250 PROCEEDINGS OF THE VATIONAL MUSEl If. vol. 38. 



CROPIA RUTILEA, new species. 



Antennae of the male with father long pectinations, decreasing to 

 serrations al the tip. Fore wing dark brown, lighter, ocherous tinted 

 in basal ami subterminal spaces; a white point at base; subbasal 

 line black; an obscure black line above vein 1; inner line black, 

 dislocated on subcosta, angled outward on submedian fold and on 

 vein 1; a black streak from the angle along submedian fold to outer 

 line; claviform illy defined, black; orbicular and reniform narrowly 

 black-ringed, large, the blackish shades within concentrically ar- 

 ranged; three black lines on costa, from the outer of which the outer 

 line starts, angled outward along subcostal vein, angled on vein 5, 

 verv faintly doubled and followed by a paler ocherous shade; sub- 

 terminal line pale ocherous, angled, broken, forming spots below; 

 a black line on vein 5 from outer line to margin, broken by the sub- 

 terininal line, a short black streak above it and two streaks on the 

 margin above anal angle; fringe dark. Hind wing dark brown, with 

 traces of an outer dark line; fringe irregularly ocherous spotted with 

 a dark line at its base. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Cuernavaca, Mexico, July, 1906 (W. Schaus); also specimens from 

 Guadalajara and Jalapa (Schaus collection), in all three males and 

 three females. 



Type. Cat. No. 12993, U.S.N.M. 



This species was confused in the collection with Cropia connecta 

 Smith, but it differs obviously therefrom in the smaller size, broader 

 wings, and the shape of the inner line of fore wings. 



CROPIA MINTHE Druce. 



This species i- before me from Venezuela and French Guiana, and 

 also a specimen from Misantla, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, the latter 

 -.cut by Mr. Midler. The male of this species has the antennae 

 tufted-ciliate, but without any trace of pectinations. Both wings 

 beneath are washed with a peculiar bright brassy metallic shading, 

 which is entirely absent in the female. It is allied to Cropia hifusa 

 Walker. I can not detect any difference in the shape of the inner 

 line in these two species such as indicated in Hampson's table. 3 



Tin- is the first record of this species from Mexico. 



CROPIA PERFUSA, new species. 



Male antenna' tufted-ciliate, the segments somewhat lamellate 

 beneath, but without pectinations. Line- geminate, black, the 

 innernearly straight, excurved onTj below vein I; basal and terminal 

 spaces <>f the brown ground color; median space entirely filled with 

 black, obscuring all the markings, except a small, pale crescent 



oClt. I., p. Phal. Brit. Mas., vol. 7, 1908, p. 263. 



