LITHACODIA. — STENOCODIA. 555 



terminal line with a small white spot at costa ; cilia with some 

 pale points at base towards apex and a white patch between veins 

 3 and 2. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; the underside 

 irrorated with whitish. 



Abdomen of male with large lateral spiracles at base covered by 

 valves. 



Hub. Mexico, type f c? in U.S. Nat. Mus. ; Guatemala, San 

 Isidro (Champion), i 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus STENOCODIA, nov. 



Type, S. purpicrascens. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex ol' head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round; anl,enn£e of male with fascicles of long cilia; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without cret;t, the metathorax with 

 spreading crest ; tibice slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest 

 at base only. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 Stalked, 10 from beyond 7 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 almost fully developed from well above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5833. Stenocodia purpurascens, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax purplish red mixed with whitish ; palpi 

 with some blackish at sides ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomeu whitish tinged with red and irrorated with blackish. Fore 

 wing purplish red mixed with yellowish ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 verj'^ oblique from costa to discal fold where it is angled acutely 

 outwards, then very oblique inwardly to inner margin and slightlj^ 

 sinuous; postmedial line double filled in with pinkish, the outer 



Fig. 1.51. — ■Stenocodia purpurascens, c?. |, 



line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, 

 oblique and minutely waved, some greyish points beyond it on costa ; 

 a terminal series of dark striae defined by a waved greyish line ; 

 cilia red with dark brown tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 fuscous, the terminal area pale purplish ; a blackish discoidal spot, 

 indistinct curved postmedial line, and terminal series of striae ; cilia 

 whitish at base, purplish at tips ; the underside white, the costal 



