304 NOCIDIDiE. 



very oblique from costa to vein 7, then inwardly oblique, below the 

 white fascia strong and with faint line beyond it ; the interspaces 

 of terminal area with slight brown streaks ; a fine brown terminal 

 line; cilia whitish with black lines at middle and tips. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal area suffused with reddish brown narrowing to 

 tornus; cilia white with a slight brown line through them; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 an indistinct discoidal spot and somewhat diffused curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



*471S. Amphilita punctilinea. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 32.) 

 Parvapenna punctilinea, D. Jones, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1908, p. 165. 



5 . Head and thorax ocbreous yellow with a few brown scales ; 

 p dpi fuscous at sides; tarsi banded with fuscous; abdomen pale 

 ochreous. Fore wing ochreous yellow sparsely irrorated with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line represented by black points below costa and 

 on median nervure ; a faint curved antemedial line with black 

 points on costa and the veins, slightly incurved at vein 1 ; black 

 points at origin of vein 2 and lower angle of cell ; a postmedial 

 series of black points on the veins, oblique from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia ochreous 

 mixed with fuscous and with a fine dark line near base. Hind 

 Avinu; ochreous white, the terminal half suffused with brownish 

 ochreous ; an indistinct dark discoidal spot ; cilia ochreous at base, 

 white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the 

 costa ochreous towards base, a dark discoidal spot, traces of a post- 

 medial line from costa to vein 3 and terminal series of striae. 



Hub. Brazil, Castro Parana, type t in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



Genus ACYLITA, nov. 



Type, A. sanguifusa. 



Proboscis aborted, slight; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of irons, the 3rd short ; irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male laminate and minutely ciiinted ; thorax smoothly clothed with 

 hair and scales and without crests ; tibia? slightly fringed with hair, the spurs 

 very long; build slender; abdomeu without crests. Fore wing long and 

 narrow, the apex produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; fi from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; a fringe of 

 Ion 0, hair from below base of costa on underside; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell to near 

 extremity. 



A. Fore wing more or less strongly tinged with pink. 



a. Fore wing with rufous fascia from base to apex defined by 



white streaks cara. 



b. Fore wing without rufous fascia. 



a 1 . Fore wing suffused with pale pink and with slight dark 



shade- from base to apex and on inner area elongata. 



