LITUACODIA. 523 



5781. Lithacodia atrinotata, n. sp. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 15.) 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale olive-green mixed with some 

 rufous and black ; palpi black, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd 

 joints white ; frons with lateral black bars; tibise and tarsi banded 

 with blackish. Pore wing pale olive-green suffused in parts with 

 reddish brown especially on medial and postmedial areas ; a strong 

 black subbasal bar defined at sides by white from costa to sub- 

 median fold, with a black mark below it on inner margin ; a 

 slightly sinuous rather diffused blackish erect antemedial line ; 

 orbicular represented by a small black spot ; reniform a very 

 ill-defined whitish mark with some blackish striae on its inner 

 edge ; an indistinct interrupted slightly sinuous blackish medial 

 line ; postmedial line with black point at costa, then slight, 

 whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, below vein 6 rather 

 diffused dark brown, incurved below vein 4 ; subtermiual line 

 almost obsolete towards costa, below vein 5 strong, white, incurved 

 below vein 3, a strong black fascia from it to termen below vein 4, 

 its inner extremity rather bifid ; a terminal series of slight blackish 

 lunules faintly defined by whitish on inner side and a small 

 triangular black spot below the black fascia ; cilia pale green 

 mixed with black-brown towards apex and at middle. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with reddish brown, the apex with dark brown ; 

 traces of a curved postmedial line ; a terminal series of dark strise 

 with white points between them ; cilia whitish mixed with red- 

 brown and with brown line at middle ; the underside white 

 irrorated with red and a few dark scales, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with red, a black discoidal spot and curved minutely 

 waved reddish postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro [Wilson), 1 $ type, Ex]). 22 

 millim. 



5782. Lithacodia crotopha. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 16.) 

 Erastria croto23ha, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 620 (1905). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with fiery red and black scales ; 

 palpi rufous and blackish tipped with white ; tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white; abdomen rufous mixed with fuscous, 

 some whitish at base, the crests blackish. Fore wing golden 

 green irrorated with some black and white scales, the costal area 

 suffused with rufous ; subbasal line represented by a black striga 

 from costa ; some rufous above base of inner margin ; antemedial 

 line black slightly defined on inner side by white and with some 

 rufous and black suffusion before it from costa to below cell, erect, 

 minutely dentate, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform and orbicular 

 absent ; reniform with faint whitish annulus and black point in 

 lower part, narrow and constricted at middle ; a diffused rufous 

 medial band with sinuous edges ; postmedial line black defined by 

 white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 



