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blackish medial line defined on inner side by greenish grej- ; a 

 small white spot in lower part of cell towards extremitj^ with 

 blackish striga above it from costa ; reniform whitish tinged 

 with brown, constricted at middle and connected with the costa 

 by a grey bar defined by dark striae ; a round white spot defined 

 by brown and with some fulvous in its upper part below end of 

 cell ; postmedial line black defined on outer side by greenish grey, 

 verj' slightly excurved from costa to vein 3 ; the inner area white 

 from the medial to the postmedial line, before which it extends to 

 vein 3 and with blackish points at middle on vein 1 and inner 

 margin ; some whitish points on postmedial part of costa ; a white 

 subterminal band from below vein 3 to inner margin ; a round 

 apical white patch with a series of black points defined on inner 

 side by white before termen from it to inner margin ; a fine dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with red- 

 brown, the veins and marginal areas red-brown ; a postmedial 

 series of minute dark streaks on the veins ; an oblique whitish 

 bar from vein 1 to tornus ; cilia white at base ; the underside with 

 the costal area white irrorated with brown, a difi'used dark jiatch 

 at middle of costal area, oblique postmedial bar followed by a 

 series of points on the veins, and some dark suffusion at apex. 



Ilab. Panama., Chiriqui {Champioix), 3 S type; Ecuador, Sara- 

 yacu (BucJdei/), 1 (S , Chig\imdti(BucJde7j), I (S , Loja, 3 c? . E,vp. 

 50 millim. 



7373. Acanthodica penicilla. 



Agrotis penicUlum, Feld, Eeis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 33 (1874). 

 AcantJiodica pamela, Scliaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 105 (1906). 



cJ . Head, tegulae, and prothorax rufous, the rest of thorax grey- 

 white ; palpi pale brownish, dark above ; frons with lateral blackish 

 bars ; pectus and legs rufous mixed with black-brown, the fore 

 tibiae whitish with a dark line at middle ; abdomen pale red- 

 brown, the extremity whitish. Eore wing brownish grey, striated 

 and in parts suffused with brown, some green on median nervure 

 and subterminal area ; subbasal black striae from costa and sub- 

 median fold with a grey patch beyond them with small black spot 

 on its outer edge above the subraedian fold ; antemedial line black 

 defined on inner side by grey at costa, erect and slightly sinuous ; 

 orbicular with ill-defined grey-M^hite annulus constricted at middle ; 

 reniform with ill-defined grey-white annulus, elliptical, a black 

 striga above it from costa defined on each side by grey ; a round 

 grey -white spot defined on outer side by blackish below end of 

 cell; a slight curved dark shade beyond the cell ; postmedial line 

 black, somewhat oblique and slightly sinuous from below costa to 

 discal fold ; some pale points on postmedial part of costa ; a faint 

 greenish grey subterminal shade ; a round white apical spot with 

 series of black points defined on inner side by whitish from it to 

 inner margin before termen ; cilia with a series of blackish spots 

 at base. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins brown ; the 

 inner area tinged with red-bi'own ; a slight oblique red-brown 



