
ACROLOPHUS. 385 
Hab. GUATEMALA: RETALHULEU: Las Mercedes, 3000 ft, X-~-XI. 1880 (G. C. 
Champion). ‘Two specimens. 
This species resembles 6579 cressoni Wlsm. in colouring, but is of the size and 
form of 6598 variabilis Wl1sm.; FW: 8-9 are stalked. 
14. Acrolophus fervida Busck. 
Acrolophus fervida Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 14: 1912 222-3 (1912) *. 
Lype 3 (15419, Orizada) US. Nat. Mus. 
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America }\—Mexico!: vera cruz!: Orizaba, VI. 
(R. Miller) '—Costa Rica!: tron! : Sixola River (W. Schaus) 1: cartaco!: Turrialba 
(W. Schaus)1--Panama: PanaMA: La Chorrera, IV-V. 1898 (C. H. Dolby-Tyler). 
South America—-CoLomBia, W.: El Credo, 1000 ft., II. 1907 (W. F. H. Rosenberg). 
15. Acrolophus directa Busck. 
Acrolophus directus Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 14:1912 223 (1912)*: Ins. Insc. Mens. 1 143 
(1913) *% 
Type 2 (15420) US. Nat. Mus. | 
Hab. Mexico’: mexico’?: Mexico City, VI. (2. Miiiler)*~. 
16. Acrolophus apertella Busck. 
Acrolophus apertella Busck Ins. Insc. Mens. 1 142-3 (1918) *. 
Type 3 (16665) US. Nat. Mus. 
Hab. Mexico':; mexico’: Zacualpan, VII. (&. Miller)’. 
17. Acrolophus modesta Busck. 
Acrolophus modestus Busck Pr. Ent. Ent. Soc, Wash. 14: 1912 2238 (1912) *. 
Type « (15421) US. Nat. Mus. 
Hab. Mexico’: pursta!: Tehuacan, VI-VII. (2. Miller)’. 
18. Acrolophus jalapae, sp. n. 
Antennae minutely ciliate, brownish. Palpa erect; brownish cinereous, shaded and sprinkled with dark 
fascous. Head and Thoraa brownish fuscous. Forewings brownish cinereous, suffused and sprinkled 
with fuscous, and blotched with darker brownish fuscous; the outer discal and plical patches are 
almost confluent, the former placed obliquely, extending nearly to the tornus, but angulated backward 
to the dorsum by a narrow line of dark scales, which forms a continuation of the dark fuscous 
ante-terminal streak; the outer third of the costa, with the apex and termen, shows rather widely 
separated dark fuscous spots or short streaks; cilia much shaded with fuscous. Hap. al. 29-38 mm. 
Hindwings dark purplish fuscous ; cilia tipped with brownish cinereous. Abdomen greyish fuscous : 
genitalia, uncus single, bent over, not angulate—the long, narrow, somewhat curved, spoon-shaped claspers 
extending well beyond it, evenly rounded posteriorly. Legs moderately smooth ; brownish cinereous. 
Type 8 (4648) 5 2 (4650) Mus. Wism. BM. [PT (4549) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Jalapa, 4500 ft., 1887 (W. Schaus). 
The 2 has short porrect palpi, and is larger than the ¢; FW. 8-9 are separate. 
BIOL, CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1V., November 1914. 3 dd 
