. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 18 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-brow
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 18 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). ). 14 millim. Sect. II. Fore and hind wings with the termen slightly excised below apex. 4999. 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 conjoi
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