LITHACODIA. 539 



grej' patch slightly defined on inner side by black, undefined on 

 outer; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in Avith whitish, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa, the 

 dark costal area beyond it tinged with rufous at middle ; subterminal 

 line represented by a grey striga from costa on the dark area ; a 

 smal] round black spot on termen below vein 4 ; cilia with a brown 

 line at middle and some black scales at tips beyond the terminal 

 spot. Hind wing reddish brown ; the cilia whitish with a brown 

 line through them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside whitish 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal lunule, curved 

 crenulate postmedial line, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hah. SiKHiM {Moller), type t $ in Coll. Rothschild. E.vp. 

 24 millim. 



5807. Lithacodia fasciana. 



Tortrix fasciana, Linu. Faun. Suec. p. 342 (1761); Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 231. 

 Noctna strigilis, Scliaff. Icones, Ins. ii. pi. 179. ff. 4, 5 (1769), nee Clerck. 

 Noctua fusGula, Schiff. Wicn. Vei-z. p. 89(1776); Borkh. Eur. Schmett. 



iy. p. "192 (1792); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 297 (1802); Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pt. i. p. 370, pi. 123. f.' 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Hawst. iii. 



p. 119; Curt, Brit. Ent. p. 356. 

 Noctua ■polygramma, Esp. Schmett, iv. pi. 146. f. 7 (1790). 

 Noctua 'prmdimcula, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 17f> (1792). 

 BryopJiila guenei, Fallou, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1864, pp. 27, 688, pi. 1. f. 3. 



Head and thorax blackish mixed with white and some red-brown ; 

 tarsi whitish banded with black ; abdomen blackish mixed with 

 white, the dorsal crests black. Fore wing olive-brown mixed with 

 red-brown, grey and black, the postmedial and terminal areas 

 whitish except towards costa ; subbasal line indistinct, blackish 

 defined on outer side by whitish, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish, waved, rather oblique; 

 claviform defined by whitish and black at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform with whitish annuli defined by black, the former round, 

 the latter with slight white lunule in centre, some black in cell 

 between them and beyond lower extremity of latter ; an oblique 

 waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish towards 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutelj" waved, excurved to 

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

 subterminal line white, defined on inner side by a black patch on 

 costal area, then by some olive suffusion, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved and minutely waved at middle ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules, obsolescent towards tornus ; cilia chequered brown 

 and white at tips. Hind wing whitish wholly suffused with brown ; 

 a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white with a dark line at middle 

 and series of brown spots at tips from apex to vein 2 ; the under- 

 side white irrorated with brown, the apical area tinged with rufous, 



