CROPIA. 261 



Sect. I. Antenn;e of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apical part 

 serrate. 



3052. Cropia subapicalis. 



Becelea subapicalis, Wlk. xiii. 1117 (1857). 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey 

 and some black ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen with the dorsal 

 crests more rufous, the ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing 

 reddish brown irrorated with black and mixed with some white ; 

 a white point at base; subbasal line black, double, waved, from 

 costa to vein 1, a black spot beyond its lower extremity ; antemedial 

 line double towards costa, angled outwards below costa, in sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black and with some 



Fig. 39. — Cropia subajncalis, J'. \. 



white points on their edges, the former rounded, the latter rather 

 irregular and extending to below cell ; an indistinct medial line 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then waved ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, filled in with whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, somewhat oblique to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa and a white patch 

 from below costa to vein 5 with a minutely waved brown line near 

 its outer edge ; subterminal line white, fine, with black spots before 

 it above veins 4 and 1 and streak beyond it above vein 4, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards in discal fold; a 

 terminal series of slight blackish lunules. Hind wing reddish 

 brown ; white and black striae on vein 1 above tornus, some slight 

 whitish subterminal marks towards tornus and others on termen ; 

 cilia white and brown ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 an indistinct oblique sinuous antemedial line, a discoidal lunule, 

 crenulate curved postmedial line, and indistinct diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. Haiti (Tweedie), 1 S type. Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. II. {Becelea). Antennae of male with short laminate branches. 



3053. Cropia indigna. 



Becelea indigna, Wlk. xiii. 1115 (1857). 

 Head and thorax rufous ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen 



