394 ^*ooTUID.E. 



8211. Lichnoptera illudens. (Plate CCXXXV. figs. 14 c? , 15 $ .) 



Li2)literaiUiideoiR,^\\.\x. 37 (1856); Druce, Biol. Oenti-.-Am., Het. ii- 



p. 471 ; Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 99. 

 Fanthea pythion, Druce, Biol. Centi-.-Am., Het. i. p. 259, pi. 26. f. 6 (1889). 



S . Head and thorax white ; antennte black except at base and 

 with a black bar between their bases ; palpi with black patches 

 on 1st and 2nd joints and the 3rd joint black ; tegulse with black 

 bars at middle ; patagia with black spots at base and middle and 

 two oblique bars towards tips ; dorsum of thorax with f om' pairs of 

 black spots ; tibise and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white 

 dorsally tinged with brown, a dorsal series of blackish spots and 

 sublateral series of smaU spots. Fore wing white, in parts irrorated 

 and suffused with brown ; a small black spot near base of costa, a 

 curved subbasal striga from costa and small spot below the cell ; 

 some blackish suffusion on costa before the double waved black- 

 brown antemedial line, the inner line interrupted in submedian 

 interspace ; orbicular a small black-brown annulus ; reniform 

 defined by black-brown except above, narrow, irregular, confluent 

 with a minute white spot defined by black-brown on its inner edge ; 

 medial line black-brown, waved, oblique to lower angle of cell, then 

 inwardly oblique, some patches of brown suffusion before it ; post- 

 medial line double, dark brown with two black spots at costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and dentate, some brown 

 suffusion before and beyond it ; subterminal line black-brown, 

 crenulate, oblique ; a dentate brown shade before termen ; a 

 terminal series of small blackish lunules defined by white ; cilia 

 chequered blackish and white. Hind wing white with a faint 

 brownish tinge except at termen ; the underside with slight medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal blackish marks on costa. 



$ . Thorax with the black marks slight and obsolescent ; fore 

 wing irrorated and striated with brown, all the markings indistinct 

 and broken up, the medial and subterminal lines the most distinct, 

 the reniform a white lunule with brown suffusion before it. 



Hab. U.S.A., Florida ; Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 $ ; 

 Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 3 c? , 1 $ type pt/thion, Grodman- 

 Salvin ColL, Cana Mines {Tylecofe), 1 6; Vej^^ezuela, 2 $ type, 

 Merida. Exp. 6 48, $ 56-70 millim. 



8212. Lichnoptera gulo. (Plate CCXXXV. figs. 16 c? , 17 $ .) 



Lichno2Jtera gulo, Herr.-SchiifF. Aussereur. Schaiett. f. 529 (1850); Kirby, 

 Cat. Lep. Het. p. 213. 



S . Head and thorax sulphur-yellow ; antennae dark brown with 

 a black bar between their bases ; palpi black except in front and at 

 extremity of 2nd joint ; frons black at sides ; tegulse black at base 

 and with black medial band ; patagia with four black spots and the 

 shoulders with black spots ; thorax with four pairs of black spots ; 

 tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen black-brown, the 



