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CIRPHIS VELVA, new species. 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax grayish purple; the patagia 

 dorsally mottled with pale reddish. Abdomen grayish; anal tufts 

 yellowish. Fore wings: Costal margin grayish purple with black 

 irro rations; inner margin, a shade below end of cell and between 

 veins 2 and 3, where it is joined by an oblique shade from termen 

 below vein 7, also grayish purple with black irrorations; cell, below 

 it basally, and postmedial space otherwise mottled yellow and red; 

 termen reddish suffused with graj'ish purple; a small white streak 

 on median at veins 3 and 4; postmedial black points on veins; ter- 

 minal black points on interspaces; cilia iridescent reddish or gray; 

 cilia on inner margin white. Hind wings thinly scaled, white. Fore 

 wings below roseate white, the termen and costa lilacine gray with 

 black irrorations; a black point on costa before apex; terminal black 

 points. 



Expanse. — 33 mm. 



Habitat. — Chejel, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23379, U.S.N.M. 



Near C. pyrastis Hampson. 



CIRPHIS MACOYA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi, head, collar, and thorax ocherous gray. Abdomen 

 whitish gray with black irrorations; the last two segments grayer 

 dorsally; anal tufts ocherous yellow. Fore wings ochreous gray with 

 scattered irrorations; the cell, a streak below it, intervenal streaks 

 and either side of submedian, also veins beyond cell finely edged with 

 pale reddish brown; the termen with grayish suffusions at tornus 

 and from above vein 4 to vein 7 ; a fine black streak in cell along me- 

 dian terminating in a black point at discocellular; a large black spot 

 between veins 3 and 5 at cell; postmedial black points on veins, and 

 terminal black points on interspaces. Hind wings white, terminal 

 black points except at anal angle. Fore wings below ocherous white; 

 a black point on costa before apex; black terminal points, more con- 

 spicuous on hind wing. 



Expanse. — 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23380, U.S.N.M. 



Near Cirphis jaliscana Schaus. 



CIRPHIS CHEJELA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi purplish grsij. Frons brown with a darker trans- 

 verse shade. Vertex, collar, and thorax lilacine gray; a dark trans- 

 verse line on collar; a few black irrorations on patagia. Abdomen 

 ocherous white, the subdorsal hairs on basal half white. Fore wings: 

 The veins, a streak on costal margin, and one between median and 



