534 NocTiriD^. 



area to vein 2 slightly irrorated with brown, a small brown dis- 

 coidal spot, curved rather diffused postmedial and subterminal lines, 

 a terminal series of lunulate black spots from apex to vein 2 and a 

 line in submedian interspace. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus), type f $ in "U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Ea-j>. 24 millim. 



5799. Lithacodia melanostigma. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 29.) 

 Erastria 'melanostigma, Ilinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 302 (1894). 



$ . Head and thorax whitish suffused with ochreous brown, 

 the tips of patagia with some black scales ; palpi blackish with 

 white tips ; legs with blackish mixed, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish mixed with brown, the crests black. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with ochreous brown and irrorated with a few 

 black scales, the inner half of medial area velvetj- black ; siibbasal 

 line represented by small obliquel}^ placed black spots on costa and 

 in cell ; antemedial line with two lalack points at costa, then whitish 

 obsolescent and oblique to median nervure with a black point on it 

 in cell, then pure white and inwardly oblique ; claviform and 

 orbicular absent ; reniform a very indistinct whitish lunule with 

 some black scales on it ; some white suffusion on terminal part of 

 median nervure and beyond the cell ; a black striga from middle of 

 costa; postmedial line represented by two black points on costa 

 with some white suffusion below them, below vein 6 double, black 

 filled in with white, very minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by black 

 suffusion from costa to vein 3, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia whitish mixed with 

 fuscous, mostly white towards tornus. Hind wing brown with a 

 golden gloss ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside whitish tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, 

 a blackish discoidal point, sinuous postmedial line, and fine 

 terminal line. 



Hab. Assam, Khcisis (Elives), 2 $ type, Naga Hills {Doherty), 

 1 § . Exp. 22 millim. 



5800. Lithacodia senex, (Plate CLXIV. fig. 30.) 

 Ei-astria senex, Biitl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 189. 



Head white, the palpi, a bar above frons, and antennae blackish ; 

 thorax black-brown with some white scales, the patagia, pro- and 

 metathorax with white patches ; pectus and legs white tinged with 

 rufous, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white suffused with 

 rufous, the crests black. Fore wing white tinged with olive-brown ; 

 the basal costal area black irrorated with white scales, a black band 

 from it to inner margin, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 

 above inner margin ; the subbasal line rei)resented by a white striga 



