LITHACODIA. • !\. 



terminal line with a small whib ; cilia with some 



pale points at base towards apex and a white p tweon ■■■ 



'•> and 2. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown; the ui 

 irrorated with whitish. 



Abdomen of male with large lateral spiracles at base cov. i 

 valves. 



Uab. Mexico, typef rf in U.S. Nat. Mus.; Guatemala, - 

 Isidro {Champion), 1 £ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus STENOCODIA, nov. 



Type, S. purpura 'scens. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 



\ ol head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd i lerate; frons Bmuotb ; eyes 



round; antennae of male with fascii ong cilia; thorax clothed 



almost entirely with scales, the protboras without crest, the metathorax with 

 spreading crest ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest 

 at bas< only. Fore wing hmjjr and narrow, tin- apex rounded, the termen 

 evenlj curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7 ; LI from cell. Eind 

 wiih veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 almost fully developed from well 

 angle; 0, 7 from upj er angle, . v anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5&VA. Stenocodia purpurascens, n. 



d . Head and thorax purplish red mixed with whitish; palpi 

 with .some blackish at sides; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with red and irrorated with blackish. 1 i 

 w n. g purplish red mixed with yellowish ; antemedial line indistii 

 very oblicjue from cost a to diseal fold where it is angled acut 

 outwards, then very oblique inwardly to inner margin and slightly 

 sinuous; postmedial line double filled in with pinkish, the outer 



Fig. 151. — S 



line indistinct, beni outwards below costa, incurved 

 oblique and minutely \\ a ved. some grej ish points bej end it o 

 a terminal series of dark stria* defined by a v. 

 cilia red with dark brown tips. Hind wing whitisi 

 fuscous, the terminal area pale purplish ; a 

 imiistinet curved postmedial line, and terminal* 

 whitish at lish at tips ; the ai 



