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CRYPSITYLA SUBROSEA Warren. 



This species was descril)C(:l from '2 males from Colombia: a female 

 from Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil, appears to })e inseparable; but the 

 hind tibia' have only terminal spurs, as in Sterrha^ and not a vestig-e 

 of the single median spur, characteristic of the females of Cnip^'dyla 

 and CaJyptoconii'. J have met with more than one instance of similar 

 al)sence of the single median spur in other species of these g-enera, and 

 attributed it in each case to accidental breakage; l)ut it seems probable 

 that such cases are rather due to a further extension to both ""middle 

 spurs of the already existing- tendency in the genei-a to atrophy of the 

 one, the females in these instances suggesting a species of Stcrrha. 



CRYPSITYLA SUBRUBELLA, new species. 



Foreming. — Deep purplish plum-color; the costa broadly and all the 

 lines more narrowly and neatly than \\\ pannarla Guenee, olive-ochre- 

 ous, without any vestige of dark edging; the fringe similarly darker. 



lUndwlny. — Similar. 



Under side of l)oth wings uniform deep ros}'; Ihe tuft of hair on 

 costa of hindwing and the mealy scales between vein 1 and the median 

 3'ellowish. 



Head and dorsum deep purple; shoulders, patagia, thorax, and a line 

 along middle of dorsum olive-ochreous; under side of abdomen and 

 legs ochreous; forelegs deep rosy in front. 



E.tpanse of wings. — ID mm. 



LoeaUties. — St. Jean, Maroni River; 1 male, July, 1904; Cayenne, 

 French Guiana, 3 males, February, ll»<)4, and December, 1903. 



Distinguished by the deep red under side of both wings. 



Type.—Q'Ai. No! 9L>Ln, U.S.N.M. 



CRYPSITYLA TURBATA Walker. 



This species appears to be widely spread and variable to some extent, 

 according to locality. Of three examples from Orizaba, 1 male, 1 

 female have the bi'own markings simple; the other female has the pale 

 edging, while 2 males from Guadalajara both show the yellow mark- 

 ings clearly. Two females from Castro, Parana, and 1 female from 

 Sao Paulo vary in a similar way. I have seen a female from Merida, 

 Venezuela. Walker's type was from Brazil. 



All the examples seen agree in having the median shade elbowed 

 and swollen across veins 2 and 3 and the pale fringe with orange-red 

 speckling in the basal half. 



One female from Orizaba, Mexico, is wholly deep purple in both 



wings, with the lines where visible deeper; the al)domen like the 



! wings, but the prothorax and base of costa olive-ochreous. The under 



