LICHXOPTERA. 391 



vein 2 to tornus. Underside of fore wing with small antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial black spots on eosta ; hind wing wdth black 

 discoidal spot and medial and suljterminal points on costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black lines interrupted and without 

 fuscous suffusion on medial and postmedial areas. — Mexico. 



5 . Fore wing with the black markings stronger ; hind wing with 

 the oblique black bar to tornus strong ; terminal series of slight 

 ])lack sti-ijB. 



I£ab. Mexico, Cuernavaca, Orizaba, in Coll. Kothschild ; 

 (lUATEMALA (iSfidler), 1 d , Guatemala City {Bodn't/itez), 1 J , 1 § , 

 Quiche Mts. (Champion), 1 $; Costa lircA (Vcni Patten), 1 c? , 

 1 $, Candelaria Mts. {Underwood), 1 d" , 1 $ type, Grodman- 

 Salvin Coll., San Jose, Jvian Vinas, Sitio, Asahar de Cartago ; 

 ? Cuba, Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 6 44, $ 64-76 millim. 



820S. Lichnoptera cavillator. (Platt> CCXXXV. figs. 9 c? , 10 $ .) 



Diphtera cavillator, Wlk. ix. 37 (1856), cJ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 



i. p. 2o'J. 

 Diphtera bivaria, Wlk. ix. 39 (185G), $. 



Noma yracilis, 8vviul). Cat. Het. Mas, Oxou. ii. p. 101, pi. iii. f. 1 (1900). 

 Lictmopteru fetina, Druce, Uiul. Ceuti'.-Aui., Het. ii. p. 471 (part.). 



6 . Head and thorax cream}' white ; antennae blackish and witli 

 a black s])ot between their bases ; palpi black above ; teguluj with, 

 medial black bars ; patagia with four black spots ; thorax with live 

 pairs of black spots ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 white, the sides oi-ange-yellow except towards extremity, dorsal and 

 sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing creamy white ; a semi- 

 circular black mark at base of costa, a small black spot at base of 

 cell and subbasal spot below the cell ; small black spots in the cell 

 and above vein 1 and inner margin before the antemedial black line, 

 Avhich forms a semicircular mark at costa and is double and waved 

 below the cell ; orbicular represented by small black annuli in and 

 below the cell, some fuscous suft'usion in and below it ; reniform 

 more or less incompletely defined by black, angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; medial line black, forming a semicircular mark at 

 costa, obliquely incurved to the I'eniform, then oblique and waved, 

 some fuscous irroration before it between submedian fold and 

 vein 1 ; postmedial line represented by a double series of small 

 black spots on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 5, some slight dark lunules before it and some 

 fuscous in the interspaces between and beyond the spots, a black 

 point beyond it on cosfci ; subterminal line black, incurved below 

 costa, excurved at vein 7, then waved, an incurved black mark from 

 costa before apex ; the extremities of the veins streaked with black, 

 connected l)y a line below vein 5 ; a terminal series of black striit; ; 

 cilia ehe()uered black and white. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 fuscous black except the termen ; diffused dark medial and sub- 

 ti'rminal lines ; a black terminal line ; cilia chequered black and 

 white ; the underside with the costal area whit", the costal ed^-e 



