LITHACODIA. 521 



5778. Lithacodia cuprea. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 13.) 



Galgula cuprea, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 119 (1898). 



S . Head brownish white, the autennse brown ringed with 

 white ; thorax purplish red ; palpi, pectus, and legs whitish mixed 

 with brown ; abdomen grey tinged with purplish and irrorated 

 with brown. Eore wing purple, the terminal area cupreous red ; 

 antemedial line olive-white with some deep red scales on its edges, 

 slightly angled outwards on subcostal and median nervures and 

 inwards at vein ] ; a dark discoidal striga with olive-white bar on 

 its inner side and white bar on its outer, its extremities confluent 

 with the postmedial line which is similarly coloured and angled 

 outwards beyond the cell, some deep red suffusion before it ; sub- 

 terminal line with whitish point at costa, then only defined by the 

 contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled inwards 

 Sit disc-al fold and incurved below vein 3 ; cilia cupreous red at 

 base, white at tips with brown patches at apex and between veins 

 4 and 2. Hind wing greyish brown, the cilia white with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brown, traces of a minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, 1 S , Castro Parafia (Z). Jones), 1 c? • Eocp. 22 

 millim. 



5779. Lithacodia mella. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 14.) 



Bryophila mella, Scbaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 224 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with blackish and some 

 scarlet scales; palpi with the ]st and 2ud joints black at sides; 

 tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen white with diffused blackish 

 bands, the basal joint tipped with scarlet. Fore wing while 

 irrorated with grey-green and some black; subbasal line black 

 defined by white on inner side, excurved to below cell, then 

 incurved, with patches of scarlet before it below costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line double at costa, black defined by white on outer 

 side, oblique and slightly waved from costa to below cell, then 

 angled inwards on vein 1, an oblique scarlet streak from it to 

 postmedial line in submedian fold; orbicular with black centre and 

 white annulus defined at sides by scarlet ; the reniform a black 

 bar defined by white on inner side ; postmedial line double except 

 below costa and towards inner margin, black filled in with white, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points with black marks between them beyond it on costa ; 

 sub terminal line represented by a white band with series of scarlet 

 spots on it except below costa, closely approximated to the post- 

 medial line below vein 6 and slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined 

 by white on inner side. Hind wing white, the apical area and 

 inner margin irrorated with black, a black discoidal bar and 



