LITHACODIA. 531 



5795. Lithacodia carneola. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 26.) 



Erastria carneola, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 228 (1852) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. 



N, Am, p. 312. 

 Erastria biplaga, Wlk. xii. 809 (1857). 



Head and thorax white mixed with dark reddish brown ; palpi 

 black-brown, whitish in front towards base ; pectus and legs white, 

 the fore tibi;© and tarsi black-brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white mixed with some brown, the crests black-brown. Fore wing 

 grey tinged with pinkish and rufous ; the antemedial area obliquely 

 from costa to inner margin at postmedial line dark brown mixed 

 with reddish brown leaving some diffused white at base, a truncate 

 triangular dark brown patch on costa from middle to near apex 

 extending to lower angle of cell ; subbasal line represented by an 

 oblique whitish striga from costa, a minute subbasal streak of raised 

 black scales below the cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double filled 

 in with whitish, oblique, sinuous ; orbicular represented by an 

 oblique black striga on its outer edge ; reniform irrorated with 

 grey and defined by black at sides ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with whitish, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then with three short black streaks beyond ii, then minutely 

 dentate and produced to black points on the veins, incurved below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 white, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of dark striae slightly defined by white on 

 inner side ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous. Hind wing white 

 tinged with red-brown except on costal area ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia white tinged with red-brown at base ; the underside 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule, curved 

 minutely waved postmedial line, and traces of subterminal line. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 J , Manitoba, Assiniboine R. {Russell), 



3 c?, 2 $ ; U.S.A., East of Rocky Mts., Massachusetts {Burg), 

 1 c? , Beverley, 2 c? , 1 ? , New York {Doubleday, Packard), 8 <i , 



4 2 type. Garrison {Cockerell), 2 J, Illinois, 1 cJ . Exp. 26- 

 30 millim. 



Larva. Coquillett, Papilio, i. p. 7. 



Green, the subdorsal space tinged with blackish ; white sub- 

 dorsal and stigmatal lines and rows of white dots between. Head 

 green. Pood-plant: Yellow Dock. — H. G. D. 



5796. Lithacodia apicosa. (Plate CLXIV, fig. 27.) 



Phytometra apicosa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 261 (1809); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 

 Haust. iii. p. 119 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. p. 74, pi. 17. f. 425; Soaith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 311. 



Erastria mgritula, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 229, pi. x. f. 7 (1852). 



Miana undiUifera, Wlk. ix. 258 (1856). 



Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with some grey ; antennae 

 ringed with grey ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black mixed 

 with white towards base and with slight white segmental lines ; 



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