258 NOCTCID^. 



*7382. Acanthodica cliiripa. (Plate CCIII. fig. 13.) 



Acanihodica chiripa, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxviii. p. 68'J (189+). 



c? . Head and thorax pale reddish brown irrorated with black ; 

 frons blackish above ; abdomen brownish grey, the dorsal crests 

 and a series of lateral spots blackish. Fore wing grey suffused 

 with pale reddish brown and slightly irrorated with black ; a 

 pubbasal black spot just below costa ; a minutely waved antemedial 

 line bent inwards to costa and inner margin with a maculate black 

 band before it from costa to just below the cell ; orbicular indistinct, 

 figure of 8-shaped, greyish with two small tufts of raised black 

 scales on it, and two obliquely placed below the cell ; reniform 

 indistinct, greyish with two small black tufts of scales on it and 

 one on its outer edge ; the postmedial line fine, black, minutely 

 waved, interrupted, bent outwards below costa ana strongly in- 

 curved below vein 4, defined by whitish on outer side beyond which 

 is a somewhat diffused biown line with short blackish streaks at 

 the veins ; a blackish fascia in discal fold from the postmedial line 

 to near termen ; the subterminal line represented by a series of 

 short brownish streaks in the interspaces, exeurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; a series of small black and white spots 

 just before termen ; cilia with crenulate black line through them. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white ; two short black striae before 

 termen below vein 1, with a black mark beyond them on the cilia ; a 

 waved black lino on termen between veins 4 and 2 ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with black and the costa tinged with 

 brown, a black discoidal lunule ; a postmedial series of points on 

 the veins with large spot on costa, exeurved below costa, then 

 oblique to tornus, a terminal series of points. 



Bah. Ecuador, Loja, type f c5' in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus COCYTODES. 



Tjpe. 

 Cocytodes, Gnen. Noct. iii. p. 41 (1852) ccsndea. 



Proboscis fully cleyeloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 

 of frons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd short and thickly sealed ; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round; antennas of male simple; thorax clothed wilh 

 hair only and without crests; tibiae fringed with long hair and all spined ; 

 abdomen dorsally flattened and entirely clothed with woolly hair. Fore wing 

 rather narrow, the margins subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from upper 

 angle ; 6 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper atigle ; 8 

 anabtomosing with the cell near base only. 



