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ACRAGA. By Dr. Herbert Sick. 
arcij era. 
fla va. 
cosmia. 
boliviano-. 
iso the a. 
umbrifera. 
ferruginea. 
car eft a. 
obscura. 
hamata. 
elvira. 
mar i ala. 
A. arcifera Dyar is very closely allied with leberna , but the colouring is distinctly yellow instead of 
creamy white. French Guiana. 
A. flava Wkr. (----- sulphurea Barm.) (168 e). Golden yellow. Antennae moderately pectinated, slightly 
tufted at the tips. Rio de Janeiro. French Guiana. 
A. cosmia Dgn. 30 mm. Palpi and coxae white mixed with yellow; head and thorax white; abdomen 
yellow, band whitish. Legs white with a few brown hairs. Wings white; forewing above slightly suffused with 
brown, sometimes hardly visible, extending from the base along the interior margin on the first half, then along 
vein 2 which it follows as far as close to the margin, rising subterminally to vein 5, above which it bends round 
and extends to vein 8 where it vanishes. A terminal brown streak at the apex between veins 8 and 9; the disco- 
cellulars brownish like the distal end of veins 2—5, too; a brown marginal edge of the anal angle at vein 5; 
fringe white with a few brown hairs near the anal angle and at the apex. Hindwing above and fringe white, 
dusted brown at the anal angle. Wings beneath and fringe white. San Antonio, near Cali, Colombia, 2000 m. 
1 April 1909 (Fassl). var. boliviana Hopp. The Berlin Museum contains a specimen from Bolivia differing 
from the type in the discal parts of the forewings not being brownish, but the whole forewings being feebly 
yellowish white in contrast with the white hindwings. The brown marking is only distinct at the interior margin. 
Chest with yellowish brown spots. 
A. isotliea Dgn. (168 f). White and yellow, feet white, the first pair almost entirely covered with yellow 
scales; palpi yellow, with whitish tips. Antennae, head and body above yellow. Collar and thorax yellow mingled 
with white scales; ventrum partly whitish. Wings white. Forewing above suffused with yellow, especially the 
interior region except the extreme base as far as vein 1 c, then postmedianly on vein 2 and behind the interior 
half of the cellular vein 3 to 5. The suffusion vanishes and is only visible subterminally on veins 6, 7 and 8. 
White marginal dots of the ground-colour are situate between veins 2 and 5, uniformly touching the corresponding 
fringes. Margin and fringe from vein 5 to the apex white except a yellow apical spot above vein 8. Margin and 
fringe of hindwing correspondingly spotted yellow from the anal angle almost to vein 5; spot beneath small. 
Forewing beneath white with faint traces of the apical spot and a few yellow scales on the fringes. Expanse 
of wings: 25 mm. Lim. Panama; 2 (Fassl). 
A. umbrifera Dyar. Body above light brown, beneath white. Collar speckled white. Forewing: markings 
lighter. A dot at the end of the cell; with a broad postmedian shadow extending as far as the fringe between 
veins 3 and 5; a narrow shadow along the interior margin as far as the postmedian vein. Hindwing with a pale 
brown shadow at the anal angle, extending to the fringe. 22 mm. St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana. 
A. ferruginea Hopp. The $ is rusty red without any marking, forewing somewhat darker at the interior 
margin; antennae, head and legs brownish ochreous, abdomen rusty red. Expanse: 32 mm. Pachitea, Peru. 
A. caretta Schs. (168a). White; forewing with a chocolate brown shadowy submarginal band which 
is intense at the anal angle, gradually vanishing and altogether absent at the interior margin. The discal cross¬ 
vein and the origin of veins 2 and 3 finely marked with brown. 1 <$, Misantea. Mexico, June 1909 (R.. Muller). 
1 $ Ghiriquicito, Panama (W. Schaus). 
A. obscura Schs. Dark golden brown. Costal margin of hindwing somewhat paler. Expanse: 22 mm. 
Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
A. hamata Schs. (168 a). Forewing somewhat falciform, slightly produced below vein 4 and rounded. 
Hindwing bent inwards below the apex, the anal angle produced. Antennae brownish greyish yellow. Head 
and thorax deep yellow. Hindwing pale yellow. Wings of a glaring yellow. Costal margin of hindwing whitish. 
Expanse: 28 mm. Juan Vinas, June; Tuis, May. 
A. elvira Dogn. 20—21 mm. Forewing above black; interior margin interrupted by white in the 
centre, dusted with yellow outside. Hindwing above white, superficially dusted, with a black, rather thin 
marginal line - fringe black with a few pale tiny hairs. Forewing beneath black suffused with white in the centre 
and at the interior margin. Hindwing beneath as above, but the black margin reduced in the apical region. 
Frhige of lundwing whitish. Body above black with a few tiny white hairs; body beneath and legs white. $ 
25 mm. Forewing w’th a very broad black costal-marginal edge, a thin marginal edge from the base to the 
interior margin, the other parts of the wing yellow: hindwing with a broad yellow central band blackening the 
base and the whole surface of the wing as far as beyond the middle of the costal and abdominal margins, finally 
narrowing down between the broad black marginal bands, at the apex 1 etween veins 4 and 5. 1 $. July 20th 
1908, 1600 m; 1 §, August 24th 1908, 1800 m, Colombia. 
A. mariala Dogn. 32 mm. Wings longer, palpi, head, antennae, thorax, forelegs, forewing beneath and 
fringe orange; hindwing, its fringe, and all the wings beneath of the same colouring, but paler. The wings are 
covered with tiny fine hairs, less so beneath and on the hindwing. Bogota. Colombia, 1 $, .July 8 th 1919. 
