250 



NOCTUID^. 



h-. Fore wing without green on median nervure oi* sub- 

 terminal area. 

 cfl. Fore wing with the inner medial area dark purp'e- 



brown grandis. 



P. Fore wing with the inner medial area not purple- 

 brown emittens. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line indistinctly double, bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below discal fold. 

 a. Fore wing with pale apical patch. 



a'. Fore wing with the apical patch white and wedge- 

 shaped drucei. 



h\ Fore wing with the apical patch pale brownish and 



rounded lignaris. 



c^. Fore wing with the apical patch pale brownish and 

 shading off to pale brownish and white points on 



termen fosteri. 



h. Fore wing without pale apical patch. 



a}. Hind wing with the veins, inner area, and termen 



suffused with brown xylinoides. 



b^ . Hind wing with the veins, inner area, and termen 



white chiripa. 



7372. Acantliodica splendens. 



Aqrotis splendens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 286, pi. xxvii. f. 15 



■(1889). 

 Magusa apicimacida, Maassen, Stiibel's Eeise, p. 147, pi. vii. f. 2 (1890). 



S • Head, tegulte, and prothorax rufous, the rest of thorax grey- 

 white with the upper edge and tips of patagia dark brown, the 

 metathorax with some brown ; antennae, palpi, frons, pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen red-brown. Fore wing reddish brown mixed with 



Fig. 32. — Acanthodka splendens, S • \- 



grej^ and mottled and striated with darker brown ; double subbasal 

 blackish striae from costa and a small black spot below the cell 

 defined on outer side and below by a semicircular wliite mark ; 

 an antemedial white spot on inner margin ; a slight sinuous 



