ACANTHODIOA. 2oO 



7378. Acanthoiica drucei. (Plate CCIII. fig. 9.) 



Calocampa, drucei, Dogn. Le Naturaliste (2) iii. p. 67 (1889). 



J . Head and tegulse black-brown with pale brown V-shaped 

 mark above frons ; thorax red-brown, the patagia edged with 

 whitish above at extremity ; tibiae and tarsi with ochreoiis and dark 

 brown streaks ; abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface pale rufous. Pore wing red-brown suffused with black 

 except basal half of costal area and terminal half below vein 5 ; 

 subbasal and antemedial black spots on costa ; an antemedial 

 greyish patch on vein 1 ; the antemedial line obsolete except 

 towards inner margin where it is angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 outwards above margin ; a blackish point with some grey scales 

 round it below middle of cell ; a double postmedial series of black 

 points on the veins, oblique from costa to vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique, erect at inner margin ; some pale points on costa towards 

 apex ; a semicircular white patch at apex more or less tinged with 

 brown ; a series of white and black points just before termen 

 becoming dark striae on the white patch ; cilia grey and blackish. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces pale in and below cell ; 

 a curved black bar on a whitish patch above tornus ; cilia whitish 

 with a blackish line through them ; the underside whitish, the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with black, a diffused black 

 patch on middle of costa, a discoidal lunule, an irregularly waved 

 postmedial line, incurved to costa aud oblique to tornus, a diffused 

 subterminal baud expanding towards costa, a terminal series of 

 small black spots becoming a line below vein 2 and bent outwards 

 on to the cilia below vein 1. 



The ground-colour of head, thorax and fore wing may be pale 

 olive-brown more or less suffused with dark brown. 



Hah. Ecuador, Loja, 2 <S ; Peru, Huancabamba, 1 c? , Chanca- 

 mayo, 2 ^ ; Bolivia, Yungas la Paz, 1 S . Exp. 52 millim. 

 Type t d iiJ Coll. Dognin. 



7379. Acanthodica lignaris. (Plate CCIII. fig. 10.) 



Acanthodica lignaris, Sehaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 242 (1894). 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown with a few dark scales, the meta- 

 thorax with some greenish grey ; palpi brownish ochreous with dark 

 streaks at sides ; frons brownish ochreous with dark lateral bars ; 

 fore tibifB i)ule with dark streaks ; tarsi banded with blackish ; 

 abdomen red-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface pale. Fore 

 Aving red-brown irrorated with black, the costal area more ochreous 

 brown to the postmedial line ; double subbasal and antemedial 

 black striae from costa filled in with dark brown and a black ante- 

 medial line from submedian fold to inner margin, incurved at 

 vein 1 and strongly bent inwards to inner margin, a whitish patch 

 followed by some blackish before it below vein 1 ; orbicular and 



