ACROEIA. — ACEORIODES. 279 



3891. Acroria diminuta. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Xylophasia diminuta, Guen. Noct. i. p. 141 (1852). 

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

 Liiphygma lignigera, Wlk. xxxii. 650 (18(35). 



Xylophasia denterna, Druce, iiiol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 266 (part.), nee 

 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 whitish, the patagia tinged 

 with rutous 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 exj)ands to submediau 

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

 subbasal and autemedial 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 the veins, incurved below vein 4, 

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

 it from 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 2,- Costa Riga, Candelaria Mta. {Under- 

 ivood), 1 5; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), Id, 1 $, Godman- 

 ISalvia Coll.; Haiti {Tiueedie), 1 d , 1 $ , types rotundata and 

 liijnigera ; St. Lttcia (Cowie), 1 $; Dominica (Elliott), i d ; 

 ISt. Vincent (H. M. Smith), L cJ ; I^bazil, Pernambuco (Ridlcij), 

 1 $ , Puo Janeiro ( Wilson), 1 J , Sao Paulo (D. Jones), 1 (5,1 ^ • 

 Exp. 28-34 millim. 



Genus ACRORIODES, nov. 



Type, A. diploloplia. 



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

 of head, the 3rd rather long ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna of 

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

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

 juetathorax with large rounded crest ; tibije fringed witii 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 b i'rora near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from lU 

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

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulai's ; 

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



