LTCliyOPTERA. — KLTI)XOT)ES. 399 



8218. Lichuoptera mcesta. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 13.) 



Lichni)j)fera moesla, Hen-.-Si-Laff. Aussereur. ScLniett. I'. 530 (1850) ; Kirbj', 

 Cat. Lep. Het. p. 213. 



2 . Head and thorax white ; antennae black with a black bar 

 between their bases ; palpi black, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd 

 jr.ints white ; tegulai black at base and Avith black patches at 

 middle ; patagia with black patches at base and middle and black 

 tips ; prothorax with black patch, metathorax with curved black 

 streaks ; pectus black ; tibiae and tarsi banded black and white ; 

 abdomen black irrorated with A\hite and with lateral yellow streaks 

 except towards extremity. Fore wing white ; a small black spot at 

 base of costa ; a em'ved black subbasal striga from costa connected 

 with a small spot on median nervure ; the antemedial area Avith inx 

 oblique black bar from costa and spots in cell and above vein 1 and 

 inner margin ; antemedial line stronger at costa, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa, incm'ved below submedian fold and excurved 

 above inner margin, the area between it and the medial line filled 

 in with purplish brown below submedian fold ; orbicular with round 

 black annulus ; reniform defined by black except above, its centre 

 with small elliptical black annulus ; medial line black, obsolescent 

 and pui']>lish brown at middle, slightly bent outwards in the cell, 

 incurved below vein 2 and excurved at vein 1, a small black sj^ot 

 beyond it on costa ; the area below end of cell suffused with 

 purple-brown ; postmedial line double, black, the inner line purple- 

 brown at middle and forming a small black patch below the cost;i, 

 the outer line forking at costa, obliquely excurved from below costa 

 to vein 6, then dentate, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, 

 sinuous below vein 2, the area between it and the subterminal line 

 suffused with purple-brown except towards costa and inner margin ; 

 subterminal line black, oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 6, 

 then waved ; a series of rather dentate black marks before tennen, 

 the mark beloAV apex lunulate ; cilia chequered black and Avhite. 

 Hind wing uniform black-brown. Underside black-brown ; fore 

 wing with soniC white marks on ]wstmedial part of costa and sub- 

 terminal and terminal series of white spots ; hind wing with sliglit 

 white discoidal spot and slight mark formed by white scales before 

 termen. 



S . Hind wing with the inner margin fringed with yellow haii*. 



Hah. Venezuel-V (Priffwifz), 1 ? , d in Coll." Rothschild. 

 Krj). 6 41, 2 oO-ei' millim. 



Genus ELYDNODES, nov. 



Type, E. varicgafa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; pnlpi u]itiirned, tlie 2nd joint reachins; to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, tlie 3rd sliort, thickly .scaled; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennic of male ciliated ; thorax ch)thed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the metal horax with small paired crests, tiie patagia with long 

 6])atulate scales at extremities ; tibias moderately fringed with hair; abdomeii 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex produced and falcate, the termen 

 excised to vein 4 where it is excurved, then oblique to tornus ; veins 3 anl 5 



