LITHOSIAD.E CTENUCHIDiE- 305 



CXCIII. Genus LITHOSIA. Fab. 



(427) 1. * Lithosia miniata. Red-striped Lithosia. 



L. ( miniata) miniata ; alis primoribus vittis tribits ; posticis apice abdomineque medio, schislicoloribus. 



Red-striped Lithosia, miniatous ; primary wings with three stripes ; secondary at the apex, and abdomen in the middle, 

 slate-coloured. 



Expansion of the wings H inch. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Head, trunk, base and apex of the abdomen, costal and anal margin, mesal forked stripe of the 

 primary wings, and base of the secondary, miniatous or of the colour of red lead ; two longitudinal 

 stripes and the space between the apical fork of the primaries, apex of the secondaries, and middle 

 of the abdomen, slate-coloured. 



Family CTENUCHIDJE. Ctenuchidans. 



CXCIV. * Genus CTENUCHA. Kirb. 



Palpi longer than the head, three-jointed: joints covered with shortish scales, first and second equal 



in size and length, the third a little shorter and small, but not minute. 

 Antennce of both sexes bipectinate, but the teeth are very long in the male. 

 Legs, posterior tibice with a pair of spurs in the middle as well as at the apex. 

 Wings depressed: primaries incumbent; oblong, apical and anal angles rounded: secondaries plicatile. 

 Anus tufted. 



(428) 1. * Ctenucha Latreillana. LatreiUian Ctenucha. 



C. ( LatreillanaJ fusca, capite, alarumque primorum humeris, aurantiis ; trunco cyaneo ,- antennis nigris. 



LatreiUian Ctenucha, brown ; with the head, and the shoulders of the primary wings, orange ; the trunk cyaneous ; and the 

 antennse black. 



Expansion of the wings 2^ inches. 



Taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada, and Dr. Mac Culloch in Nova Scotia. 



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