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Abdomen blackish brown above; dusky ochreous below; anal tuft ochreous. 

 Legs clothed with mixed ochreous reddish and black hairs. 

 Alar expanse, 28 to 32 mm. 



Habitat: Orizaba, Mexico, R. Miiller, collector. June. 



Type: No. 15419, U. S. National Museum. 



In the National Museum is also a large series of this species 

 from Sixola River and Turialba, Costa Rica, William Schaus, 

 collector. 



Acrolophus directus, new species. 



Labial palpi very short, reaching only to the middle of the face, por- 

 rected, clothed with long black and gray hairs. Antennae short, thin, 

 simple. Head and thorax long-haired, woolly, gray. Fore wings light 

 gray with the veins faintly outlined with ochreous scales and dotted with 

 equidistant single blackish-brown scales; costal edge with series of small 

 equidistant blackish dots; across the end of the cell is a bold heavy blackish- 

 brown oblique streak. Cilia light gray. Hind wing light bluish fuscous 

 with somewhat lighter cilia. Abodmen and legs gray. 



Alar expanse: 30 mm. 



Habitat: Mexico City, Mexico, June, R. Miiller, collector. 

 Type: No. 15420, U. S. National Museum. 



Acrolophus modestus, new species. 



Labial palpi porrected or even deflected, rather short for the genus, 

 light ochreous mottled with black and brown. Head and thorax ochreous 

 gray mottled with black. Fore wings dark fuscous with indistinct and 

 ill-defined lighter longitudinal streaks; costal edge light ochreous fuscous 

 with equidistant dark fuscous dots; on the middle of the wing near base 

 and along the fold are scattered single bluish-black scales; on the middle 

 of the fold is a faint triangular dark brown spot; terminal area deep brown, 

 edged with a faint, oblique, straight row of single, bluish-black scales 

 from apex toward the end of the fold, beyond which row is a light ochreous 

 fuscous area. Cilia with alternate light ochreous and dark fuscous tufts. 

 Hind wings dark fuscous, with cilia a shade lighter. Abdomen dark fus- 

 cous; legs dirty ochreous with faint dark brown tarsal annulations. 



Alar expanse, 32 to 30 mm. 



Habitat: Tehuacan, Mexico, June, July, R. Miiller, col- 

 lector 



Type: No. 15421, U. S. National Museum. 



Acrolophus icarus, new species. 



Labial palpi long, recurved, plumose, reaching beyond thorax, whitish 

 gray mixed and tipped with bluish black. Head and thorax dirty white 

 mottled with light brown. Fore wings white, closely overlaid with light 

 brown, ochreous, and black scales so as to make the impression of light 

 gray to the unaided eye; on the middle of the wing is an ill-defined and 



