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reniform with faint ochreous brown annuli, the latter somewhat 

 constricted at middle ; a faint ochreons brown spot with blackish 

 centre below origin of vein 2 ; an oblique dark striga from middle 

 of costa ; postmedial line with double blackish striae from costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, then double, somewhat pnnctiform, 

 and obliquely curved to inner margin ; some pale points on post- 

 medial part of costa ; a pale apical spot with rufous centre ; a 

 series of black points defined on inner side by white before termen 

 and a bar in submedian interspace ; cilia with a series of slight 

 blackish spots near base. Hind wing red-brown, the interspaces 

 rather paler to beyond middle ; a subterminal black bar defined on 

 each side by white below vein 1 ; a dark terminal line slightly 

 defined on inner side by whitish ; cilia white with a brown line 

 through them almost obsolete at middle, wholly brown towards 

 tornus ; the underside white irrorated with black-brown except on 

 inner area, a dark spot near base of costa, dark discoidal lunule 

 with dark mark above it, postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then obsolescent with dark points at the veins, sinuous, and 

 angled inwards at discal fold, a terminal series of black lunules 

 and some dark suffusion on apical part of terminal area. 



Hah. Brazil, Casa Branca, 1 S , Castro Paraiia {B. Jones), 2 S ; 

 Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 2 S • Exp. 38-48 millim. 



7380. Acanthodica fosteri, n. sp. (Plate CCIII. fig. 11.) 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some ochreous, the 

 prothoracic crest darker, the metathorax with white spots ; palpi 

 greyish ochreous with dark streaks ; frons with dark lateral bars ; 

 legs pale, streaked with brown ; abdomen red-brown, the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface towards extremity reddish ochreous. 

 Pore wing red-brov/n irrorated with a few ochreous scales, the 

 costal area reddish ochreous from the subbasal to the postmedial 

 line ; double subbasal black striae from costa ; double curved ante- 

 medial black striae from costa and a line on inner area incurved at 

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

 before it below vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform with reddish 

 ochreous annuli, the former round, the latter somewhat constricted 

 at middle ; a small reddish ochreous annulus below end of cell and 

 an oblique waved brown striga from middle of costa ; postmedial 

 line with double dark striae from costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then indistinctly double with slight black points at the veins, 

 oblique below discal fold ; some grey points on postmedial part of 

 costa ; a faint obliquely curved ochreous subterminal line from 

 discal to submedian folds with slight blackish streaks before it on 

 the veins ; a greyish apical patch shading off to a terminal series 

 of minute greyish spots ; a series of black striae before termen with 

 white points on their inner side ; cilia greyish at tips. Hind 

 wing red-brown ; two subterminal black striae on vein 1 defined 

 on inner sides by white ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base and 



