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Genus ACHATODES Guen^e. 

 ACHATODES METALEUCA, new species. 



Fore wing very light reddish brown, the markings obliterate; 

 orbicular and rcniform large, rounded, paler; a whitish space at apex, 

 sharply obUquely limited inwardly, from which a brown submarginal 

 line parallel to outer margin is faintly traceable. Thorax whitish. 

 Hind wing white, thin and silky. Expanse, 32 mm. 



Ti/pe.—Male, No. 13891, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, June, 1910 

 (R. Muller). 



Determined, and the name suggested by Sir G. F, Hampson. 



Genus ERYTHRCECIA Hampson. 



ERYTHRCECIA EUPOSIS, new species. 



Thorax and fore wing yellow, much spotted with rose-pink. A 

 row of spots along costa; two in base of cell; orbicular and reniform 

 large, toucliing subcostal vein; two large spots below orbicular in a 

 line to inner margin; a row of jninute ones mesially; an outer band 

 of spots of three rows close together and partly confluent; a neat 

 terminal row of round spots between the veins; a row of confluent 

 spots in the fringe. Hind wing black, the fringe wliite. Abdomen 

 black, the tips of the segments pale, wliitish beneath. Expanse, 

 36 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 13892, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, September, 

 1910 (R. Muller). 



Genus PAPAIPEMA Smith. 



PAPAIPEMA APICATA, new species. 



Dark brown, bases of antennae and patagia with wliite spots; fore 

 wing dark brown, nearly solidly so on lower half to tornus; base 

 white, crossed by a fine brown line; a wliite speck in base of cell; 

 claviform a large white elliptical spot with a white dot just above its 

 upper edge and a fine line running across cell; seven white spots on 

 costa; orbicular round, wliite, with a brown central dot; reniform 

 with yellow center and fine brown line, two white spots before it and 

 four on the outer border; a white elHptic(il spot at apex, cut by two 

 brown veins and showing faint spottings submarginally below; a 

 dark line at base of fringe. Hind wing cinereous shaded, the veins 

 darker; fringe pale. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 13893, U.S.N.M., Zacualpan, Mexico, Sep- 

 tember, 1909 (R. Muller). 



Examined by Sir G. F. Hampson, and the name suggested by him. 

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