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St'iiFAMiLV F.NXO.MINAE. 

 Acrotomodes gen. nov. 



Foremnga : elongate ; costa sinuous in ? , being concave before apex ; almost 

 straight in ^ ; apex in ? produced, in S nearly rectangular ; liindmargin bowed, 

 more strongly in ?, where it is also indented below apex; anal angle well marked. 



Hindwings: triangular, both angles well marked, and the hindmargin hardly 

 curved. 



Antennae pectinated in both sexes, less strongly in tlio ? ; forehead flat: palpi 

 short, upcurved close in front of face; tongue present ; liind tibiae of S slightly 

 thickened, with two jiairs of uneven spurs. 



Type : Acrotoniodes kepaticata \\'arr. 



This genus is manifestly akin to Hygrochrama H.8. 



Acrotomodes hepaticata sp. nov. 



Forewhigs : hoary grey, with the lines and markings dull liver-colour, the whole 

 irregularly peppered with blackish dots; first line from a little before the middle 

 of costa, angulated outwards on the subcostal, then running obliquely inwards and 

 sinuate to the inner margin just before the middle ; it is preceded by a parallel 

 thick brownish fascia; second line similar, just beyond the middle, running parallel 

 to the first ; mai-ginal area irregularly filled up with brownish clouds on the paler 

 ground-colour, the submarginal line appearing as a slightly glossy sinuate pale 

 fascia, becoming almost white at apex, before which is a dull brownisli triangle ; 

 fringe liver-brown. 



Hindwings: like forewings, the two lines reproduced, the first near the base, the 

 second in the centre. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey ; face and palpi reddish. Underside 

 reddish cinereous, much mottled with coarse blackish freckles, and sufl'used in parts 

 with whitish ; a broad reddish brown line from apex of forewings to innei margin 

 at three-fourths, continued, slightly bent, across hindwing, parallel to hindmargin. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One ? from S. Paolo. 



Acrotomodes puma sp. nov. 



Foreioings: pale dull flesh-colom-, tinged with olive, and freckled with white 

 scales; first line very indistinct, about the midiUe; at first obliijue outwai'ds, then 

 sinuous inwards, olive-brown ; second line brown, fine and distinct, from two-thirds 

 of inner margin straight towards apex, before which it is angulated and retracted 

 to a brown costal blotch; this line is marked l)_v small black dashes on the veins- 

 sulimarginal line indicated only by some faint olive-brown clouds. 



Uiiuhiiiiga : darker than forewings, with the second line continued in a sinuous 

 course across their centre ; fringes darker. 



Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings, the former becoming whitLsh in 

 front ; vertex and shaft of autennii* pure white ; face, palpi, and pectinations of 

 antennae reddish brown. Underside ochreous fawn-colour, the forewings with a 

 reddish brown line from just before apex to the inner margin at two-tliirds. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One S from the Amazons, in the Felder collection. 



