LITHACODIA. 541 



5809. Lithacodia muscosula. (Plate CLXV. fig. 3.) 



Erastria muscosula, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 230 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 311. 



c? . Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown ; palpi with 

 the 2nd and 3rd joints black, white at tips ; fore tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen white irrorated with brown, the crests blackish. 

 Pore wing white mostly suffused with olive-green and irrorated 

 with black, the postmedial area white except towards costa, the 

 terminal area white tinged with fuscous ; subbasal line represented 

 by blackish striae from costa and cell ; autemedi-il line indistinctly 

 double filled in with white, oblique, waved ; claviform denned by 

 white at extremity; orbicular and reniform with white annuli, the 

 former round, the latter constricted at middle ; some black suffusion 

 between them and a black spot on costa; an oblique sinuous line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line white, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing white, the inner half slightly suflTused 

 with brown ; a terminal series of blackish striae and dark line 

 through the cilia ; the underside white irrorated with a few black 

 scales, a black discoidal spot and indistinct postmedial line excurved 

 from below costa to vein 3. 



5 . Hind wing more uniformly tinged with brown. 



Uab. Canada {Norman), 1 J , Renfrew Co., 1 $ ; U.S.A., 

 Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New York {PacJcanl^ Grote), 

 2 (5 , 5 2 , Evans Center {Grote), 1 S , Trenton Falls {Douhleday), 

 1 (5 , Distr. of Columbia, Ohio, 2 $ . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



5810. Lithacodia falsa. (Plate CLXV. fig. 4.) 



Miana falsa, Butl. Cist. Ent. iii. p. 132 (1885). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white ; antennae 

 ringed black and white;- fore tarsi fuscous ringed with white; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the crests blackish. Pore 

 wing black irrorated with white, the postmedial area below vein 3 

 and the terminal area below vein 5 whiter ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, slightly 

 defined by white on inner side, waved ; orbicular and reniform with 

 white annuli, the former round, the latter figure-of-8-shaped ; traces 

 of a diffused black medial line ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 white, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line whitish, angled inwards below costa, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black striae slightly 



