LITHACODIA. 527 



5788. Litliacodia musta. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 22.) 



Erastria musta, Grote & Eob. Trans. Ent. Soc. i. p. 358 (1868) ; Druce, 

 Eiol. Oentr.-Ara., Het. i. p. 311 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 311. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey mixed with some 

 red-brown and black ; palpi blackish ; frons with lateral black bars ; 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen with the crests black. 

 Fore wing olive-green irrorated with black, the outer half of medial 

 area partly suffused with rufous ; subbasal line black, from costa 

 to median nervure ; antemedial line black defined on inner side by 

 Avhitish and rufous, erect, slightly sinuous ; claviform with rufous 

 and black centre and whitish annulus defined by black ; orbicular 

 with black centre and rufous annulus defined by black, small, 

 round; reniform with rufous centre and incomplete whitish annulus 

 defined by black, a black streak beyond it in discal fold ; an 

 oblique slightly waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double, black filled in with rufous, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some white beyond it at costa and from 

 vein 4 to inner margin; subterminal line represented by slight 

 dentate white marks defined on inner side by dentate black marks 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 striae ; cilia black mixed with grey and with black line at middle. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; a fine black terminal 

 line ; cilia whitish and fuscous with a dark line near base ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and 

 minutely waved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area almost wholly suffused 

 with black and purplish grey. — Costa Eica. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, W. Virginia, 

 1 5 5 Kentucky (Sanhorn), 1 5 , Missouri ; Costa Rica, E. Sucio 

 (Eoaers), 3 c? , 3 5 , Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 2 , Grodman- 

 Salv'in Coll. Exj). 20-24 millim. 



*5789. Litliacodia cidarioides. 



Motama cidarioides. Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 110, pi. 4. f. 9 (1882); Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 302. 



Head and thorax purple-brown ; pectus and legs greyish. Fore 

 wing dark purple-brown, the basal area and the terminal area 

 except at apex golden yellow ; subbasal line represented by a 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line double filled in with 

 yellow, erect, minutely waved ; orbicular with faint yellow annulus, 

 round ; reniform yellow with dark points in upper and lower parts, 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line double filled in with yellow, 

 bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then bent inwards 

 and again slightly excurved ; subterminal line represented by some 



