ACROEIA. — ACRORIODLS. 279 



3801. Acroria diminuta. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Xi/lophasia diminuta, Guen. Noct. i. p. 141 (1852). 

 Antachara rotwndata, Wlk. xv. 1741 (1858). 

 Luphygma lignigera, Wlk. xx.xii. 650 (1865). 



Xglophasia denterna, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aua., Het. i. p. 2(i(5 (part.), nes 

 Guen. 



Head and tegulae ochreous mixed with rufous ; palpi with blackish 

 rings at extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints ; Irons with brown bar; 

 tegulae with brown medial line ; thorax wbitish, the patagia tinged 

 with rufous at base ; pectus and legs ochreous tinged with rufous, 

 the tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen ochreous slightly tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with rufous in 

 parts: a brownish fascia on inner margin from near base where 

 it narrows to a point, to termen where it expands to submedian 

 fold, a slight black streak on it on medial area above inner margin ; 

 subbasal and antemedial lines represented by slight double brown 

 striae from costa ; orbicular obsolete; reniform pale, somewhat 

 quadrate, small; a brown striga from middle of costa ; postmedial 

 line double towards costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then reduced to black points on tbe veins, incurved below vein 4, 

 below vein 1 double filled in with whitish, some dark striae beyond 

 it lrom costa ; an oblique rufous shade from termen below apex ; 

 a whitish subterminal line below vein 2, oblique to vein 1 and 

 defined by red-brown before and beyond it, then excurved ; some 

 dark points on middle of termen ; cilia ochreous and rufous at 

 middle, dark brown towards apex and tornus. Hind wing semi- 

 h} aline white, the costa towards apex tinged with brown ; a 

 terminal series of dark striae ; cilia white, chequered with brown 

 from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Atoyac {H. H. Smith), 1 $; Guatemala, Volcan 

 d'Atitlan (Champion), 1 j; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Under- 

 wood), 1 5; Panama, Chiriqui (Chamjiion), 1 <$ , 1 5 , Grodman- 

 Salvin Cull.; Haiti (Tweedie), 1 J, 1 J, types rotuadata and 

 liynigera; St. Lucia (Cowie), 1 $; Dominica (Elliott), 1 £ ; 

 St. Vincent (H. H. Smith), 1 J; Brazil, Pernarabuco (Ridley), 

 1 5 , Hio Janeiro ( Wilson), 1 J, Sao Paulo (Z>. Jones), 1 J , 1 $f . 

 Exp. 28-34 millim. 



Genus ACRORIODES, nov. 



Type, A. diplolopha. 



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

 of head, tbe 3rd rather long ; lions smooth; eyes large, round; antennae of 

 male laminate; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax 

 with long spreading crest, the mesothorax with small paired crests, the 

 inctathorax with large rounded crest ; tibia? fringed with long hair ; abdomen 

 with series of dorsal crests, the basal crest very large and double. Fore wing 

 with the apex rather produced and acute, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 1U 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



