276 NOCTUID^. 



Genus ACRORIA. 



J vpe. 



• Acroria, Wlk. xv. 1730 (1858) terms. 



Aniachara,\\\k. xv. 1740 (1858) diminuta. 



Alibama, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 43 (1888) terens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long; frons smooth, 

 almost naked ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales and with double ridge-like crest; tibia? moderately fringed 

 with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen crenulate, excised towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper an^le : 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with well-developed claviform connected by a streak 



with postmedial line terens, 



13. Fore wing witli the claviform absent. 



a. Underside of fore wing of male thickly clothed with down- 



turned brown scales denterna. 



b. Underside of fore wing smoothly scaled. 



a}. Fore wing with wedge-shaped ocbreous mark beyond 

 subterminal line in submedian interspace extending to 

 termen mexicana. 



b x . Fore wing with oblique ochreous strigaon subterminal line 



in submedian interspace diminuta. 



388S. Acroria terens. 



Hadena terens, Wlk. xi. 586 (1857). 

 Xylina infensa, Wlk. xi. pp. <>28, 761 (1857). 

 Acroria villipes, Wlk. xv. 1730 (1858). 



Alabama pulchm, Mosch. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 44, pi. f. 27 (1888). 

 Darqida niphanda, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 270, pi. 26. f. 14 

 (1889), &ii. p. 475. 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly tinged with fuscous ; palpi in 

 front and lower part of frons paler ; tegulse with black medial line ; 

 patagia with black streak near upper edge ; tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen greyish suffused with reddish brown and fuscous. 

 Fore wing red-brown slightly suffused with fuscous, the veins 

 with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by slight 

 double dark striae from costa and single striga from cell ; a black 

 streak above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 double at costa, then oblique, sinuous, acutely angled outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform denned by black, extending to cell, 

 acute at extremity and with black streak from it to postmedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round, 

 the latter large, rounded, its outer edge excised and with two 

 pale spots on it, its centre darker ; a diffused oblique striga 

 from middle of costa to reniform ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, excurved to 

 vein 5, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa ; an 

 indistinct pale subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7, 



