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wings of the male with a broad dark rosy shade on inner margin, the 

 other marldngs as in the preceding species. Female with the disk 

 dark orange, the outer bands and inner shade not strongly contrasted. 



Cotypes.— Four males, two females, No. 13859, U.S.N.M., Cuer- 

 navaca, Mexico, July, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Mr. Schaus says that the female is in the British Museum under the 

 name Automeris cogena Felder, but that it does not agree with Felder's 

 figure. 



AUTOMERIS THYREON, new species. 



Male brownish tan-color, the fore wing with the inner line distinct, 

 blackish, of three arcs in a line and two strongly dislocated ones; 

 discal mark of arcs in an ellipse with central spot, grayish filled; 

 outer line blacldsh, of short arcs in a straight line; submarginal line 

 of brownish red spots, distinctly discolorous, in an undulating row. 

 Hmd wing with the disk orange-tan, the inner margin broadly dull 

 rose; discal ocellus rather small, black, with central powdering and 

 white dash; outer line black, evenly curved; submarginal line red. 

 Expanse, 47 mm. 



Female purple-brown, abdomen dorsally coherous. Fore wing 

 with the basal space and discal lunule broadly brownish ocher, paler 

 than the rest of the wing; outer line of ocher lunules with a dark 

 bordering shade without; a submarginal dark shade. Hind wing 

 ocher with purplish brown shade on inner margin; discal ocellus and 

 outer line black; submarginal line purple brown; fringe red-brown. 

 Expanse 53 mm. 



Cotypes.— Thirteen males, two females. No. 13860, U.S.N.M., 

 Cuernavaca, Mexico, June and August, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



^Ir. Schaus compared the female in London and labeled it "Seems 

 also distinct; nothing like it here." 



Genus COLORADIA Blake. 



COLORADIA EUPHROSYNE, new species. 



Dark gray; body parts nearly black; fore femora with some crim- 

 son hairs; antennae testaceous; fore wing shaded with blackish, 

 except across and beyond cell; lines broad, diffused, of the same dark 

 color; discal spot round, black. Hind wing dark crimson with 

 mesial blackish shade and broad outer border; discal spot round, 

 darker. Beneath both wings crimson with mesial and broad outer 

 bands; discal spots large, rounded, blacker than the bands. Expanse, 

 62 mm. 



Type. — One male. No. 14077, U.S.N.M., Mexico City, Mexico^ 

 July, 1910 (R. Miiller). 



