LICH>'OPTEEA. 391 



vein 2 to torrnis. Underside of fore wing with small antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial black spots on costa ; hind wing with black 

 discoidal spot and medial and subterminal points on costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black lines interrupted and without 

 fuscous suffusion on medial and postmedial areas. — Mexico. 



$ . Fore wing with the black markings stronger ; hind wing with 

 the oblique black bar to tornus strong ; terminal series of slight 

 black sti'ise. 



Hah. Mexico, Cuernavaca, Orizaba, in Coll. Rothschild ; 

 Guatemala (Sadler), 1 (S , G-uatemala City {Rodriguez), 1 cJ , 1 $ , 

 Quiche Mts. {Champion), 1 $; Costa Eica {Van Fatten), 1 cf , 

 1 $, Candelaria Mts. {Underioood), 1 cJ , 1 $ type, Grodman- 

 S.ilvin Coll., San Jose, Juan Vinas, Sitio, Asahar de Cartago ; 

 ? Cuba, Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 6 44, $ 64-76 millim. 



8208. Lichnoptera cavillator. (Plate CCXXXV. figs. 9 d , 10 $ .) 



BipUera cavillator, Wlk. ix. 37 (1856), cj'; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 



i. p. 25y. 

 DiphUrw bivaria, Wlk. ix. 39 (185fi), $. 



Moma gracilis, Swinli. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 101, pi. iii. f. 1 (1900). 

 Lichnoptera j'elina, Di'uce, Biol. Ceutr.-Aiii., Het. ii. p. 471 (part.). 



S . Head and thorax creamy white ; antennae blackish and with 

 a black spot between their bases ; palpi black above ; tegulas with 

 medial black bars ; patagia with four black spots ; thorax with five 

 pairs of black spots ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 Avhite, the sides orange-yellow except towards extremity, dorsal and 

 sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing creamy white ; a semi- 

 circular black mark at base of costa, a small black spot at base of 

 cell and subbasal spot below the cell ; small black spots in the cell 

 and above vein 1 and inner margin before the antemedial black line, 

 which forms a semicircular mark at costa and is double and waved 

 below the cell ; orbicular represented by small black annuli in and 

 below the cell, some fuscous suffusion in and below it ; reniform 

 more or less incompletely defined by black, angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; medial line black, forming a semicircular mark at 

 costa, obliquely incurved to the reniform, then oblique and waved, 

 some fuscous irroration before it between submedian fold and 

 vein 1 ; postmedial line i-epresented by a double series of small 

 black spots on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 5, some slight dark lunides before it and some 

 fuscous in the interspaces between and beyond the spots, a black 

 point beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black, incurved below 

 costa, excurved at vein 7, then waved, an incurved black mark from 

 costa before apex ; the extremities of the veins streaked with black, 

 connected by a line below vein 5 ; a terminal series of black striae ; 

 cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 fuscous black except the termen ; diffused dark medial and sub- 

 terminal lines ; a black terminal line ; cilia chequered black and 

 white ; the underside with tlie costal area white, the costal edg^e 



