18 NOCTUID.E. 



oblique to inner margin ; a slight black streak on middle of costa 

 and curved blackish medial line from below costa to inner margin 

 with the whitish discoidal bar on its outer edge ; postmedial line 

 blackish faintly defined on outer side by whitish, slightly incurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then oblique, the costa bej'ond it with 

 alternating black and white striae ; subterminal line blackish, bent 

 inwards as a streak below costa to near postmedial line, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and ending at tornus ; some red-brown suffusion 

 on termen and a terminal series of black points with white strise 

 before them. Hind wing whitish slightly irrorated with red-brown, 

 the medial area suffused with red-brown and black-brown ; ante- 

 medial line blackish ; traces of a blackish medial line with black 

 point at inner margin ; postmedial line diffused, blackish, angled 

 outwards at vein 4, then oblique; a red-brown subterminal shade 

 from apex to vein 3 ; a terminal black band from apex to vein 4, 

 then a series of lunules ; the underside white irrorated with brown, 

 a blackish discoidal point and indistinct postmedial line. 



Hah. Colombia (^Nolcken), 1 ^ type, Minca {H. H. Smith). 

 E.vj). 14 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore and hind wings with the termen slightly excised below apex. 



4999. A.cidaliodes truncata, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax white slightly tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 white tinged with brown and dorsally suffused with blackish except 

 towards base. Fore wing whitish tinged and irrorated with brown ; 

 a slight subbasal blackish point in cell ; a slight curved dark ante- 

 medial line with black point in submedian fold ; a faint whitish 

 discoidal spot ; postmedial line slight, blackish, very oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, incurved below vein 4 and with black point on it in 

 submedian fold ; a faint minutely waved whitish subterminal line ; 



Fig. 7. — Acidaliodes truncata, $ . f . 



a terminal series of black points conjoined into a narrow baud 

 towards apex and defined on inner side by a whitish line ; cilia black- 

 brown at tips from apex to vein 4. Hind wing whitish sufl'used 

 and irrorated with dark brown ; slight oblique sinuous blackish 

 subbasal and medial lines on inner area ; an oblique white 

 subterminal line defined on each side by fine black lines ; a fine 

 black terminal line defined on inner side by a white line ; cilia 

 white with brown line near base from apex to discal fold ; the 



