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markings paler, hut otherwise the same, except that the front is 

 smooth. This second specimen, therefore, would fall in the genus 

 i 'irphis. 



Type. Cat. No. 12981, I'.S.X.M. 



The type with the roughened fronl belongs to the genus Meliana, 

 but if this prove to he an abnormality and the species belongs to 

 Cirphis, then it will fall near Cirphis multilinea Walker. 



Genus HOMONCOCNEMIS Hampson. 



HOMONCOCNEMIS POLIAFASCIES, new species. 



Bluish gray, collar, patagia, and end of thorax touched with rust 

 yellow. Fore wing bluish gray, powdered with black and shaded 

 in lower half of median space and beyond reniform; lines single, 

 dentate on the veins, black, the outer line with white points at the 

 ends of the dentations; claviform small, orbicular elliptical, reni- 

 form compressed, but with deep emargination, the spots filled in 

 largely with rust-yellow scales; these scales also edge the inner line 

 within, lill in the lunules of the outer lines below and stain the sub- 

 terminal line, especially at anal angle; costa with small black marks 

 and four while points before apex; outer line near the margin, 

 whitish, wavy, powdery and clouded, but well contrasted. Hind 

 wing black, the interspaces below the cell whitish, the fringe pale with 

 black central line, Expanse, 35 mm. 



One female, Zacualpan, Mexico. September. 1009 (R. Muller). 



Type.— Cat. No. 12082, U.S.N.M. 



Genus CROPIA Walker. 



CROPIA EUROPS, new species. 



Head and thorax dark brown, shading to black; abdomen brown, 

 the dorsal tufts darker. Fore wing dark brown, shaded with black 

 and blue basally and broadly along submcdian space to outer mar- 

 gin, again in a dash between veins 4 and ."> ; subbasal line gemi- 

 nate, crenulate, black; inner line similar, both obscure; claviform 

 large, elliptical; orbicular similar; reniform very large, a black line, 

 Idled with the brown ground color, a pale brownish lunule near 

 it- center; median line oblique from costa to reniform, lost below; 

 outer line black, faintly doubled, wavy, roundedly produced outward 

 at vein I; an irregular clear brownish ocherous space centrally sub- 

 terminally, forming an expansion of the subterminal line, which is 

 of this color, powdery, broken, waved, situated near the margin; 

 irregular black saggitate marks are enclosed in the light subterminal 

 area: fringe stained with reddish brown. Hind wing brown, with 

 an outer fine wavy black line; a series of illy defined ocherous spot- 

 tings sub terminal^ ; fringe as on fore win-. Expanse. .">."> mm. 



