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EUCEREON BALERIS, new species. 



Head and thorax blackish brown, a little pale crimson in the neck. 

 Abdomen crimson above, a large triangular basal patch, the last seg- 

 ment, a row of dorsal dots and a lateral band black; venter salmon 

 pink except the last segment. Legs brown with pinkish rings at the. 

 joint-, the femora pinkish beneath and above. Fore wing dark 

 brown with numerous irregular yellowish brown markings; four 

 blackish spots along the costal edge; a round orbicular spot in the 

 cell, divided by a pale streak; a large spot at the end of the cell, 

 divided by the veins; a large spot at the base of vein 3; the other 

 spots of the usual transverse bands are narrow, elongate, and sepa- 

 rated by the paler veins and by cusp-shaped and lenticular yellowish 

 markings, of which, the most conspicuous is a zigzag subterminal 

 line cutting off a series of elongate marginal dots between the veins. 

 Hind wing whitish semihyaline in the disk, the veins, apex, and anal 

 angle broadly brown-black. Expanse, 41 mm. 



Santa Rosa, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, August, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Type.— Cut. No. 12943, U.S.N. M. 



Fifteen specimens from Santa Rosa. The species is nearest to 

 Kiicereon latifascia Walker, which also occurs at Santa Rosa, but the 

 dark markings are enlarged so as to almost solidly fill the wing with 

 only linear pale spaces between them. 



EUCEREON ERYTHROLEPSIS, new species. 



Head and thorax brownish gray, vertex and tegulae with black 

 dashes, patagia lined with black; abdomen crimson dorsally, a tri- 

 angular patch at the base, the terminal segment and lateral line 

 gray-black; venter centrally on head, thorax and abdomen pale 

 salmon pink, except the last two abdominal segments. Fore wing 

 pale brown-gray, the veins lined with darker gray; a s,-ries of narrow 

 elongate black marks between the veins: four marks on the costa, the 

 basal one narrow and oblique; four marks in the upper part of the 

 cell and a dash in the lower part; five narrow dashes along submedian 

 fold; live dashes on vein 1; a long thick dash above inner margin, 

 narrowing to the base, and one before tornus; above vein 2 are three 

 row- of da-he-, continued between the veins to the costa, the terminal 

 and subterminal rows being somewhal rounded and faintly ringed 

 b\ the pale ground color. Hind wing semihyaline on the disk, the 

 veins, apex, and anal angle black. Expanse, •">('» mm. 



Cordoba, Mexico, May, L906 (W. Schaus). 



Type. Cat. No. 1294 1. U.S.N. M. 



Other specimens from Jalapa (Schaus collection) and Orizaba (F. 

 BLnab), five in all. Allied to Eucereon j>tl<iii Walker, but paler, the 



