LITHACODIA. 549 



Costa to median nervure ; reniform silverj' grey-white slightly 

 defined by dark brown and with dark striga in centre, narrow ; 

 postmedial line double, brown filled in with whitish towards costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then bsnt inwards 

 to lower edge of reniform and slightly waved to inner margin, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subtermmal line white, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and more stronglj^ at middle, a dark patch 

 beyond it at discal fold ; a terminal series of small triangular dark 

 brown spots. Hind wing whitish, the terminal half suffused with 

 cupreous brown ; an indistinct dark discoidal lunule ; cilia paler 

 with a whitish line at base; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with red- brown, a dark 

 brown discoidal lunule, waved postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa and inwards at vein 2, and a terminal series of brown lunules 

 defined on inner side by white from apex to vein 2. 



ffab. Dutch ^N". Guinea, Fuk-fak (Pratt), 1 $ type. E.v2i. 22 

 millim. 



*o823. Lithacodia valta. (Plate CLXV. fig. 12.^ 



Eustrotia walta, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 153 (1904). 



(5 . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with some dark brown, especially on thorax behind ; palpi banded 

 with blackish ; frons with lateral blackish bars ; tarsi fuscous wifh 

 pale rings ; abdomen ochreous whitish irrorated with brown, tho 

 crests black. Fore wing bluish grey suffused in parts with rufous 

 and black; antemedial line grey defined on inner side by a slight 

 fuscous line and on outer by a black band, curved and' miuuiely 

 waved, the black band ending at vein 1 in a wedge-shaped black 

 mark below the claviform, which is defined above and at extremity 

 by white produced as a point to postmedial line, with some black 

 suffusion above it ; orbicular white defined by black and with slight 

 rufous centre, round, a diffused oblique brown bar from it to costa ; 

 reniform with rufous centre and slight whitish anuulus incom- 

 pletely defined by black, slightly angled inwards on median nervure; 

 postmedial line double, black filled in with white, obsolescent 

 towards costa, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards 

 at discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold and very 

 slightly excurved at vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line white with oblique black bar beyond it from apex, 

 defined on inner side by slight black streaks below costa, with 

 wedge-shaped black mark before it above vein 6 and spot below it 

 and dentate black marks at middle, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 inwards in discal fold, and outwards at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series 

 of minute black lunules slightly defined by whitish on inner side ; 

 cilia brown at base, chequered blackish and white at lips. Hind 

 wing reddish brown ; a terminal series of blackish striae ; cilia pale 

 rufous at base, white with blackish points at tips ; the underside. 



