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thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without 
crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen smoothly 
scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the costa arched 
towards apex which is somewhat produced, the termen 
evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomos- 
ing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 
with the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 
from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Acant ermia dyari, n. sp. 
Head and thorax white mixed with some rufous, the 
antennae rufous, white above towards base, the palpi red- 
brown, the 3rd joint white tinged with rufous ; abdomen 
pale red-brown with some whitish at base ; pectus, legs and 
ventral surface of abdomen white suffused with rufous. 
Fore wing white tinged with rufous and irroratecl with 
blackish ; a blackish point below the cell towards base ; 
antemedial line double, blackish, sinuous, almost obsolete 
from costa to median nervure, a curved white discoidal 
striga, defined at sides by blackish scales ; postmedia] line 
double, blackish, interrupted at the veins, oblique towards 
costa, angled inwards at discaJ fold, at vein 3 bent inwards to 
just below angle of cell, then erect to inner margin ; sub- 
terminal line whitish defined on each side by rather diffused 
blackish, excurved at middle, then incurved. Hind wing- 
white suffused and slightly irrorated with red-brown, the base 
and inner area rather whiter. Underside uniform white 
suffused with rufous. 
Rob. Mexico, Venadio, Sinaloa ( Schaus ), 1 type. Exp. 
3b millim. 
Genus HERMINODES. 
type. 
Hermvnodes, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 431 (1852) nigripalpis, Guen. 
Chadaca, Walk. xv. 1640 (1858) atrosignata. Walk. 
Rhosologia , Walk, xxxiii. 1003 (1865) porrecta, Walk. 
Herminod.es tessellata, n. sp. 
9- Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and 
irrorated with black ; frons at sides, palpi except above, 
pectus in front and legs suffused with dark reddish brown ; 
abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing ochreous white strongly 
irrorated with black ; the costal edge reddish ochreous, the 
costal area irrorated with red-brown on medial area, the 
median nervure and veins from before the postmedial line 
with creamy white streaks ; a small black spot in the cell 
