NEW HETEROCEROTJS MOTHS — SCHATJS 499 



Expanse: 110 mm. 

 Habitat. — Colombia, 

 T^/^g.— U.S.N.M. No. 34755. 



Genus XYLOPHANES Hiibner 



XYLOPHANES CANTEL, new species 



Male. — Palpus vinaceous; collar and thorax medially verona brown; 

 a white line from head becoming pinkish gray, with a black line later- 

 ally on thorax; metathorax laterially with pinkish suffusions; abdo- 

 men dorsally at base seal brown, the following segments dull smoky 

 gray, with broken black lines and isolated points, laterally roseate; 

 underneath pale congo pink. Fore wing with the lines more intensely 

 marked than in katharinae Clark; the subterminal fascia on hind 

 wing is reduced to a few spots near anal angle. The underside is 

 similar to other species, and they all belong to one group. 



Expanse: 95 mm. 



Habitat. — Mexico . 



Type.— V.S.N. M. No. 34756. 



Family SATURNIIDAE 



Genus ROTHSCHILDIA Grote 



ROTHSCHILDIA MUSSEHU, new species 



Male. — Antennae yellowish; vertex fuscous; collar anteriorly white, 

 posteriorly and thorax blackish red-purple; a white band across base 

 of abdomen; abdomen otherwise mahogany red above; a fine white 

 dorsal line; a sublateral broader white line with black points on seg- 

 ments, between the lines transverse black lines on segments; abdomen 

 below with a medial double roseate line not reaching base or anal 

 segment. Fore wing: A large grayish purple patch at base edged by 

 a fine and irregular antemedial white line from costa to inner margin ; 

 medial space blackish red-purple to a postmedial incurved white line 

 from costa interrupted by the point of a large hyaline spot, which is 

 excurved on basal side below the interrupted point of the postmedial 

 line; it continues wavily inbent to inner margm where it contacts with 

 the postmedial line of the hind wing; the apex of fore wing is broadly 

 extended and somewhat paler than the medial spare; from the apex a 

 v/hite and pinkish line is wavily inbent toward the incurve of the post- 

 medial line and is edged below by an irregular black line which be- 

 comes double, edging a series of buffy-citrme spots including the ter- 

 men; at apex the term en is paler. Hind wing: The base of inner 

 margin somewhat paler with the edge pinkish white; medial space as 

 on fore wing, the postmedial very wavy and dentate, medially touched 

 by the point of a large hyaline spot, less excurved than the spot on the 

 fore wing; subterminal space broadly aegus brown, paler toward inner 



