392 NOCTUID.K. 



black, a medial blac-k bar from costi, the subtenuiual baud 

 indistinctly double. 



Ab. 1. gracilis. Hind wing whiter, the inner half suifused with 

 blackish between the medial and siibterminal bands. 



$ . Abdomen with the dorsal area black, the crests black at base, 

 white at tips, the yelknv at sides endmg at '4\iX segment, then the 

 sides black. Hind wing with fuscous suffusion in submediiin 

 interspace except at base and tenuen, the bands broa^l and distinct. 



Hah. Mexico, 1 d" type, Coatepec {Brooks), Id, Guerrero, 

 Amula (//. II. Siiiifh), 1 5, Godman-Salvin Coll., Cuernavaca, 

 Guadalajara; ? Colombia. Exp. d, -i2-4S, $, 68 millim. 

 Types t hii-aria and gracilis in Mus. Oxen, the locaUty " India " 

 for the latter is an error. 



8209. Lichnoptera albidiscata. (Plate CCXXXV. 



ligs. 11 d, 12 $.) 



Tanthea alhidiscata, Dogii. Ilet. Noiiv. Am. Siid, vi. p. 14 (1912). 



6 . Head and thorax white tuiged with yellow ; antennai black 

 with a black spot l)et\veen their bases ; palpi black, the extremities 

 t)f 1st and 2nd joints white ; teguhe with some black at base and 

 black band near tips ; patagia with three oblique black bands ; pro-, 

 nieso-, and metathorax with paired black spots ; pectus with brown 

 mixed ; legs banded bkck and white ; abdomen black-brown with 

 s;)me whitish at base, the anal tuft white with a bkck spot, the 

 ventral surface white with small brown spots on medial segments. 

 Fore wing white thickly in-orated with red-brown, the medial area 

 more suffused with red-brown except in submedian interspace ; 

 a small black spot at base of costa ; a subbasal white sti'iga 

 from costi defined at sides In' blackish and small black spot below 

 the cell ; antemedial line blacki.sh defined on hmer side b}' Avhite, 

 waved, some blackish before and beyond it at costa ; orbicular a 

 small black annulus with white centre ; reniform a white lunule 

 obscurely defined by brown ; a waved blackish medial line ; the 

 terminal half of costa with alternating black and white marks ; 

 ]>ostn>edial line blackish, waved, incurved below vein 4; subterminal 

 line whitish, delhied on inner side by dentate black marks, large 

 al>o\e and below veins 6 and 2, and on outer side by a very sliglit 

 led-brown shade, obli((ue ; a terminal series of triangular black 

 s))ots ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing cupreous 

 brown, tlie inner area darker, a faint dark subterminal shade with 

 the area beyond it paler except towards tornus ; cilia chequered 

 black and white e.\ce])t at torinis. Underside of fore wing with the 

 basal half suffused with brown, a brown postmedial shade, excurved 

 below costa. and incurved below vein 4, some dentate subterminal 

 marks above middle and towards tornus ; hind wing with the costal 

 and terminal areas paler, a blackish bar from middle of costa and 

 cur\cd ]>ostmedial and subterminal shades from costa to vein 2. 



