
DIATAGA.—ACROLOPHUS. 375 
1. Diataga leptosceles, sp.n. (Tab. X. fig. 26.) 
Antennae pale buff-ochreous. Palpi pale buff-ochreous, shaded on their outer side with umber-brown, except 
on the terminal joint. Head pale buff-ochreous. Yhoraa umber-brown, with some paler ochreous 
scaling. Forewings umber-brown, transversely speckled with darker scales, leaving an elongate pale 
ochreous patch on the middle of the costa, and a second one, situated beyond the raised area of the 
costa, sometimes broken on its outer half—there is also a small ochreous spot before the apex; cilia 
with a pale ochreous line along their base, profusely shaded with umber-brown. E£yp. al. 18-33 mm. 
Hindwings greyish brown, with a slight aeneous tinge, contrasting slightly with the forewings, and in 
some lights exhibiting a tendency to purple; cilia rather shining, stone-grey. Abdomen umber-brown. 
_ Legs whitish ochreous, the tibiae umber-brown along their upper and under sides, the spurs also touched 
with umber-brown outwardly. 
Type & (6451); 2 (4620) Jalapa, Mus. Wlsm. BM. [P77 (941 Wlsm. Det. 1894) Mus. J. de Joannis ; 
(6075 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. AMERICA, C-S-I. Central America—Mexico: VERA cruz: Jalapa, 4500 ft., 
1887 (W. Schaus). South America—Frexco Guiana: St. Lawrence, Rio Maroni, XI. 
1906 (#. Le Moult)—Ecvapor (Mus. Joannis). West Indies—Trinipap: VI. 1905 
(A. Busch). Eight specimens. 
Fam. 21. ACROLOPHIDAE. 
ACROLOPHUS Poey. 
= Anapnora Clms.; (tAwornora Krft.) ; =Dercuts Wkr.; =Hisrra Wkr.; =Trrasta Wkr.; 
=§Eppara Wkr.; =Bazirna Wkr.; =Tacnasarna Wkr.; =§ Huryeca Grt.; =Evrepisre Wlsm. , 
= Psgupoconcuyuis Wlsm.; = Neoxtorpaus Wlsm.; =Hyprocitopus Wlsm. (+Hyeocorrevs Dyar) ; 
=TuysanosceLis Wlsm. (+ Tuysavosxetis Wism.; +THysanosepes Druce); = AwxistroPHoRvs 
Wlsm.; =Carnocrenes Wlsm.; =Fetprr1a Wism.; =Oxrrnoropuus Wism.; = PseupANAPHORA 
Wlsm.; =Homonymus Wlsm.; =Sapinetna Kby.; =Aropocera Wlsm.; = PiLanopHora 
Wism. 
Type 1: Acrolophus vitellus Poey (Poey 1832). 
Acrotopuus Poey Cent. Lp. Cuba [pp. 51-3 no. 20 Pl. 20] (1832); F. & R. Reise Nov. Zool-Lp. 
2 Pf. 189-35 (1875); Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 197 (1877); Gndl. Contr. Ent. Cuba 1 
440 (1881) ; Mschlr. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 31: 1881 438 sp. 138 Pf. 18°46 (1882); Wlsm.- 
Tr, Am. Ent. Soc. 10 167-9 (1882): Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1887 137-8, 140-1, 147-54 
Pf. 7°5-10 (1887); Btmlr. Ent. Am. 3 1389-40 (1887) ; Frnld. Ent. Am. 3 196 (1887) ; 
Btmlr. Ent. Am. 4 29 (1888); Riley US. Dp. Agr. (Div. Ent.) Ins. Life 1 195 (1888); 
Mschlr. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. 16 336 sp. 595-6, 354 no. 402 sp. 908-9 (1890) ; Riley, Smith’s 
List Lp. Bor-Am. 94-5 sp. 5047-58 (1891); Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 512-4, 544 
no. 29 sp. 50-5 Pf. 41° 11-18 (1892): 1897 173-4 no. 115 sp. 294-800 (1897) ; Dyar Can. 
Ent. 32 306, 308-9 (1900); Druce Ann-Mag. NH. (7 s.) 7 441-2 (1901); Dyar Bull. US. 
Nat. Mus. 52 578 sp. 6584-9 (1902); Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 186-7 (1903); Krft., 
Smith’s Check-List Lp. Bor-Am. 124 sp. 7124-9 (1903) ; Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 
11:1909 186-7 (1909): Rp. Laguna Mar-Lab. 1 168-9 (1912): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 
14:1912 184-5, 222-4 (1912); Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1918 191-9 (1913) ; Busck Ins. 
Insc. Mens. 1 142-3 (1918): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 47 66-7 (1914). 
Poey wrote [Cent. Lp. Cuba (pp. 52-8) (1832)] “C’est pour Hiibner le genre Pinaris, que 
