544: NOCTTJID.'E. 



the terminal area tinged with rufous, the discoidal black spot larger, 

 the postmedial line crenulate, an indistinct diffused subtermmal 

 line. 



Hah. S.E. Pertj, Agualani (Oclcenden), 2 c? type. Exj?. 26 

 millim. 



5814, Lithacodia onytes. (Plate CLXV. fig. 6.) 



Tarache onytes, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 240 (1894). 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some white ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white irrorated with brown, the crests 

 black, the ventral surface blackish. Eore wing black-brown with 

 a bronze gloss and iiTorated with white ; subbasal line represented 

 by a whitish point on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, whitish, 

 oblique, sinuous ; claviform represented by a small white spot 

 defined by black at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with 

 faint whitish annuli incompletely defined at sides by black, the 

 former oblique, the latter angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 traces of an oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish, slightly defined on each side by blackish, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia black-brown mixed with whitish and with a dark line through 

 them. Hind wing white irrorated with reddish brown especially 

 on terminal area, a slight discoidal bar, postmedial line excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique, and dark terminal line ; cilia whit.e with a 

 dark line through them ; the underside thickly irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal spot and evenly curved postmedial line. 



Huh. Brazil, Castro Parana {D, Jones)., 1 (S . Kvj:). 28 millim. 



5815. Lithacodia confusa. (Plate CLXV. fig. 7.) 



Erastria confusa, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 143. 



5. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-brown; tarsi 

 brown with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous mixed with brown, the 

 crests blackish. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with greyish 

 ochreous, the medial area except towards costa and the postmedial 

 area rather darker ; antemedial line dark, defined on inner side by 

 greyish, erect, waved ; orbicular with greyish annulus slightly 

 defined by brown, round ; reniform greyish slightly defined by 

 brown, its centre also defined by brown ; medial line oblique from 

 costa to reniform, oblique and sinuous from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 greyish defined on inner side by dark brown, angled outwards at 



