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8. Cryptolechia crossota, sp. n. 
Antennae pink at the base, blending to olivaceous grey outwardly. Palpi overarching the vertex ; flesh- 
coloured, sprinkled with reddish fuscous scales on their outer sides. Head and Thorax ochreous. 
Forewings with the costa evenly and considerably arched, apex obtusely rounded, termen not oblique, 
tornus rounded ; ochreous, with a rosy flesh-like tinge, which becomes very narrowly rich salmon-red 
along the costa and termen in the ¢, but a shade darker, or more purplish in the 2, fading out 
toward the base; a slender purplish line, leaving the costa at three-fourths from the base, curves - 
outward, running roughly parallel to the termen and reverting, with a slight bend on the fold, to the 
dorsum before the tornus; a few scales of the same colour form an indistinct cloud across the end of 
the cell, and a minute fuscous dot occurs on the middle of the cell in the 9, at a little less than 
one-third from the base; a black spot lies at the base of the costa; terminal cilia salmon-red, strongly 
tipped with purple; underside rosy flesh-colour, deepening toward the costa and termen. Lup. al. 
24-27 mm. Hindwings bright yellowish ochreous, tinged with rosy flesh-colour toward the apex; cilia 
yellow-ochreous, also strongly tinged with rosy flesh-colour at apex and termen. Abdomen and Legs 
yellowish ochreous. 
Type Q (65919, La Tinta) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PI (5852 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. 
Mus. | 
Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Santa Rosa, VIII. 1906 (W. Schaws) — GuaTEMALa : 
vera Paz: La Tinta, Polochic Valley, 16. XI. 1879 (G.C. Champion). ‘Two specimens. 
Very closely allied to flava Z., but distinguishable by the more conical projecting 
tuft of scales on the head, and by the absence of the dark purplish line at the base of 
the cilia on the forewings. 
9. Cryptolechia? rhodosarca, sp. n. (Tab. IV. fig. 15.) 
Antennae yellow, tinged with rosy red towards the base. Palpi somewhat slender, recurved, terminal joint 
half as long as the median; rosy red, speckled with yellow, the terminal joint banded and tipped with 
yellow. Head and Thoras yellowish, mixed with rosy red, Forewings broadly ovate, with the costa 
much arched, apex rounded, termen convex; bright rosy red, much reticulated at the base and towards 
the apex with bright golden yellow, which forms a series of about eight subterminal spots around the apex ; 
a bright rosy purple suffusion covering the dorsum, except its basal fourth, extends upward across the 
cell nearly to the costa, its inner edge being marked on the cell by a round silvery white spot, a small 
white dot lying at its outer edge on the end of the cell—this suffusion is not clearly defined, but blends 
with the ground-eolour towards the termen ; cilia golden yellow, with some rosy red near the tornus ; 
underside rich rosy pink. Exp. ai, 18 mm. Hindwings rosy pink; cilia yellowish, with rosy pink 
suffusion; underside rich rosy pink. Abdomen rosy pink. Legs pale yellowish, with rosy pink shades 
externally on the tibiae. 
Type 2 (65904) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
‘Hab. GuateMaALA: ALTA VERA Paz: Senahu, 2800 ft., XI. 1879 (G. €. Champion). 
Unique. | ; 
This species is slightly aberrant in FW: 11 arising nearer to the base than is usual, 
but not so near as in Teratomorpha Wlsm.; the apex of the forewing is also more 
than usually rounded, and HW: 8-4 are slightly separate, not connate. 
