278 NOCTTJID.n;. 



vein 1, some black-brown strife beyond it from costa ; an oblique 

 brown shade from termen below apex followed by traces of a 

 subterminal line which between vein 3 and submedian fold is 

 distinct, whitish, oblique, irregiilar and defined by brown suffusion 

 before and beyond it, with slight black streaks from it to termen 

 above and below submedian fold ; some dark points on middle 

 of termen ; cilia chequered ochreous and brownish. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown ; 

 cilia white tinged with brown in parts. Underside of fore wing 

 with the cell clothed with downturned brown hair, a diffused pale 

 mark at upper angle of cell, the area beyond the cell rufous ; hind 

 Aving with the costal area irrorated with red-brown, traces of a 

 curved postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



Hah. Brazil, Organ Mts., Tijuca {Wagner), 1 5, E,io Janeiro 

 (Wilson), 1 (S ; Pakagtjay, Sapucay {Poster), 1 J. i/V/j. 40— i2 

 millim. 



3890, Acroria mexicana, n. sp. (Plate CXXIX, fig. 4.) 



Xylophasia denterna, Driice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 266 (part.), nee 

 Guen. 



S . Head and tegulse ochreous mixed with rufous ; frons with 

 brown bar ; tegulse with brown medial line ; thorax ochreous 

 with diffused rufous dorsal fascia; pectus and legs ochreous tinged 

 with rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the crests 

 red-brown. Pore wing pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 a brown fascia on inner margin from near base where it narrows 

 to a point, to termen where it e:spands to submedian fold with a 

 slight blackish streak on it on medial area above inner margin ; 

 subbasal and antemedial lines represented by faint double brown 

 striae from costa ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, pale, the 

 former round, the latter rather quadrate ; postmedial line double 

 towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then almost obsolete, 

 dentate and produced to black points on the veins, incurved below 

 vein 4 and below vein 1 double filled in with whitish, some dark 

 striae beyond it from costa ; an oblique red-brown shade from 

 termen below apex ; an oblique whitish streak from termen at 

 vein 2 to postmedial line at vein 1, defined by dark brown above 

 and with a slight streak from it to termen below submedian fold ; 

 some dark points on middle of termen ; cilia chequered red-brown 

 and ochreous, below vein 3 dark brown with a pale line at base. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, the apical area and inner margin 

 tinged with brown ; a series of slight brown terminal lunules from 

 apex to vein 2; cilia white with some brown points; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Mexico, Jaiapa {Trvjillo), 2 c? type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exi^. 36 millim. 



