Moths in the Jv'icey Collection. 1G7 



costally, bccominpf rcddrr posteriorly : an additional black 

 dot, placed on DC; tcnniiial lim; broken into dotti except 

 towards apex. 



Pujeliun ( I'ujeon), Siena Leone. 



Family NoctuidaB. 



Subfamily ( atocauxje. 



4. Acanthodica aibijilena, sp. n. 



cJ . — 16 mm. 



Head and body coloured as in the lighter examples of 

 sp/endens, Druec. 



Fore iviiK/ reddish brown mixed with grey and with 

 pur-plish brown, slightly lighter than in Sjdi'ndeiis ; the fine, 

 black, grcen-eilged lines as in that species ; white snbbasal 

 and inner-marginal spots hiiger ; reuit'orm stigma almost 

 wholly white, broad posteriorly; the spot behind it also 

 whiter than in s/dendtns, larger and less round, anteriorly 

 almost reaching M just proximal to the hinder angle of cell ; 

 proxiinidly to these, two much smaller round white spots, 

 the anterior (iudiiated, though minuter and less conspicuous, 

 in sjdcndens) placed in the cell near its end, the posterior 

 (larger and slightly more proximal) in the angle of M with 

 M* ; white inner median area clearer than in splendctis, its 

 anterior extension prolonged, almost confluent with the 

 reuit'orm ; terminal area as in splendens. 



Hind winy almost entirely glossy white, only with the 

 hair-scales and fringe of abdominal margin light brown, 

 and with a row of dark vein-dots slightly nearer the termeu 

 than iliose oi sjjlendens ; a blackish terminal line, thickening 

 ut apex and becoming obsolete just behind M'^, rea|)[)eariiig 

 as a slight spot at end of SM- ; fringe light brown, between 

 !M-' and SM- and between SM ' and tornus white. 



Fore M ing bencaih similar to that oi splendens, but lij:htcr. 

 ilind wing beneath predominantly white ; costal area mode- 

 rately irrorated with brown, with a broad dark mark from 

 anterior extremity of DC to costa, the postmediau dots com- 

 meucing at an obliipie, somewhat curved dark costal streak, 

 a small dark dash on middle of submcdian fold, the terminal 

 dark buiul (usually well developed in splendtns) almost en- 

 tirelv obsolete exie[)t at ajjcx. 



Minca, Colombia, 2000 feet (//. JI. Smith). 



5. Acanthodica sinuilinea, sp. u. 

 (^ . — ^J-6-41) mm. 



llt-ad and Ixxlv coloured as in the lighter examples of 



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