LITHACOMA. 533 



from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line black, strongly excurved 

 beyond the cell and dentate at veins 2 and 1 ; subterminal line 

 brownish, closely approximated to the postmedial line, strongly 

 dentate at discal and submedian folds, the area beyond it becoming 

 silvery white towards termen ; a rufous line just before termen 

 angled inwards at discal and submedian folds so as almost to divide 

 up the subterminal area into three rounded patches ; a triangular 

 red mark on termen at discal fold followed by a line to tornus ; 

 cilia rufous, chequered with black at middle. Hind wing serai- 

 hyaline white, the veins, costal and terminal areas suflfused with 

 reddish brown ; cilia white, tinged with rufous at apex ; the under- 

 side with the costal area sufl'used with red, a dark discoidal spot, 

 indistinct postmedial line excurved at vein 6, and rufous terminal 

 li]ie. 



Hah. Guatemala, Volcan de Atitlan [Chaminon), 1 (S type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Ex/>. 20 millim. 



*.5798. Lithacodia editlia. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 28.) 

 Eustrotia eclitha, Schaus, Trans. Ain. Eat. Soc. xxx, p. 154 (1904). 



2 . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with blackish ; palpi 

 with pale band at base of 3rd joint ; two black points between 

 antennae ; tegulse with blackish lines near base and tips ; patagia 

 with black annuli at middle and black tips ; meso- and metathorax 

 with paired black spots ; pectus and legs white tinged with rufous, 

 the tarsi blackish ringed with white : abdomen whitish suffused 

 with rufous. Fore wing with the basal half bright rufous mixed 

 with some fuscous and white, its outer edge slightly incurved ; 

 subbasal line double, black filled in with pule pink, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, black tilled in with 

 pale pink, waved, slightly angled outwards below costa ; orbicular 

 defined by black, small, round ; medial line blackish, slightly ex- 

 curved, incurved at submedian fold; terminal half white almost 

 wholly suffused with pale olive-brown, except in and above end of 

 cell ; reniform defined by some brown points ; an incurved olive 

 band from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a postmedial olive 

 band, with slight blackish marks on it beyond the cell, bent out- 

 wards and almost obsolete below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, defined by white on outer side on inner half, some white 

 points beyond it on costa with minute black streaks between them 

 before the subterminal curved white line which is defined on inner 

 side by an olive band ; a terminal series of black points from apex to 

 vein 4 with a lunulate black patch on termen and cilia at discal fold ; 

 cilia pale olive. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown ; 

 a terminal series of dark spots from apex to vein 4; cilia whitish 

 tinged with red towards apex. Underside of fore wing with the 

 costal area fiery red ; hind wing whitish, the costal area and veins 

 beyond the cell suffused with fiery red, the costal area and terminal 



