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basal indentations of the margin; two mesial shaded lines, most 

 distinct near inner margin, the outer one close to the siibmarginal 

 shade. Expanse, 115 mm.' 



Type. — One male. No. 13854, U.S.N.M., Mineras de Zacualpan 

 (near Mexico City), Mexico, August, 1910 (R. Miiller). 



Superfamily SATURNOIDEA. 



Family SATURNIID^ 



Genus ROTHSCHILDIA Grote. 



ROTHSCHILDIA LICHTENBA, new species. 



Mouse gray; collar and base of abdomen with a broad white band; 

 sides of abdomen wliite with a row of red points; a sublateral row of 

 red patches. Fore wing wdth the inner band angled, white, broad, 

 edged with red within and black without, the latter broken on the 

 angulation, while the wdiite is produced f amtly along vems 2 and 3 ; 

 discal hyaline spot rounded, touching the outer band, edged with 

 white and black; outer band w^hite, strongly crenulate within and 

 edged with black, edged with pow^dery red without; submarginal 

 space powdered with lilacine on its basal half throughout, the follow- 

 ing clay-colored space edged with browTi and divided by the veins 

 and intravenular scallops into geminate patches; of these the sub- 

 apical one contains three black spots; a white line from the apex 

 with two teeth above limits the subapical pale lilacine area. Marginal 

 space wiiite within, clay-colored without, cut by the veins. Hind 

 wing similarly colored, the um^er band slight and concave; sub- 

 marginal clay-colored band nearly fUled by dumb-bell-shaped spots, 

 black at their ends, red in the centers, followed by a dark line and 

 little white patches near margin, representing the submarginal white 

 of the fore wing. Expanse, 90 mm. 



Type. — One male. No. 13855, U.S.N. M., Salina Cruz, State of 

 Oaxaca, Mexico, September, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



This species was determined as new^ by ^Ir. Schaus. 



Genus AGAPEMA Neunnoegen and Dyar. 



AGAPEMA COPAXOroES, new species. 



Gray brow^n, the collar brownish wiiite. Wings darker at the base 

 without distinct inner line; discal mark rosy red, ringed with black, 

 with linear hyaline center; outer line zigzag, linear, blackish, but 

 defined cliiefly by the following pale marginal space, which shades 

 again darker to the edge; an apical wiiite dash on fore wing with a 

 crimson and black spot inwardly. On the hind wing the marginal 

 space is less pale and the black zigzag line therefore less distinct. 

 Expanse, 78 mm. 



