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brown with black-brown streaks ; pectns black-brown in front ; 

 legs ocbreous brown, the tibiae banded with black-brown, the tarsi 

 black-brown with pale rings ; abdomen black-brown, the extremity 

 pale ochreous. Fore wing pale grey-brown mottled with rather 

 darker brown and irrorated with a few black scales, some green on 

 median nervure and subterminal area ; a subbasal black bar from 

 costa with a somewhat tiilobate mark faintly defined by black 

 beyond it in and below the cell ; antemedial line double, greyish, 

 the inner line with black points on costa and median nervure, the 

 outer with black bar from costa, then slightly defined on outer 

 side by black, erect and somewhat sinuous ; the inner medial area 

 deep purple-brown from before the antemedial to the postmedial 

 line, indented by a grey-brown spot slightly defined by black 

 below end of cell ; orbicular very faintly defined by grey, the 

 reniform with faint grey annulus slightly defined by black, both 

 somewhat constricted at middle and large ; a black bar from costa 

 to the reniform ; postmedial line black defined on outer side by 

 purple-brown, slightly excurved below costa, then erect, very slightly 

 sinuous and interrupted by grey points at veins 5, 3, 1 ; a small 

 blackish spot beyond it at vein 5 ; a black-brown patch on costal 

 area with grey point on costa before the faint ytale subterminal 

 line, excurved below vein 7 and waved below vein 5, a small 

 dentate black mark on it below vein 7, some brown beyond it at 

 middle, and brown mottling towards tornus ; a series of black 

 poinds before termen except towards apex ; a terminal series of 

 slight black striae; cilia with a series of small dark spots. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white, the veins brownish, the inner area clothed 

 with red-brown hair ; a postmedial series of minute black streaks 

 on veins 5 to 1 ; a terminal blnck-brown line ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with black-brown, an angled bar from 

 middle of costa, oblique postmedial bar followed by short black 

 streaks on the veins, the terminal line lunulate from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Colombia, Minca (ZT. H. Smith), type t (5 in Coll. Druce. 

 Exj^y. 52 millim. 



*7376. Acanthodica grandis. (Plate CCIII. fig. 7.) 



AcanthoJica c/randis, Snhaus, Trans. Am. Eut. Soo. xsi. p. 241 (1894). 



$ . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown, the tegulae and 

 prothorax red-brown, the patagia with some blackish scales 

 towards tips ; 2nd joint of palpi with blackish streaks ; frons with 

 dark bars at middle and above ; fore tibiae with blackish striae, the 

 mid and bind tibiae with blackish bands, the tarsi streaked with 

 blackish ; abdomen grey sufi'used with brown, the ventral surface 

 purplish brown towards base, ochreous white towards extremity. 

 Fore wing grey tinged afnd striated with brown, the inner half of 

 medial area purnle-brown ; a small brown patch at base defined 

 by a curved dark line from costa to vein 1 : subbasal line repre- 

 sented by black striae from costa and submedian fold, the latter 



