LITHACODIA. 505 



(Fortune^ Culiiin), 3 J , 1 $ type suhfixa, Kiukiang (^Pryer), 1 J , 

 1 $ , Ichang {Mrs. Pratt, IJobson), 3 $ ; Kashmir, Rajaori (Leech), 

 T- cJ , 1 2 ; Punjab, Kulu (Pilcher), 2 cT , Dharmsala (Hoching), 

 3 d" , 2 $ , Allahabad, 1 c? , Manpuri, 1 $ ; N. Inuia {James), 1 $ 

 type; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 $; Madras, Nilgiris {Hampson), 1 c? , 

 1 § ; Ceylon {Nietner, Machwood), 3 J , 6 2 ; Burma, Thayetrayo 

 {Watson), 1 5, Kangoon, 1 5; A ndamans (i2o(/(5rs), 2 5; Penang 

 ( Cantor), 1 $ ; N. Australia, Port Darwin {J. J. Walker), 1 § ; 

 Queensland, Cairns, 1 ^ , Geraldton, 1 § . Kvp. 16-22 millim. 



57.^7. Lithacodia blandula. 



Erasirui hlaiuhda, Guen. Mai Hard's Reunion, Lep. p. 38 (1863); Saalm. 



Lep. Madag. p. 352. f. 167. 

 Anthophila i-grcBCum, Mab. OR. Ent. Soc. Belg. xxv. p. Ixi (1881). 

 Tarache perta, Schaus, Lep. 8. Leone, p. 36, pi. iii. f. 10 (1893). 



Head and thorax white mixed with some brown, especially on the 

 .tegulse ; palpi brownish at base and with black band on 2nd joint ; 

 antennae brown I'inged with white ; tibise and tarsi with blackish 

 bands; abdomen white mixed with some brown, the crests tipped 

 with black. Fore wing pure white, the basal part of costa yellow- 

 brown with a subbasal black striga from costa defined by white on 

 outer side and black point in cell nearer base ; antemedial line 

 black, oblique, slightly waved, with a broad yellow-brown band 

 beyond it slightly irrorated with black ; two minute black streaks 

 at angles of cell ; a brown patch irrorated with black beyond the 

 cell before the postmedial line, which is bent outwards and almost 

 obsolete below costa, then double, blackish filled in with white, 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 3, then bent inwards to lower 

 angle of cell, single and defining the outer edge of medial band, 

 oblique and sinuous to inner margin ; postmedial area yellow- 

 brown except towards inner margin, irrorated with black and with 

 some white points on costa; subterminal line w^hite, defined on 

 inner side by diffused somewhat dentate black marks, angled 

 inwards below costa and at discal and submedian folds, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; terminal area reddish ; cilia yellowish 

 brown and black with a blackish line through them. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown especially towards termen ; cilia ochreous 

 white with a diffused dark line through them ; the underside white 

 irrorated with fuscous especially on costal area, a dark discoidal 

 spot, diffused rather maculate postmedial line, angled outwards at 

 discal fold, then incurved, and traces of diff'used subterminal line 

 from costa to submedian fold. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Clements), 1 c? , 2 $ ; Gold Coast, Kumasi 

 {Whiteside), 1 $ ; Abyssinia, Atbara E. (Gerrard), 1 (S , 1 $ ; 

 Br. E. Africa, Teita (Jackson), 1 § ; Mashonaland, IJmtali (Mar- 

 shall), 2 5; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), 1 d" , Durban (Gooch, 

 Leigh, Jeffery), 2 (^ , 2 5; Madagascar, type t i-grcecum in Coll. 

 Mabille; Reunion, Eajo. 16-20 millim. 



