132 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Type, female, allotype, male. No. 21728, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 female, Orizaba, Mexico, October, 1907 (R. Miiller) ; male, 

 Jalapa, Mexico (Schatis collection), labelled H. azteca Schaus, 

 from which it differs in its smaller size, redder color and ab- 

 sence of the claviform. 



Subfamily CUCULLIIN^ 



Rhizotype cristifer, new species. 



Prothorax with a long, divided, pencil-like crest. Body parts 

 dark gray. Fore wing with the apex sharp, outer margin 

 straight to vein 4, then rounded. Dark brownish gray ; reni- 

 form and orbicular large, contiguous, outlined by white scales, 

 darker filled; an obscure dark shade line obliquely from reni- 

 form to inner margin ; outer line sinuate, smooth, dark, edged 

 with gray without, faint ; subterminal line a sinuate row of pale 

 spots ; a dentate whitish terminal line. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous, paler at base ; an ill-defined discal mark and traces of 

 a dark band just beyond it. Expanse, 22 mm. 



Type, male. No. 21729, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Zacualpan, Mexico, 

 October, 1917 (R. Miiller). 



Rhizotype senescens, new species. 



Warm brown, many scales white-tipped. Fore wing warm 

 brown, basal, median and terminal spaces shaded with dark 

 brown ; lines picked out in white scales ; subbasal line arcuate ; 

 inner line more strongly curved, only partly traced ; outer line 

 somewhat sinuate ; orbicular and reniform large, separate, white 

 ringed, filled with concolorous ground ; subterminal space light, 

 the veins darker, with a row of white specks on them just 

 beyond outer line; subterminal line a row of whitish spots on 

 the interspaces ; a terminal crenulate white line forming spots 

 on the veins, incompletely traced elsewhere. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, a little ocherous at base ; discal mark dark and 

 traces of a line beyond it. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Type, female. No. 21730, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Tehuacan, 

 Mexico, October, 1917 (R. Miiller). 



