LTTHACODIA. 553 



series of dark strias slightly defined on inner side by grey. Hind 

 wing greyish wholly suffused with red- brown ; a slight dark terminal 

 line; cilia paler; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brown, a dark discoidal spot ; indistinct curved postmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Alabama, 1 c? , Georgia. Exj). 22 millim. 



5829. Lithacodia griseomixta. 



Erastria griseomixta, Hmpsn. Monograph of Christmas I. p. 68, pi. is. 

 f. 5 (1900). 



5 . Head, and thorax grey-white mixed with brown ; abdomen 

 whitish dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated with brown. 

 Pore wing grey-white irrorated and on postmedial area suffused with 

 reddish brown ; subbasal line brown, oblique to median nervnre 

 where it is angled and ending at submedian fold; antcmedial line 

 brown defined on inner side by white, excurved in cell and sub- 

 median interspace and angled inwards on median nervure and 

 vein 1 ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform represented by 

 dark points at angles of cell; postmedial line white with a dark bar 

 before it from costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and minutely dentate to inner margin at antemedial line; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by fuscous brown, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle, crossed by slight dark streaks 

 towards apex and at middle ; cilia chequered brown and white. 

 Hind wing cupreous brown ; the base whitish ; cilia white mixed 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area white irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hab. Chkistmas I. {Andrews), 1 $ type. Eay. 22 millim. 



*-5830. Lithacodia merta. (Plate CLXV. fig. 16.) 



rcditidia merta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 38 (1901). 



5 , Head and tegulae dark brown mixed with someochreous white ; 

 thorax ochreous white tinged with red-brown ; pectus and legs 

 dark brown, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen with the basal 

 half ochreous white tinged with rufous, the terminal half fuscous 

 brown with slight whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface 

 ochreous white. Pore wing with the basal half ochreous white 

 tinged with rufous and with a large black-brown patch on basal 

 costal area extending to submedian fold, the terminal half bkick- 

 brown ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double, bluckish, irregularly waved, the 

 lines rather far apart : medial liue blackish, bounding the pale area, 

 interrupted by short ochreous white streaks at subcostal and median 

 nervures; reniform incompletely defined by black, constricted at 

 middle; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below 



