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LITHACODIA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
sirbena. 
carneola. 
apicosa. 
minuta. 
editha. 
henita. 
muscosula. 
veternosa. 
syggenes. 
onytes. 
penthis. 
valta. 
geoga. 
merta. 
L. sirbena Dogn. (52 d). Forewing blackish-brown, strewn lighter with a moss-green tint, the black 
transverse lines bordered with white on the averted sides; maculae as in the coniform macula likewise semicir- 
cularly surrounded by white; a subterminal white-strewn marking at the inner margin and at the costal margin. 
Hindwing lustrous grey. Argentina. 
L. carneola Guen. (== biplaga Wkr.) (52 d) has light reddish-grey forewings, dark brown in the basal 
area and in a large costal-marginal spot in the median area, with double transverse lines filled with white, 
the maculae surrounded with black; undulate line white. Hindwing light reddish-brown. Canada to New York 
and Illinois. — Larva green, subdorsally blackish with white longitudinal lines. 
L. apicosa Haw. (= nigritula Guen., undulifera. Wkr. ) (52 e). Forewing brownish-black, strewn with 
grey, reddish white at the margin, with black transverse lines bordered with whitish pink, the brown maculae 
surrounded by white; the pinkish-white undulate line is accompanied inside by a red-brown band. Hindwing 
yellowish-brown. Canada to Pennsylvania and Florida, also in Cuba. 
L„ minuta Drc. Forewing red-brown with a silvery gloss, basal area and median area at the costal 
margin black and lead-coloured, with black transverse lines, the anterior one double and filled with white; 
the maculae are surrounded with whitish, the narrow oblique ring-macula extending far below the cell; 
the strongly dentate brownish undulate line is very near to the posterior transverse line, the marginal area 
behind it is silvery white and divided into 3 spots by a red-brown marginal line which projects twice far 
inwards. Hindwing diaphanous white, margin and veins brownish. Guatemala. 
L„ editha Schs. (52 e) has a red-brown basal half and olive whitish distal area, double black anterior 
transverse lines filled with light pink, and a broad olive brown posterior transverse line which is white out¬ 
side; an olive band before the undulate line; only the ring-macula is present, forming a dark dot. Hindwing 
coppery brownish. Mexico. 
L. henita Schs. (52 e). Forewing blackish-brown, mixed with red and grey, in the marginal area whi¬ 
tish with light brown, with black transverse lines, the anterior line bordered with whitish, the posterior line 
double with small yellowish-white maculae, the reniform macula hollowed out towards the base; dusted red- 
brown before the white undulate line, with a black spot on the discal fold behind it. Hindwing dark brown. 
Brazil. 
L„ muscosula Guen. (52 e). The white forewing is dusted with olive green and strewn with black, 
white in the postmedian area, greyish-brown in the marginal area, with double transverse lines filled with 
white, the maculae surrounded with white, the ground of the cell between them is blackened, the undulate 
line white. Hindwing white, brownish inside, darker brown in the §. Canada to New York. 
L. veternosa Schs. (52 e) has blackish-brown forewings with black transverse lines bordered with red¬ 
dish-yellow; the ring-macula is a white dot, the reniform macula a brown streak bordered with white on each 
side, inside narrowly, outside broadly; the undulate line is an irregular black shadow. Hindwing greyish brown. 
Costa Rica. 
L. syggenes Hmps. (52 e) is grey on the blackish-brown forewing, mixed with ochre and red-brown, 
with double black transverse lines filled with grey and ochre, lighter white and ochre behind the exterior line 
in the lower half, with whitish maculae centred with brown, the reniform macula produced somewhat basad 
on the median vein; undulate line whitish. Hindwing yellowish-white with a central dot and a curved line 
behind it. Peru. 
L. onyfes Schs. (52 e) is somewhat similar to syggenes, but darker and without the white brightening 
behind the postmedian line; the blackish-brown forewing with a bronze gloss, the maculae feebly surrounded 
with whitish. Hindwing reddish brown. Brazil. 
L. penthis Schs. (52 e). Forewing olive brown, strewn with black, with a large whitish-ochreous inner- 
marginal basal spot; only the posterior transverse line is more distinct, double, filled with whitish, the ma¬ 
culae are yellowish-white, surrounded by black, the reniform macula below prolonged proximad; the, post- 
median area before the white undulate line is of a purer olive brown. Hindwing yellowish-brown. Mexico 
(Guadalajara). 
L. valta Schs. (52 e) is recognizable by the forewings being dusted with bluish-grey slate-colour, the 
upper part of the median area being red-brown only at the margin; anterior transverse line grey, accompa¬ 
nied outside by a black band, the posterior line double, filled with white, connected with the anterior line 
by the black band; the white maculae are centred-brown, the reniform macula below produced somewhat 
proximad; before the white undulate line there are below the costal margin black sagittate striae, the tip 
being divided by a black oblique streak. Hindwing reddish-brown. Mexico (Guadalajara). 
L. geoga Schs. (52 f) is an insignificant small grey insect strewn with blackish-brown, with fine black 
transverse lines, the posterior line being bordered outside with reddish ochre, the maculae finely surrounded 
with black; the whitish undulate line is shaded with blackish-brown inside. Hindwing reddish-brown. Mexico. 
L. merta Schs. (52 f) is the largest species, blackish-brown with a broad yellowish-white antemedian 
band extending along the inner margin to the base, with indistinct double finely dentate transverse lines; 
