276 NOCTtriD^. 



Genus ACRORIA. 



i ype. 



. Acroria, Wlk.xy. 17 SO (185S) Urens. 



Ant achar a, Wl'k. xv. 1740 (1858) dimi?mia. 



yW«6ama, Moscbl. Abh. Senck. G-es. xir. p. 43 (1888) ie7'ens. 



Proboscis fully deTeloped ; 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 ; anteimse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales and with double ridge-like crest; tibi^B 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 8 

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

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of diseocellulars ; 6 , 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



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



with postmedial line tcvens. 



E. Fore wing with the claviform absent. 



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

 turned brown scales denterna. 



h. Underside of fore wing smoothly scaled. 



«\ Fore wing with wedge-shaped ocbreous mark beyond 

 subterminal line in submedian interspace extending to 



termen onexicana. 



b^. Fore wing with oblique ochreous striga on subterminal line 



in submedian interspace diminuta. 



8888, Acroria terens. 



Hadena terens, Wlk. xi. 686 (1857). 

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

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



Alabama jmlclira, Mosch. Abb. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 44, pi. f, 27 (1888). 

 Dargida nijihanda, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 270, pi. 26. f. 14 

 (1889), &ii. p. 476. 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly tinged with fuscoua ; 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 defined 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, rotmded, 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, 



