LICHKOPTEEA. ELY D^'^OI>ES. 399 



8218. Lichnoptera mcesta. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 13.) 



Lichnopfera mcesta, Herr. -Scbaff. Aussereur. Schmett. i'. 530(1850) ; Kirbj', 

 Cat. Lep. Het. p. 213. 



$ . Head and thorax white ; antennae hlack with a hlack har 

 between their bases ; palpi hlack, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd 

 joints white ; tegnlse hlack at hase and with hlack patches at 

 middle ; patagia with hlack patches at hase and middle and hlack 

 tips ; prothorax with hlack patch, metathorax with curved hlack 

 streaks ; pectus hlack ; tihise and tarsi handed hlack and white ; 

 ahdomen hlack irrorated with white and with lateral yellow streaks 

 except toAvards extremity. Fore wing white ; a small hlack spot at 

 hase of costa ; a curved hlack suhhasal striga from eosta connected 

 with a small spot on median nervure ; the antemedial area with a n 

 ohlique hlack har from costa and spots in cell and ahove vein 1 and 

 inner margin ; antemedial line stronger at costa, slightly angled 

 outwards helow costa, incurved helow suhmedian fold and excurved 

 ahove inner margin, the area between it and the medial line filled 

 in with purplish brown below suhmedian fold; orbicular with round 

 black anntilus ; renif orm defined by black except above, its cent] e 

 with small elliptical black annulus ; medial line black, obsolescent 

 and purplish brown at middle, slightly bent outwards in the cell, 

 incurved below vein 2 and excurved at vein 1, a small black spot 

 beyond it on costa ; the area below end of cell suffused with 

 purple-brown ; postmedial line double, black, the inner line purple- 

 brown at middle and forming a small black patch below the costa, 

 the outer line forking at costa, obliquely excurved from below costa 

 to vein 6, then dentate, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, 

 sinuous below vein 2, the area befrn'een it and the subterminal line 

 suffused with purple-brown except towards costa and inner margin ; 

 subterminal line black, oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 6, 

 then waved ; a series of rather dentate black marks before termen, 

 the mark below apex lunulate ; cilia chequered black and white. 

 Hind wing uniform black-brown. Underside black-brown ; fore 

 wing with some white marks on postmedial part of costa and sub- 

 terminal and terminal series of white spots ; hind wing with slight 

 white discoidal spot and slight mark formed by white scales before 

 termen. 



S • Hind wing with the inner margin fringed with yellow hair. 



Hah. Venezuela (Priffwifz), 1 $ , cJ in Coll. Eothschild. 

 IJxj). 6 44, $ 50-64 millim. 



Genus ELYDNODES, nov. 



Type, E. variegata. 



Proboscis fully deTelopecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, thickly scaled; frons smooth • 

 eyes large, round ; antennaj of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the metathorax with small paired crests, the patagia with long 

 spatulate scales at extremities; tibiss moderately fringed with hair; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex produced and falcate, the termen 

 excised to vein 4 where it is excurved, then oblique to tornus ; veins 3 and 5 



