SOi NOCTUIUJE. 



8:211. Lichuoptera illudens. (Plate CCXXXV. figs. 14 c? , 15 $ .) 



Diphfcra illndens, W\k. \x. 37 (1856); Druce, Biol. Ceiitr.-Am., Het. ii- 



p. 471 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 99. 

 I'antliea pytkion, Druce, J3iol. Centr.-Aui., Het. i. p. 259, pi. 26. f. 6 (1889). 



S . Head and thorax white ; anteniije black except at base and 

 with a black bar between their bases ; palpi with black patches 

 on 1st and 2nd joints and the 3rd joint black ; teguliB witli black 

 bars at middle ; patagia with black spots at base and middle and 

 two oblique bars towards tips ; dorsum of thorax with fom- pairs of 

 black six)ts ; tibiiB and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white 

 dorsally tinged with brown, a dorsal series of blackish six)ts and 

 sublateral series of small spots. Fore wing white, in parts irrorated 

 and suffused with brown ; a small black spot near base of eosta, a 

 curved subbasal striga from costa and small spot below the cell ; 

 some blackish suffusion on costa before the double waved black- 

 brown antemedial line, the inner line interrupted in submedian 

 interspace ; orbicular a small black-broA\'n annidus ; reniform 

 defined by black-brown except above, narrow, irregular, confluent 

 with a minute white spot defined by black-brown on its inner edge ; 

 medial line black-brown, waved, oblique to lower angle of ceU, then 

 inwardly oblique, some patches of brown suffusion before it ; post- 

 medial line double, dark brown with two black spots at costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and dentate, some brown 

 suffusion before and beyond it ; subterminal line black-brown, 

 ci-enulate, obliq\ie ; a dentate brown shade before termen ; a 

 terminal series of small blackish lunules defined by white ; cilia 

 chequered blackish and white. Plind wing white with a faint 

 brownish tinge except at termen ; the underside with slight medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal blackish marks on costa. 



$ . Thorax with the black marks slight and obsolescent ; fore 

 wing UTorated and sti-iated with brown, all the markings indistinct 

 and broken up, the medial and subterminal lines the most distinct, 

 the reniform a white lunule with brown suffusion before it. 



Rah. U.S.A., Florida; Mexico, Jalapa {TntjiUo), 1 ?; 

 Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 3 d , 1 $ type pi/fJi/on, Godman- 

 S.dvin Coll., Cana Mines (Ti/h-cofe), 1 d; Ve-Ni:zlela, 2 $ type, 

 Mcrida. J^.rjj. d -48, $ 56-70 millim. 



8212. Lichnoptera gulo. (Plate CCXXXV. figs. 16 c? , 17 $ .) 



Lichnoiitera gulo, Hen-.-8cliiiff. Aussercur. Scliiiiett. f. 529 (1850); Kirby, 

 Cat Lep. Het. p. 213. 



(5 . Head and thorax sul])hur-yellow ; antenn;e dark brown Avith 

 a l)lack bar between their bases ; palpi black except in front and at 

 extremity of 2nd joint; irons black at sides ; tegulae black at base 

 and with black medial band ; patagia with four black sjx)ts and the 

 shoiddere with black spots; thorax with four jiairs of black spots ; 

 tibiai and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen black-bi-own, the 



