June. 1896] ScHAUS : New Species OF Heterocera. 59 



and the median nervure the veins are whitish ; fringe cream color. Secondaries 

 creamy with the veins and some scales at the base darker. 



9 . Almost entirely smoky brown ; the fringe cream color ; at the base and 

 near the apex of the primaries some white scales ; the median space mottled with 

 blackish crinkly scales. Expanse $ 34 mm. 9 5° "^^■ 



Habitat : Orizaba, Mexico. 



Named after my assistant collector, Mateo Trujillo, 



Citheronia aroa, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax reddish, the latter yellow beneath the patagias. Abdomen 

 red with transverse yellow bands. Primaries above mouse gray ; a bright yellow 

 spot at the base ; an orange spot in the cell and a large similar spot below the me- 

 diart vein ; an outer row of orange spots from near the apex to the inner margin, fol- 

 lowed by a broad irregular orange band. Secondaries orange, shaded with red at the 

 base ; a red spot in the cell and a narrow transverse dark red line, shaded with 

 gray at the anal angle. Underneath the markings are the same as in C. inexicana 

 Grote & Rob., to which this species comes nearest. Expanse ^ 85 mm. 



Habitat : Aroa, Venezuela. 



Citheronia azteca, sp. nov. 



Head red with some white hairs under the antennse. Collar white, broadly 

 margined with red posteriorly. Thorax red with three yellow lines. Abdomen red ; 

 a large white subdorsal spot at the base and a fine yellowish band posteriorly on each 

 segment. Primaries gray with all the veins broadly red ; at the base two creamy 

 spots ; a similar spot at the end of the cell and an outer row of transverse creamy 

 spots between the veins; fringe on the inner margin red. Secondaries above bright 

 yellow, the veins red ; a large red space at the base and a red spot at the end of the 

 ■cell ; a transverse narrow gray shade to the anal angle and some grayish spots be- 

 tween the veins on the outer margin. In the 9 t'le secondaries have the yellow 

 replaced by gray with two wavy yellow transverse bands. Expanse $ 105 mm. 

 9 loS mm. 



Habitat : Jalapa, Mexico. 



Allied to C. splendens Druce, but quite distinct. 



Adelocephala acuta, sp. nov. 



Body pinkish fawn color. Primaries very acute at the apex, reddish fawn color 

 shaded with lilacine at the base and on the outer margin ; two fine transverse brown 

 lines, one from near the middle of the costa to the inner margin at a third from the 

 base, the other from the apex to the inner margin at two-thirds from the base ; in the 

 cell an indistinct grayish spot containing a minute white point. Secondaries reddish 

 fawn color with a large cluster of dark red hairs on the inner margin. Underneath 

 the primaries are orange with a triangular gray tpace occupying the outer margin 

 and a large black spot with a white point at the end of the cell. Secondaries fawn 

 color with an indistinct transverse line. Expanse $ 55 mm. 



Habitat : Aroa, Venezuela. 



