ACHERDOA; MEROPLEON; FAGITANA; PHUPHENA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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E. plinthobaps Zerny (35 d). Forewing olive-green, towards the margin warming more into brown, plinthobaps. 
with double brown transverse lines filled up with light violet, the green maculae finely bordered with yellowish; 
the apex of the wing is cut off by a straight yellowish fine line extending to the lower radial branch at the 
distal margin; behind it at the costal margin and before it below it at the distal margin one dark brown 
triangle each. Hindwing dark red-brown. Described from Bolivia (Rio Songo). 
E. granitosa Gn. is an entirely unknown species from North America, it was hitherto impossible yranitosa. 
to discover the type of it in the Coll. Oberthur. 
33. Genus: AcSaea*«ioji Wkr. 
The only peculiar species is without proboscis, with a smooth frons, in the G with long-combed antennae, 
a rough-scaled thorax, with a strong tuft on the metathorax, densely scaled legs and a series of tufts on the 
abdomen, the middle ones of which are largest, i. e. on the 3rd ring. 
A. ferraria Wkr. (= ornata Neum.) (35 d, e) is a small species with broad wings. The bright red- j err aria. 
browm forewing is irrorated with black in the disc, in the marginal area more greyish-brown; the anterior 
transverse line is proximally bordered with a pure white, the posterior line is double, red-brown, in the lower 
half filled up with white, the red-brown maculae are surrounded with white; before the whitish undulate line 
there are analwards small black sagittae. Hindwing blackish-brown. Florida, South Mississippi. 
34. Genus: Meropleon Dyar. 
Very closely allied to the preceding genus and separated from it by the very hairy tibiae, in the G 
serrate antennae, the largest abdominal tuft being on the fourth not third ring; on the hindwing the uppermost 
radial branch is forked with the subcostal branch, in Acherdoa not so. Only one species: 
M. cosmion Dyar (35 d). Forewing on the violettish-grey ground irrorated with red-brown or a cosmion. 
darker, even black colour, excepting the first three quarters of the costal area and of the upper border of the 
median and of the maculae, the reniform macula centred somewhat red-brown with a small violettish-grey 
luna before it; the transverse lines are indistinctly double, filled up with a lighter colour, behind the distal 
line a row of vein-dots; behind the indistinct undulate line a narrow brown marginal band; between the maculae 
the cell is irrorated with dark brown; an oblique dark apical shadow unites with another one below the cell, 
extending to the base of the hind-margin. Hindwing pinkish-yellowish with pink fringes. Mississippi. — The 
pinkish-brownish larva bores into sugar-cane and, in some places, seems to do much harm. 
35. Genus: Fagitaiaia Wkr. 
Separated from the preceding by longer palpi, a developed proboscis, the tuftless thorax being clad 
with hair-like scales and being intermixed with hairs. The abdomen exhibits minute tufts only on the first 
rings. Beside a Siberian species ( datanidia , cf. Vol. Ill, p. 197, where it is listed in the genus Virgo Stgr.l), 
only one American species is known hitherto. 
F. llttera Gn. (= lucidata Wkr., niveicostatus Grt.) (35 e) is irrorated with red-brown on its whitish littera. 
ground, particularly in the median area and at the distal margin, the red-brown transverse lines bordered with 
white on the inverted sides, and with a white discal streak. Hindwing reel-brown with a faded darker median 
band. Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Florida. 
36. Genus: i*kitj}»Sa<‘sia Wkr. 
A small genus closely allied with the preceding, chiefly distinguished by the tuftless thorax being 
purely clad with scales, the abdomen also being quite tuftless. Hindwing on the discal fold at the margin with 
an excision. 
Ph. cilix Drc. (35 e) is distinguished by a very concave distal margin of the forewing below the apex, cilix. 
with a produced tooth below it on the lower radial branch; forewing red-brown at the apex darker, strewn 
with whitish, with double red-brown transverse lines filled up with whitish, the maculae surrounded with 
whitish, the reniform macula on the median produced to the ring-macula; the undulate line consists of white 
small lunae distally bordered with brown and projecting on the lowest radial branch as far as the margin. 
Hindwing red-brown. Panama. 
Ph. fusipermis Wkr. (= trilinea Schs.) (35 e). Forewing reddish ochreous, irrorated and strewn fusipennis. 
with red-brown, in the marginal area lighter, in the median area darker with intense dark brown transverse 
