LTTHACODIA. 547 



white tinged with brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing white 

 mostly suffused with olive-brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line represented bj'' a slight white striga from costa ; a white fascia 

 on median nervure expanding into a patch above vein 2 ; antemedial 

 line black defined by white on inner side, oblique, waved ; claviform 

 white with slight brown centre, defined by black except above 

 where it is confluent with the white fascia ; orbicular with brown 

 centre and white annulus defined by black on outer side, round ; 

 reniform white with some olive in centre, defined by black at sides, 

 constricted at middle ; a blackish patch on middle of costa and 

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

 medial line black with slight white streaks before it on the veins, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa and a 

 white band, dentate below vein 6 and defining the black lunules on 

 inner side of the slight white subtermiual line which is angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a large black apical patch 

 and some blackish at middle of termen ; a terminal series of minute 

 black lunules ; cilia white with series of black spots at tips and 

 some blackish at apex, middle, and tornus. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white with a 

 brown line through them and brown spots at tips ; the underside 

 white irrorated with olive-brown, a black discoidal spot and curved 

 minutelj^ waved postmedial line. 



Bab. W. China, Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exp. 28 

 millim. 



*5820. Lithacodia penthis. (Plate CLXV. fig. 10.) 



Eustrotia -penthis, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 154 (1904). 



S . Head black-brown, the frons and vertex with whitish 

 patches ; palpi ochreous at base and at base of 8rd joint ; thorax 

 ochreous, the tegulse with blackish medial band, the upper edge of 

 patagia and prothoracic crest blackish ; fore tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with brown ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with black, the crests 

 black. Fore wing olive-brown suffused with black ; an elliptical 

 ochreous patch on inner area from base of costa to middle, defined 

 by black suffusion above and with fuscous mark on inner margin 

 near base ; traces of a waved black antemedial line ; orbicular 

 ochreous defined by black, small and rather elliptical ; reniform 

 white defined by black and with some ochreous in centre, angled 

 inwards on median nervure; an indistinct sinuous black medial 

 line ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, strongly bent 

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

 then incurved ; the postmedial area without black suffusion except 

 on costal area and with some whitish points on costa ; subterminal 

 line white, rather diffused towards inner margin, minutely dentate, 

 defined on outer side bv rather dentate black marks between veins 



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