
ACROLOPHTS. 395 
46. Acrolophus synapta, sp. n., Drnt. 
Antennae 3 simple, fawn-ochreous. Palpi g recurved, reaching beyond the middle of the thorax, densely 
pilose and tulted; 92 porrect, densely hairy; fawn-ochreous, with some admixture of fuscous. Head 
and Thorax fawn-ochreous, mixed with fuscous, Forewings fawn-ochreous, with oblique brownish 
fuscous strigulae, arising from costal spots, and with some fuscous suffusion in the cell, connected with 
two trapezvidal patches in the fold, one below the end of the cell, the other toward the base; cilia 
fawn-ochreous, with a darker line running through them. Exp. al. 23-8 mm. Hindwinys brownish 
fuscous; cilia with a pale line along their base. Abdomen fuscous: genitalia, uncus double, triangular, 
outer margin excavate, reaching beyond the rather broad eultrate claspers. Legs fawn-ochreous. 
Type 3 (67037); Q (6738) Teapa, Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Sulv. Coll.) BM. ( PT. (67040-1) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Mexico: taBasco: Teapa, IL. (//. H. Smith). Five specimens. 
The 2 is larger and somewhat darker than the ¢; FW. 8-9 stalked in both 
SEXCS. 
47. Acrolophus maculisecta Busck. 
Acrolophus maculisecta Busck Ins. Insc. Mens. 1 143 1913)". 
Type S (16667) US. Nat. Mus. 
Hab. Mexico’: vera crtz': Misantla, VIII. (2. Afdller) *. 
48. Acrolophus fumida, sp. n. 
Antennae serrate and minutely ciliate; brownish cinereous. Paipi overarching to the back of the thorax, 
densely clothed, the scales increasing in length to the ends of the joints; smoky fuscous, with a slight 
purplish tinge. Head and Thora smoky fuscous, with a slight purplish tinge. Furewings smoky 
fuscous, with a slight purplish tinge, the markings entirely obliterated by a somewhat darker shade 
along the cell, the anteterminal patch reduced to a small spot, the usual costal strigulae scarcely traceable ; 
cilia brownish cinereous, with a fuscous marginal shade along their base, less intensely reduplicated on 
their middle. xp. «/, 28-34 mm. Lindwings brownish fuscous; cilia paler, shaded along their middle. 
Abdomen somewhat pilose, greyish fuscous: genitalia, uncus bent, not angulated, double; claspers 
dilated posteriorly, the abruptly truncate terminal margin slightly convex. Legs brownish cinereous, 
with densely packed, long, appressed scales. 
Type 3 (67047); 2 (67048) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [ P77. (67049-50) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Costa Rica: Candelaria Mrs. (C. A. Underwood). Four specimens. 
The @ has hairy porrect palpi, reaching to twice the length of the head beyond it. 
49. Acrolophus prepodes, sp. n. 
Antennae simple, minutely ciliate ; yellowish brown. Palpi overarching the thorax, densely clothed through- 
out ; brownish cinereous, sprinkled with fuscous, the points of the hair-scales on the terminal joints pale 
cinereous. Head and Thorax brownish cisereous, mixed with fuscous. Forewings pale brownish 
cinereous, sparsely dusted with fuscous, the margins narrowly shaded with fuscous throughout, except 
for some pale interruptions along the outer half of the costa; the usual discal and plical patches are 
scarcely indicated by fuscous shading, but the one at the end of the cell is very dark, almost black, 
placed transversely and somewhat oblique, a line of diffused similar dark scales connecting it with the 
tornus; cilia brownish cinereous, much shaded with fuscous, but without any defined pale or dark lines. 
Exp. al. 26 mm. Hindwings reddish brown; cilia rather paler. Abdomen reddish brown, somewhat 
hairy, the segments marked by pale brownish cinereous lines: genitalia, uncus double, gently curved to 
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