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Sub-fam. Acrontctinae. 

 Trachea viridirena, n. sp. 



(J. Palpi light brown, a fuscous shade at side of second joint ; legs 

 reddish brown ; frons yellowish brown ; vertex of head, tegulae and 

 thorax light brown mixed with dark brown and grey ; patagia light 

 purplish brown with a black streak followed by purplish brown 

 fringe on inner side ; abdomen brown. Forewings purplish brown ; 

 a pale green streak at base of cell ; a black streak above inner 

 margin from near base to antemedial line ; antemedial line gemin- 

 ate, straight from costa to median nervure, excurved to vein 1, 

 where it is sharply angled inwards, then excurved to inner margin, 

 the inner member diffused brown, the outer black ; postmedial line 

 very wavy, excurved from costa to vein 5, where it is slightly angled 

 outwards, then slightly incurved to vein 3, excurved to submedian 

 fold and incurved to inner margin ; a subterminal line of indistinct 

 diffused dark spots, large and distinct below vein 2 ; claviform 

 black ; orbicular and reniform pale olive green suffused with brown 

 and slightly defined by black ; a dark medial shade through reni- 

 form to postmedial line ; space between claviform and antemedial 

 and between orbicular and antemedial fuscous ; an indistinct green 

 shade above vein 8 ; terminal line dark brown, whitish points at end 

 of veins ; cilia dark brown with lighter line at base. Hindwings 

 white thickly irrorated with brown on costal area, apex, veins and 

 termen. Underside white, suffused with ochreous on costal and 

 brown on terminal areas. 



9 similar, but hindwings darker and the underside more heavily 

 suffused with brown. 



Expanse 29 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Paran4, Brazil. 



Macapta lydia, n. sp. 



^ . Palpi, legs and antennae brown ; pectus ochreous ; head red 

 brown ; tegulae red brown mixed with yellow posteriorly ; thorax 

 red brown mixed with yellow, a white dorsal spot at base ; abdomen 

 light brown with indistinct darker transverse bands ; anal tuft 

 purplish. Forewings dull yellow thickly irrorated with red and 

 purplish brown ; a dark subbasal line ; antemedial line diffused 

 purplish brown, wavy, angled outwards on subcostal, inwards in 

 cell, outwards on median nervure, inwards on vein 1, then strongly 

 excurved to inner margin, a yellow space follows the line across 

 median fold; postmedial broad, geminate, filled in with yellow 

 irrorated with red, excurved at vein 5, then incurved to inner 

 margin, the inner member diffused purplish brown, outer member 



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