552 NoCTxriUiE, 



*5827. Litliacodia geoga. (Plate CLXV. fig. 15.) 



EuRtroHa geoga, Scliaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 103 (1906). 



5 . Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with black-brown ; 

 pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous and irrorated with dark brown, the crests 

 blackish. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated and suffused with 

 black-brown ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line blackish, oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform defined by blackish, 

 ellijJtical ; orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former 

 small, round, the latter somewhat angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; an indistinct waved dark medial line ; postmedial line 

 black d-^fined by reddish ochreous on outer side, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely sinuous, exeurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line slight, whitish defined on inner side by 

 black-brown suffusion, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, inwards at 

 discal fold, exeurved at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing 

 pale rufous; an indistinct curved postmedial line and fine terminal 

 line ; cilia whitish with a brown line near base ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a brown 

 discoidal spot, waved postmedial line, traces of irregular subterminal 

 line, and terminal series of black strise. 



Hah. Mexico, Guadalajara {Schaus), type f $ in U.S. Nat. Mus, 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



5828. Lithacodia nana. 



Cryphia nana, Hiibn. Zutr. i. 14, ff. 53, 54 (1827); Smith, Cat. Noct, 

 N. Ain.p.49. 



<5 . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; pectus 

 whitish, the tibise and tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen 

 pale brown with whitish segmental lines, the crests black. Fore 

 wing greyish almost wholly sufi'ufied with brown and slightly 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line slight, pale, from costa to sub- 

 median fold; antemedial line black defined on inner side by grey 

 towards costa, incurved in cell and inwardly oblique below sub- 

 median fold ; orbicular represented by a quadrate grey patch 

 defined at sides by oblique black lines extending to costa; reniform 

 defined on inner side hy black, hardly defined on outer, extending 

 to well below cell ; postmedial line indistinct, double, filled in with 

 grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 exeurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa and a short black streak below the costa ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, greyish slightly defined on inner side by brown and the 

 area beyond it somewhat browner, exeurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 



