LITHACOBIA. 537 



*5803. Lithacodia benita. (Plate CLXIY. fig. 31.) 



Tarache benita, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 160 (1904). 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black and a few 

 white scales ; palpi whitish in front ; tibise and tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen black-brown with slight whitish segmental 

 rings. Fore wing black-brown mixed with some red and grey to 

 reniform and below it to postmedial line, then white to beyond 

 postraedial liue, the terminal area pale brown ; subbasal line black 

 slightly defined by white on inner side, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold in which there is a short ochreous streak before it; 

 antemedial line black defined by whitish on inner side, minutely 

 waved and inwardly oblique, slightly excurved below costa and 

 submedian fold ; orbicular a minute ochreous spot defined by black ; 

 reniform white incompletely defined by black, rather concave to- 

 wards base ; a diffused dentate black medial line, oblique from 

 costa to below reniform ; postmedial line with brown spot at costa, 

 oblique to vein 6, then double, the inner line black and waved, in- 

 curved below vein 5, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white with some red suffusion before it below costa, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, with a black patch from it to 

 termen at discal fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing dark brown, the cilia white at tips on inner half; the 

 underside paler brown with some whitish irroration in and beyond 

 cell, a small discoidal spot, indistinct postmedial line excurved to 

 veiu 5, then oblique, and a terminal series of dark spots with white 

 spots before them except towards apex. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Paraiia {D. Jones), type f $ in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus, Eicp. 24 millim. 



5804. Lithacodia normalis, n. sp. (Plate CLXIV. fig. 32.) 



5 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with reddish brown and 

 fuscous ; palpi black, whitish at base in front ; fore tibiae and tarsi 

 banded black and white ; abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing purplish red mixed with grey and irrorated with black, 

 the inner area grey-white to submedian fold with some greenish 

 below base of cell, the terminal area grey- white except at apex 

 interrupted by a blackish streak below vein 4 ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a slight black striga from costa ; traces of a black ante- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter elliptical ; an indistinct blackish medial shade ; 

 postmedial line double, Ihe outer line obsolescent on the white area, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, some slight whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterrainal line whitish, defined on inner side by black suffusion 

 except on the white area where it is obsolescent, angled outwards 

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



