. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 520 NOCTTJID^. latter narrow above, conical below ; postmedial line double, filled in with whitish towards costa and inner margin, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, traces of white points beyond it on costa and a small spot before apex ; subtermiual line represented by a faint dark shade incurved in submedian interspace. Hind wing cupreous red-brown ; the cilia with a whitish line at base ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated and suffused with red-brown, a slight dark discoidal l
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 520 NOCTTJID^. latter narrow above, conical below ; postmedial line double, filled in with whitish towards costa and inner margin, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, traces of white points beyond it on costa and a small spot before apex ; subtermiual line represented by a faint dark shade incurved in submedian interspace. Hind wing cupreous red-brown ; the cilia with a whitish line at base ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated and suffused with red-brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule. Hah. Guatemala, Vera Paz {Champion), 3 $ type, Godman- Salvin Coll. Exp. 30 millim. 5777. Lithacodia bellicula. Lithacodia hellicula, Hijbn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. p. 18. ff. 85, 86 (1818); Smith, Cat. Moct. N. Am. p. 309. Hydrelia semichalcea, Wlk. xxxiii. 797 (1865). Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with white, the last with the crests on 3rd and 4th segments tipped with black. Fore wing rufous mixed with grey, some bright rufous above end of cell and below the cell before the postmedial line, the postmedial area yellowish except towards costa ; antemedial line indistinct, rufous, waved, erect ; orbicular with faint whitish annulus, round; the reniform represented by a whitish discoidal striga; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with white, slightly bent outwards below costa, strongly excurved to vein 4, then angled inwards in submedian fold and oblique to inner margin, some whitish points. F'.g. 150.—Lithacodia hellicula, J. \. beyond it on costa; subterminal line yellowish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine blackish terminal line ; cilia grey with a dark line through them. Hind wing cupreous brown, the cilia grey with a brown line through them; the underside grey irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged with cupreous red, a black discoid? point and reddish postmedial line angled outwards beyond the cell. Hah. Canada, Renfre
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