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Family CITHERONIID^. 

 Genus CITHERONIA Hubner. 



CITHERONIA BELEDONON, new species. 



Head and thorax variegated with yellow and vermillion; abdomen 

 Vermillion above, with yellow basal segmental bands, yellow below 

 with lateral and subventral vermillion spots. Fore wing gray, the 

 veins lined in red; a submarginal wavy orange-red band, broken 

 above; a yellow spot at base, an angular one in cell and small one 

 below base of vein 2; an outer row of spots between the veins, the 

 two costal ones elliptical, large, and confluent, the ones below veins 

 4 and 1 moderate, pyriform, the others small, none below vein 5. 

 Hind wing with the ground yellow, the veins lined with red and a red 

 basal shading; a red outer band, nearly pure red in the male, shaded 

 with gray in spots between the veins in the female; a marginal gray 

 band, cut into spots by the red veins, this band broadest and most 

 distinct in the female, but present in the male also. Expanse: 

 Male, 98 mm.; female, 118 mm. 



Cotypes. — No. 14215, U.S.N. M., Cuernavaca, Mexico; male, May, 

 1911 (R. Muller); female, July, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Allied to C. mexicana Grote and Robinson, but with the costo- 

 subapical spots larger and paler yellow, the hind wings of the male 

 round and fuller and marked similarly to those of the female. 



Genus ADELOCEPHALA Boisduval. 

 ADELOCEPHALA XANTHOCHROIA, new species. 



Orange yellow; foro wing with large sparse purplisli strigae; inner 

 line slender, purplisli, curved a little in the cell; discal mark double, 

 tlie upper spot small, purplish, the lower white, angular, edged with 

 purplish; outer line narrow, straight, from costa before apex to near 

 middle of inner margin; a purplish shade along the fringe of the 

 margin. Hind wing with a crimson patch on inner part of wing from 

 base toward tornus, the inner margin itself yellow like the rest of the 

 wing. Beneath, fore wing with a large black discal patch, containing 

 two white points; an outer line on both wings, distinct only toward 

 the apex. Expanse, 69 mm. 



Type.—Ma\e, No. 14028, U.S.N.M., Misantla, Mexico, May, 1910 

 (R. Muller). 



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