ILLICE. 677 



beyond lower angle of cell connected with the costa by a more or 

 less complete series of points. Hind wing dull yellowish., the costal 

 and apical areas more or less broadly suffused with grey. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Los Angeles. Exp. 17-19 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from tj'pe 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



787. Illice faustinula. 



Larva. Williams, Ent. News Philad. xvi. p. 257 (1905). 



Head green blotched with black ; body blackish ; dorsal line 

 creamy pink edged by a grey band blotched with black, broader on 

 the four anterior and two terminal somites, the band somewhat 

 crescentic on each somite ; a subdorsal black band much interrupted 

 by grey; a lateral grey hand and sublateral very irregular black 

 hand ; legs and ventral surface pale grey; a broad purplish ventral 

 line and purplish spots on base of prolegs ; stigmata grey ; warts 

 lemon -yellow hearing long hairs, those above the lateral line blackish, 

 those below pale grey with black bands. Food-plants, Lichens. 



Cocoon of tine silk mixed with hairs. 



I. nexa was raised from similar larvae and probably from the 

 same batch of eggs, and is probably a variety of faustinula. 



789. Illice citrina, insert : — 



Illice citrina, intacta, Eotlis. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 199 (1913). 



Hind wing of male with the black on termen extending to 

 vein 1. 



Peru, Carahava, It. Huacamayo (Ockenden), type f cS in Coll. 

 Rothschild. 



*789a. Illice tessellata. (Plate XXXY. fig. 35.) 

 Illice tessellata, Dogn. Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg\ xix. p. 127 (1912). 



$ . Head and thorax yellowish white, the vertex of head with 

 brown patch, the tegulae and patagia edged with brown ; palpi 

 yellow; pectus yellow and brown; legs yellow, the tibiae and tarsi 

 banded with brown ; abdomen yellow. Fore wing silvery white 

 with a golden gloss ; the base brown except on inner area ; the 

 costal edge brown to the curved brown antemedial band, which is 

 connected by a streak on median nervure with a brown postmedial 

 band expanding at middle and enclosing a while spot beyond lower 

 angle of cell ; the terminal part of costa brown ; a brown streak in 

 discal fold from the postmedial band to termen ; cilia brown. 

 Hind wing yellow, the apical area brown, broad at costa, narrowing 

 to a point at vein 1. Underside of fore wing with the patches of 

 basal half yellow, the terminal half brown with a whitish subapical 

 patch. 



ll«h. Colombia, Rio Dagua, Ximines (Fassl), type f $ in 

 Coll. Dognin. Exp. 16 millim. 



