384 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 50. 



ACMANA, ne'w genus. 



Female. — Palpi long, porrect; second joint broadly fringed above; 

 third joint acuminate about one-third the length of second. Anten- 

 nae pubescent cihate. Abdomen long and slender. Fore wings: 

 Apex very acute; outer margin straight, obhque; vein 3 well before 

 lower angle; 4 and 5 from lower angle; 6 near upper angle; 7, 8 

 and 9, 10 from areole; 11 free. Hind wings: Costal margin straight; 

 outer margin straight from below apex to vein 2, then truncate; 

 veins 3 and 4, and 6 and 7 stalked; 5 from lower angle. 



Type of genus. — Herminia? moeonalis Walker.^ 



ACMANA ? APICIOIDES, new species. 



Female. — Body and fore wings bone color tinged with ocherous 

 brown; fringe of palpi tipped with white. Fore wings : Some slightly 

 darker irrorations; hues all inbcnt from costa, straight; a faint 

 double antemedial line, the space between from cell to inner margin 

 slightly whitish; two dark brown round spots on discocellular; 

 postmedial browner; a whitish outer line outwardly darker shaded; 

 a white sub terminal line dark edged; marginal points connected by 

 a fine undulating line. Hind wings white; lines contmued from fore 

 wings except antemedial; the postmedial and outer lines dark brown, 

 followed by mottling-like ground color of fore wing but not reaching 

 costa or inner margin, except at termen. "V^ings below bone color 

 irrorated and tinged with light brown; postmedial and outer Hnes 

 less distinct, the former outwardly punctiform on fore wings, forming 

 fuscous spots toward apex; inner margin white; terminal points as 

 above. 



Expanse. — 29 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro Parana, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19869, U.S.N.M. 



In this species veins 3, 4, 5 on hind wings are equally apart. 



ACMANA ? PAULINA, new species. 



Female. — Body and wings whitish brown. Fore wings: An olive 

 brown shade along subcostal from base to apex; lines brown; ante- 

 medial fine, outcurved across cell and inbent; two brown points on 

 discocellular; postmedial fine, inbcnt, slightly outcurved on costa; 

 a similar outer line, darker, inwardly edged with white, outwardly 

 shaded with olive brown, and with trigonate small spots on veins; a 

 dark brown marginal lunular line, more heavily marked on inter- 

 spaces; cilia whitish tipped with fuscous brown. Hind wings like 

 fore wings, but no antemedial line, and the wing whiter shaded to 

 outer line. Fore wings below: Inner area gray, wing otherwise 



I Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 19, 1859, p. 857. 



