LXTHOIICEA. 



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b^. Antennte of male with longer branches, metathoracic 



crest rufovis brunncicrista. 



Fore wine; with the antemedial line rep-esented by a 

 striga from cos^a and long teeth in snbmedian fold 

 and above inner margin indistincta. 



3821. Lithomcea rectilinea. 



Nodua rectilinea, Esp. Schniett. iv. p. 379, pi. 127. f. 1 (1788); Hubn, 

 Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 248; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 231, pi. 114. f. 6; 

 Frr. Beitr. pi. 4. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 179; Dyar, 

 Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 121 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. 



Head and thorax while tinged with rufous ; frons with black 

 bar ; tegulae with strong black medial line ; patagia chocolate-red 

 with black line near upper edge which is pure white ; metathorax' 

 chocolate-red ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen red- 

 brown, pale at base, the medial crests blackish. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with red-brown^ the medial area red-brown with some 

 white irroration, especially beyond the cell and on inner area, 

 the terminal area red-brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by slight brown striae from costa and 

 cell ; the inner basal area suffused with red-brown with a diffused 

 black fascia in base of submedian fold and a streak above inner 

 margin before the antemedial line, which is black defined by white 

 on inner side, oblique and slightly sinuous from costa to submedian 

 fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin, a strong black fascia in submedian fold from it to post- 

 medial line ; claviform very narrow, defined by black and obscured 



Fig. il. —Li/komoea rectilinea, c?. 



by the black fascia ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, 

 the former elongate elliptical with its outer edge indented, the 

 latter irrorated with white ; a slight dark medial shade from costa ; 

 postmedial line blackish defi.ned by white on outer side and with 

 white patch beyond it in submedian interspace, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly angled inwards in diecal fold, oblique to 

 vein 2, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; 

 subterminal line represented by white striae on dentate black marks 

 from costa to vein 4 and angled outwards at vein 7, then by a 

 white line angled outwards to termen on veins 4, 3, with a dentate 

 black mark between them, then oblique and angled inwards in 



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