550 NOCTTTID^. 



white irrorated with blackish, a black discoidal spot with diffused 

 bar above it from costa, a curved minutely waved postmedial line, 

 and diffused rufous oblique shade from apex. 



Hah. Mexico, Guadalajara (Schaus), type f J in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 JExp. 30 millim. 



5824. Lithacodia coenia. (Plate CLXV, fig. 13.)^ 

 Metachrostis cania, Swinh. A. M, N. H. (7; vii. p. 471 (1901). 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with reddish brown ; 

 palpi and legs with black scales mixed, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous white with fuscous bands, the crests blackish. 

 Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous, deeper on costal area, the 

 medial area suffused with black from costa to median nervure ; 

 subbasal line represented by black points on costa and median 

 nervure and a slight streak below vein 1 ; antemedial line whitish 

 defined on each side by diffused rufous, minutely waved, oblique 

 from costa to subnaedian fold, then erect ; an oblique black streak 

 defined on inner side by white from costa to submedian fold where 

 it is slightly angled inwards, representing the outer edge of orbicular 

 and claviform ; reiiiform greyish defined by black, constricted at 

 middle, and with slight black streaks beyond its lower extremity; 

 traces of an oblique rufous line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double filled in with white, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some 

 whitish points with minute black streaks between them beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line white with two small wedge-shaped 

 black marks before it at middle, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; some minute dark strise on termen; cilia pale yellow with 

 slight fuscous points at tips from below apex to vein 3. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; the basal area suffused with brown ; a blackish 

 discoidal point, traces of a curved postmedial line, diffused sub- 

 terminal band, and terminal series of minute black lunules ; the 

 underside yellowish irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. 8iK-aiM. {Dudgeon), 1 $; Assam, Khiisis, 1 $, Jaintia Hills, 

 1 5 type. Ex2y. 26 millim. 



5825. Lithacodia squalida. 



Erastria squalida, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 527, pi. 52. f. 9, 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown, the head and tegulas 

 with dark brown scales mixed ; legs mostly dark brown, the tarsi 

 with slight pale rings ; abdomen with the crests tipped with 

 blackish. Pore wing pale red-brown mixed with greyish, the 

 costal area rather darker except at apex ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight pale striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards on median 



