312 HETEROCERA. 
8. Porpe tacubayella Krft. 
Choreutis tacubayella Krft. Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 16 181-2 (1908) °. 
Hab. Mexico!: mexico!:; Tacubaya (O. W. Barrett)’. 
9. Porpe charmonica, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 19.) 
Antennae distinctly annulate with white and fuscous. Palpi, with the long divided brush on the median 
joint streaked and speckled with white and fuscous; the terminal joint tipped with fuscous. Head 
cinereous. Thorax olive-brown, anteriorly sprinkled with cinereous ; underside whitish. Forewings 
olive- brown at the base, blending into rich chestnut-brown toward the middle; a small triangular patch, 
on the costa at one-fourth, is sprinkled with cinereous scales and followed, at a little before the middle, 
by a steel-blue metallic band, descending obliquely outward from a minute white costal spot to the fold, 
where it joins the profusely speckled outer half of the wing, forming, together with a shorter inverted 
metallic streak, also arising from a small white costal spot, a V-shaped figure enclosing the middle of the 
costa ; the whole outer half of the wing is profusely sprinkled with cinereous, the brown ground-colour 
reappearing only in a short transverse streak around the base of the apical cilia, and in a slender oblique 
broken line of scales, crossing the middle of the black ocelloid patch, which is margined internally and 
externally by groups of steel-grey metallic scaling ; above the ocelloid patch is a pale ochreous line at its 
upper edge, and in the speckled space above it two small steel-blue spots and a narrow transverse band of 
the same before the apex; cilia speckled with fuscous and pale cinereous. Hrp.al.10 mm. Hindwings 
brownish fuscous; cilia paler, with a double shade of the wing-colour running through them. Abdomen 
brownish fuscous, speckled transversely with pale cinereous—whitish beneath ; anal tuft fuscous. Legs 
pale cinereous, the tarsi and ends of the tibiae banded with fuscous. 
Type 3 (66675) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Omilteme, 8000 ft., VII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 
TORTYRA Wkr. 
=Saprua Wkr.; =Bapera Wkr.; =Cuoreera (Z.) F. & R.; =Cuorpates Snin. 
Type 1: Tortyra spectabilis Wkr. 
Tortyra Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 28 510-11 no. 25 sp. 1-2 (1863) ; Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 
528-9, 546 no. 52 sp. 105 (1892): 1897 120-1 no. 57 sp. 161 (1897); Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soe. 
NSW. 82: 1907 50, 97-100 no. 30 sp. 159-63 (1907). 
1. Tortyra chalcodes, sp. n. 
Antennae thickened, to three-fourths of their length, with rich bronzy purplish scales; a white band around 
them beyond the thickened portion, the apex bronzy fuscous. Palpi projecting the length of the head 
beyond it, the smooth median joint shining steel-green ; the short terminal joint bronzy fuscous. Head 
bronzy fuscous; face steel-green. Z'horaw bronzy fuscous, with arich purple sheen. Forewings with a 
bright purple basal patch to one-fourth, having a jet-biack costal spot at the base, with some steel-green 
scales below and behind it; beyond the basal patch is a nearly straight bright aeneous band, becoming 
purple at its costal extremity, narrowly margined before and behind by tawny blackish lines, which 
separate it on either side from broader bands of diffused shading, composed of alternate lines of brownish 
fuscous and whitish cinereous, the outer band, somewhat diffused outward on its upper half; beyond this 
the remaining surface of the wing to the termen and apex is rich bright shining cupreous, with greenish 
golden reflections, tending to lilac along the costa; in this space are four jet-black lines radiating from 
the upper angle of the cell, but not reaching the apex, these become shorter in progression upward; a 
short jet-black line follows vein 2 a little inward from the termen ; cilia bright bronzy cupreous. Lap. 
al. 19 mm. Hindwings broadly triangular, through the extension of the flexus; dull bronzy brown 
