LITHACODIA. ."I'.t 



costa to median nervure ; reniform Bilvery grey-whit.e slightly 

 defined by dark brown and with dark striga in centre, nan 

 postmedial line double, brown filled in with whitish towards co 

 bent outwards below coata, excurved to vein t, then bent inw 

 to lower edge of reniform and slightly waved to inner in >me 



whire points beyond it on costa; subterminal Line whi 1 1 1 y 



excurved below vein 7 and more Btrongly at middle, a dark patch 

 beyond it at discal fold; a terminal series of small triangular dark 

 brown spots. Hind wing whitish, the terminal half suffused with 

 cupreous brown; an indistinct dark discoidal lunule; cilia paler 

 with a whitish line at base; the underside whitish, the costal ana 

 and terminal area to vein L' irrorated with red-brown, a dark 

 brown discoidal lunule, waved postmedial line bent outwards below 

 COSta and inwards at vein '2, and a terminal series of brown lunules 

 defined on inner side by white from apex to vein 2. 



Hub. Dutch X. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 £ type. Exp. 22 

 niillim. 



*5823. Lithacodia valta. (Plato CLXV. fig. 12.) 



Eustrotia walia, Scliaus, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxx. p. 153 i L904). 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufons and mixed 

 with some dark brown, especially on thorax behind : palpi handed 

 with blackish; frons with lateral blackish bars; tarsi fuscous with 

 pale rings; abdomen ochreous whitish irrorated with brown, the 

 crests black. Fore wing bluish grey suffused in parts with rufous 

 and black; antemedial line grey defined on inner side by a slight 

 fuscous line and on outer by a black band, curved and minutely 

 waved, the black band ending at vein 1 in a wedge-shaped black 

 mark below the claviform, which is defined above and at extremity 

 by white produced as a point to postmedial line, with some bl 

 suffusion above it; orbicular white defined by black and with slij 

 rufous centre, round, a diffused oblique brow n liar from it to costa : 

 reniform with rufous centre and slight whitish annul us incom- 

 pletely defined by black, slightlj augled inwards on median nervure; 

 postmedial line double, black filled in with white, obsolescent 

 towards costa. bent outwards below COSta, slightly angled inw. 

 at discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold ;i1 "' N 

 slightly excurved at. vein 1. some whitish points beyond it 01 

 BUbterminal line white with oblique black bar beyond it from a; 

 defined on inner side by slight black streaks below COSta, with 

 wedge-shaped black mark before it above vein 6 and spot beloy it 

 and dentate black marks at middle, angled outwai 

 inwards in discal told, and outwards at veins t, 3; ■■< termina 

 of minute black lunules slightly defined by whitish on inn< 

 cilia brown at base, chequered blackish and white at tips. Hind 

 wing reddish brown ; a terminal series of blackish striae; cilia ; 

 rufous at base, white with blackish points at tip-: the un 



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