5b NOCTTJIDJE. 



small points with some yellow at ceutres, the former round ; 

 a waved postmedial band expanding at costa and inner margin ; a 

 terminal series of cupreous-red points; cilia greenish yellow, pink at 

 tips. Hind wing yellowish white, the apical area down to vein 4 

 tinged with rufous. 



• Hob. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver in U.S. Nat. Mus., New Mexico, 

 Las Vegas. Exp. 36 millim. 



4361. Erythroecia rhodophora, n. sp. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 4.) 



S . Head and thorax bright crimson, the latter mixed with pale 

 ochreous ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the fore and mid femora 

 fringed with crimson hair and the tibiae crimson ; abdomen ochreous 

 white dorsally suffused with brown. Pore wing ochreous white ; 

 the costal area suffused with bright crimson to near middle ; two 

 slight crimson spots in basal part of cell ; a broad oblique diffused 

 antemedial crimson band from cell to just above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform crimson, the former round, the latter 

 irregular and with slight ochreous lunule in centre ; postmedial 

 area crimson, its outer edge angled outwards below vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle and to termen towards tornus ; a terminal series 

 of slight crimson lunules. Hind wing ochreous white mostly 

 suffused with fuscous brown, the veins and termen slightly tinged 

 with crimson ; the underside ochreous white, the veins tinged with 

 crimson, an indistinct diffused crimson postmedial line, the terminal 

 area slightly irrorated with crimson. 



Hob. Guatemala, Capitello {Rodriguez), 1 3 type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus COPIFRONTIA. Type 



Copifrontia, Hrnpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 433 (1905) ... xantheryihra. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, rather slenderly 

 scaled, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of irons, the 3rd moderate ; 

 irons with vertical ridge-like corneous process, rounded in front ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna; of male with uniserrate serrations ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the vertex of 

 thorax with ridge-like crest ; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only. Fure wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell : 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully 

 developed from well above angle ; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



4362. Copifrontia xantherythra. 



Copifrontia xantherythra, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 433 (1905). 



3 . Head and thorax bright yellow ; palpi above and frons 

 purplish pink; antennas rufous; tegulse, patagia, and vertex of 



