538 NOCTUID^ 



lunules ; cilia black and white on apical half, mostly white towards 

 tornus. Hind wing white suffused with brown ; cilia white with 

 a fuscous liue through them ; the underside ochreous white irro- 

 rated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, curved minutely waved 

 postmedial line, and terminal series of small black luuules. 



Hah. Tkansvaal, Johannesburg (CooJce), 1 $ type. Exj>. 

 24 millim. 



5805. Lithacodia larentiformis. (Plate CLXV. fig. 1.) 



Erastria cidarioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 142 (1882), nee id. p. 110, pi. iv. 



f. 9. 

 Erastria larentiformis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 301 (1894). 



$ . Head and thorax blackish mixed with red-brown and grey ; 

 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, 

 the crests blackish. Fore wing black-brown mixed with rufous 

 and grey, the postmedial area white from vein 6 to inner margin ; 

 antemedial line black defined on inner side by ochreous below costa 

 and cell and by white from submedian fold to inner margin, 

 waved ; orbicular and reniform with faint grey annuli defined by 

 black, the former round, the latter somewhat constricted at 

 middle ; an indistinct sinuous black line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line double, black filled in with ochreous 

 towards costa and with white below vein 6, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6 where it is angled outwards, slightly angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3, then incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal liue white defined on inner side by black towards costa 

 and with a short black streak before it below vein 4, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; terminal area brown, blackish at apex ; a 

 terminal series of black striae ; cilia fuscous with a white line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish almost wholly suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; a terminal series of black striae slightly defined by 

 white on inner side ; cilia whitish with a series of fuscous points at 

 tips ; the underside white iiTorated with fuscous, the terminal area 

 faintly tinged with purplish pink, a black discoidal spot and 

 minutely waved excurved postmedial line slightly angled at discal 

 fold. 



Hab. QiKKiu (Lidder dale, AtJcmson), 3 O type. ^t^?. 30 millim. 



*5806. Lithacodia glaucopis. (Plate CLXV. fig. 2.) 

 Erastria glmico'jns, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 302 (1894). 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous in front ; 

 fore tibiae and tarsi brownish, the latter ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous white irrorated with brown. Pore wing gre)' -white tinged 

 in parts with ochreous, the costal area suffused with black-brown 

 narrowing to apex, the medial area suffused with black-brown ; an 

 indistinct waved dark antemedial line ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 represented by a diffused blackish patch, the reniform by a rounded 



