LTTHACODTA. 511 



5767. Litliacodia albidula. (Plate CLXIY. fig. 6.) 



Erasiria albidula, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 230 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 309. 

 Nonagria intractahilis, Wlk. Can. Nat. & Geol. v. p. 252 (1860). 

 Conohylis cretiferana, Wlk. xxviii. 359 (1863). 



Head and thorax white, the antennae and tegulse tinged with 

 ochreous ; palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints blackish at sides 

 except at tips ; legs tinged with ochreous ; abdomen white. Fore 

 wing white suffused with pale reddish ochreous and slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a very indistinct slightly sinuous reddish ochreous 

 antemedial line ; orbicular and reuiform with faint white annuli, 

 the former small, round ; postmedial line white defined on inner 

 side by reddish ochreous suffusion, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; faint traces 

 of a whitish subterminal line ; a terminal series of slight brownish 

 strise. Hind wing white slightly tinged with ochreous ; a fine 

 ochreous terminal line and fine line near base of cilia ; the under- 

 side white irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged with reddish 

 ochreous, a black discoidal point. 



Hah. Newfoundland, Doyles Cadroy Valley {Maj. Beddek)^ 1 J ; 

 Canada, Nova Scotia (Bedman), 1 c? , 2 $ type cretiferana ; U.S.A., 

 New Hampshire, White Mts., 1 cS , Massachusetts, Buffalo,! j , 

 1 5 , New York {Doubleday, PacJmrd), 4 J , 3 $ , California 

 (Walsingham), 1 d ,2 2- Exp. 22-30 millim. 



5768. Lithacodia parvimacula. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 7.) 



Eustrotia parvimacula, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 67 (1880); Smith Cat 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 310. 



S . Head and thorax pale blue-green mixed with some blackish 

 brown and a few red scales ; palpi whitish mixed with fuscous ; 

 pectus and legs white mixed with brown, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale 

 blue-green irrorated with a few red scales, the scales slightly 

 pencilled with white ; a black point at base of costa ; subbasal line 

 blackish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double filled in with whitish, oblique, waved ; claviform 

 a small round ferruginous brown spot well separated from the 

 antemedial line ; orbicular black with white annulus, oblique 

 elliptical and connected with a black bar from costa; reniform with 

 ferruginous brown centre and white annulus incompletely defiued by 

 black, round ; a slight medial striga from costa and sinuous line 

 from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled 

 in with white, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points with fuscous between 

 them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white with some 

 fuscous before and beyond it on costal area, then defined on 

 inner side by slight dentate black marks, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia 



