LJTHACODI \. 



series ot dark striae slightly defined on inner side Hind 



wing greyish wholly suffused with red- brown; at in.,1 



line; cilia paler; the underside whitish I irrorati I 



brown, a dark discoidal spot ; indistinct curved [ial line 



diffused subterminal line. 



llah. U.S.A., Alabama. 1 $ , Georgia. Exp. 22 inilliin. 



5829. Lithacodia griseomixta. 



Eras . Hmpsn. Monograph of Christmas I. p 68 



f. 5(1900). 



$. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown; abdomen 

 whitish dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated with brow n. 

 Fore wing grey-white irrorated and on postmedial area suffused with 

 reddish brown ; subbasal line brown, oblique to median nervure 

 where it is angled and ending at submedian fold; antcmedial line 

 brown defined on inner side by white, excurved in cell and sub- 

 median interspace and angled inwards on median nervure and 

 vein 1; clavif'orm and orbicular absent; reniform rep; | by 



dark points at angles of cell; postmedial line white with a dark 



ire it from costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and minutely dentate to inner margin at antemedial line; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by fuscous brown, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, crossed by slight dark 

 towards apex and at middle; cilia chequered brown and wi 

 Hind wing cupreous brown: the base whitish; cilia white mixed 

 with brown; the underside with the costal area white irrou 

 with brown. 



Halt. Chjristmas I. {Andrews), 1 $ type. K<-j>. \i'2 millim. 



*5S30. Lithacodia merta. (Plate CI. XV. fig. L6.) 

 Palindia merta, Schaus, A. M. N. II. (7) riii. p. 38 l 



2- Head and tegulae dark brown mixed with Borneo 

 thorax ochreous white tinged with red-brown; p 



dark brown, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen with tl 

 half ochreous white tinged with rufous, the terminal b 

 brown with slight whitish segmental lines, the 

 ochreous white. Fore wing with the basal half i te white 



d with rufous and with a large black-brown patch on 1 

 al area extending to submedian fold, t he terminal 

 brown: Bubbasal line black, curved, fron 

 antemedial line indistinctly double, bl ickish, irn 

 lines rather far apart : medial line blackish, bounding th 

 interrupted by short ochreous white streaks at subcostal and 

 nervures; reniform incompletely defined by bl 

 middle: postmedial line indistinct!} double, bent out* 



