554 nocttjtdje. 



costa, then minutely dentate and with slight whitish mark on it at 

 discal fold, incurved below vein 4 to below end of cell, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by 

 slight black stria? faintly denned on outer side by grey, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and incurved at discal fold ; a terminal 

 series of minute white points. Hind wing dark brown with a 

 cupreous tinge; traces of a waved whitish line just before termeu 

 with a series of white points ou it : the underside slightly irrorated 

 with white and with the inner area whitish, a brownish discoidal 

 bar, and diffused postmedial line incurved below vein 3. Palpi with 

 the 3rd joint long. 



II ah. Ijrazil, Uio Janeiro, type f $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. Erp. 30 

 millim. 



5831. Lithacodia holophaea, n. sp. (Plate CLXV. fig. 17.) 



cf . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown slightly mixed w r ith 

 greyish, the last with the crests black; pectus and legs paler, the 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings. Eore wing dark brown with a 

 cupreous gloss, irrorated with a few silvery blue scales and with 

 some red scales in submediau fold ; subbasai line represented by a 

 slight black striga from costa and streak below median nervure ; 

 antemedial line very indistinct, double, erect, sinuous ; claviform 

 represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reni- 

 form indistinctly defined by black, the former round, a blackish 

 patch between them extending to costa; an indistinct oblique 

 sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, filled in with grey, bent outwards below 

 costa, then very minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved 

 and excurved in submediau fold, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, dark, minutely waved; a terminal 

 series of slight black striae ; cilia pale at base, dark at tips. Hind 

 wing pale suffused with cupreous brown ; cilia whitish with a dark 

 line through them ; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated 

 with brown, an indistinct discoidal lunule and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Assam. Nagas {Doherty), 1 <$ type. Exp. 24 millim. 



5832. Lithacodia mirella. (Plate CLXV. fig. 18.) 



Thalpochares mirella, Schaus. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxx. p. 162 (1904). 

 Thalpochares hippotamada, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 315 (part.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown with a greyish tinge; 

 pectus and legs with some white scales, ventral surface of abdomen 

 pure white. Fore wing fuscous brown with a cupreous gloss ; an 

 indistinct dark postmedial line faintly defined on outer side by 

 whitish, oblique from costa to vein 6 and slightly incurved below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa : traces of a pale sub- 



