LITHOSIA EUSTIXIA. 305 



the costal and subcostal veins from a common stalk, the latter bifid 

 beyond the disk, which is closed by a faint vein. Median vein 

 3-branched, the two superior on a common stalk, which becomes 

 bifid opposite the fork of the subcostal. 



Head rather small, free, smooth ; without ocelli. Face mode- 

 rate, flat, smooth. Eyes moderate, prominent. Antennae simple, 

 setose in both sexes ? Palpi moderate, recurved, but little ex- 

 ceeding the clypeus, squamose ; the basal joint tumid, and about 

 equal to the middle joint, which is cylindric; the terminal joint 

 slender and nearly equal to the middle joint. Tongue slightly 

 more than one-half as long as the thorax beneath. 



Body moderately thick, rather less than the length of the hind 

 wings. Patagia small, nearly cylindrical. Abdomen beneath one- 

 half the length of the body. Legs rather stout ; fore tibia3 with a 

 short spur at the base ; hind tibia? with four moderate spurs. 



1. L. miniata Kirbij. Faun. Bor. Am. IV, 305, 1. Gnopria vittata Harris, 



Ins. Mass. 2d ed. 262. Atolmis? miniata Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., Nov. 1860, 543. 



Scarlet or yellow tinged with scarlet. Antenna? black. Palpi 

 tipped with black. Fore wings with three broad slate-colored or 

 lead-colored stripes, the first near the costa ; the third near inner 

 margin ; the second .short in the middle of the wing posteriorly. 

 Hind wings blackish slate-colored, scarlet or pinkish at the base. 

 Abdomen black with a broad -scarlet stripe beneath. 



CLEMENS. 



2. L. longipennia Walker, 510. 



Yellow. Palpi brownish towards the tips. Tibia? and tarsi 

 brownish. Fore wings long, narrow, conical at the tips, with a 

 very long narrow brown border which is slightly widened at the 

 tips, and does not extend further than the tips of the hind wings 

 towards the base behind. Hind wings with a brown fringe at the 

 tips. 



Mexico. 



WALKER. 



EUSTIXIA HiJBNEK. See p. 252. 

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