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whitish tips except towards apex and tornus ; the uuderside grey- 

 white irrorated with black-brown, the iuuer area suffused with 

 brown, a dark discoidal lunule connected with an oblique bar from 

 costa, postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then sinuous and 

 strongly incurved at discal fold, an irregular rather maculate black- 

 brown subterminai band. 



Hah. Peku, 1 S ; Paraguat, Sapucay (Foster), 12 cj" type. 

 Exp. 42-46 millim. 



7381. Acanthodica xylinoides. (Plate CCIII. fig. 12.) 



Acanihodica xylinoides, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 242 (1894). 



(S . Head and thorax ochreous brown mixed with red-brown 

 and some dark brown ; palpi pale with dark streaks at sides ; 

 frons with lateral dark bars ; legs pale with dark streaks ; 

 abdomen reddish brown, the ventral surface paler. Pore wing 

 ochreous brown suffused with red-brown and with slight dark 

 irroration, the inner area browner ; a subbasal blackish spot on 

 costa and small spot below the cell ; double oblique antemedial 

 blackish bars from costa and an indistinct double sinuous line 

 from cell to inner margin, angled inwards at vein 1 and bent 

 inwards to inner margin ; reniform with faint pale anmilus, an 

 oblique brown striga above it from costa; a pale round spot defined 

 by brown below end of cell ; postmedial line with double dark 

 striae from costa, bent outwards below costa, then indistinctly 

 double, oblique and slightly sinuous below discal fold ; the apical 

 part of costal area with some dark suffusion and small pale spots 

 on costa ; a series of white points before termen ; a terminal series 

 of dark strife ; cilia with a series of slight dark spots. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the veins brown, the inner area tinged with 

 red-brown ; the costal area and termen to vein 5 suffused with red- 

 brown ; a dark terminal line and double bar filled in with white 

 above tornus ; cilia white, brown at apex and towards tornus ; the 

 underside with the costal area white irrorated with black-brown, a 

 black spot near base of costa, discoidal lunule with diffused patch 

 above it on costal area, postmedial series of minute black streaks 

 on the veins, the apical part of terminal area with dark suffusion, 

 a terminal series of blackish lunules. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing variegated with whitish, the stigmata defined 

 by white and the spot below the cell white. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing pale ochreous brown except the inner area 

 and dark marks on costal area. 



Ab. 3. Similar, but fore wing with the ground-colour creamy 

 white. 



Hah. Panama, Canna Mines (Tylecote), 1 c? ; Ecuadok, Loja, 

 1 cS : Peru, Pozuzo, 1 S ; Brazil, Castro Paraiia (I). Jones), 1 S ; 

 Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 17 J- Exp. 40-48 millim. 



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