brown, blackish at apex: a 

 terminal series of black striae ; cilia fuscous with a white line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish almost wholly suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; a terminal series of black striae slightly defined by 

 white on inner side ; cilia whitish with a series of fuscous points at 

 tips ; the underside white irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area 

 faintly tinged with purplish pink, a black discoidal spot and 

 minutely waved excurved postmedial line slightlv angled at discal 

 fold. 



Hub. Sikhim (Lidderdule, Atkinson), 3 o type. Exp. 30 millim. 



*5806. Lithacodia glaucopis. (Plate CLXV. fig. 2.) 

 Erastria glaucopis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 302 (1894). 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous in front ; 

 fore tibiae and tarsi brownish, the latter ringed with white : abdomen 

 ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-white tinged 

 in parts with ochreous. the costal area suffused with black-brown 

 narrowing to apex, the medial area suffused with black-brown ; an 

 indistinct waved dark antemedial line ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 represented by a diffused blackish patch, the reniform by a rounded 



