532 NOCTUID^. 



the crests black, the ventral surface white tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing fuscous black tinged and irrorated with grey, the terminal 

 area white tinged with pink ; a tuft of white scales at base ; sub- 

 basal line black defined on outer side by some brown and white 

 scales, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black 

 defined on each side by some whitish scales, angled inwards at 

 vein 1, the claviform represented by a black mark on its outer edge ; 

 orbicular and reniform with brown centres and whitish annuli 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter oblique elliptical 

 with whitish lunule in centre ; postmedial line black defined on 

 outer side by pinkish, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, strongly incurved below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pinkish defined on 

 inner side by a red-brown band from the black costal area to 

 inner margin and on outer side by a black spot at middle, 

 then by some red-brown suffusion ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules defined on inner side by pinkish ; cilia chequered pinkish 

 and fuscous, with a black line at middle, wholly pinkish towards 

 apex. Hind wing j^ellowish white irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and dift'used subterminal 

 band ; a terminal series of black lunules from below apex to sub- 

 median fold ; cilia whitish with a dark line at middle from apex to 

 submedian fold ; the underside white slightly irrorated with black, 

 the costal area tinged with ochreous, a black discoidal lunule, 

 curved postmedial line, and traces of a diffused subterminal baud 

 with blackish patches at costa and discal and submedian folds. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 J ; U.S.A., Eastern and Central 

 States, Massachusetts (Bun/), 1 cJ > Beverley, 1 (5,1$, Cambridge 

 (Boll), 1 d , New Yoik (Osten-Sachen, Paclcard), 3 c?, 1 $ , Evans 

 Center (Grote), 2 $ , Pennsylvania, 1 $ , Florida, St. John's EluiF 

 (Douhledm/), 3 5 ? types nigritula and undulifera ; Cuba. . E.rp. 

 26-32 miilim. 



5797. Lithacodia minuta. 



Celana minuta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ara., Het. i. p. 276, pi. 27. f. 2 (1889). 



c? . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi with the 2nd joint 

 brownish at sides ; antennae brown ; tegulse with faint brownish 

 medial line ; patagia fuscous at extremities ; tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with fuscous ; abdomen white irrorated with fuscous towards ex- 

 tremity, the crests black, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing rufous 

 with a silvery gloss, the basal area and medial costal area irrorated 

 with black and tinged with leaden grey ; a bright red subbasal 

 mark in cell ; antemedial Hue indistinctly double filled in with 

 whitish and defined by whitish on inner side, very minutely waved 

 to median nervure, then excuiwed ; orbicular white tinged with 

 rufous, very oblique and extending to well below the cell ; reniform 

 with whitish annulus, small, elliptical ; a faint dentate medial line 



