268 NOCTUID^. 



abdomen fuscous brown, the dorsal crests rufous, the ventral surface 

 greyish. Fore wing pale brown, irrorated and in parts suffused 

 with fuscous, especially on inner medial area ; subbasal line double 

 at costa, with a black streak from its extremity above vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double towards costa, the outer line strong, 

 minutely waved, excurved above inner margin ; claviform slightly 

 defined by fuscous, with a black streak from its lower extremity to 

 postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform rather pale defined by 

 fuscous, the former round, the latter with traces of whitish annulus 

 or pale points on its outer edge ; a sinuous medial line oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; postmedial line indistinctly double, the inner 

 line strong, slightly bent outwards below costa, then slightly waved, 

 oblique to above vein 4, then filled in with white and incurved, 

 crossed by a black streak from lower extremity of reniform to 

 termen ; the postmedial area with some white suffusion ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, dentate, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules. Hind wing deep fuscous brown, 

 with pale postmedial striga on vein 1, some subterminai marks 

 towards tornus and slight marks on termen before the fine terminal 

 line ; cilia whitish and fuscous ; the underside grey-white irrorated 

 with brown, an oblique antemedial line, discoidal lunule, irregularly 

 crenulate postmedial line, and diffused subterminai band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas ; Mexico, Jalapa (yrwJiZZo), 2 5 tj^pe, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. : Paeagtjay, Sapucay {Foster), 4 5 . Exp. 42-46 millim. 



*3062. Cropia poliomera. (Plate CXV. fig. 1.) 



Cropia foliomera, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 157. 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; tegulae white 

 with faint pale rufous medial line ; tarsi with slight pale rings ; 

 abdomen red-brown mixed with whitish. Fore wing red-brown 

 with a silvery-grey gloss to postmedial line ; the postmedial area 

 greyish variegated with brown and with a dark brown patch on 

 costal area, the terminal area brown irrorated with white ; some 

 whitish at base ; subbasal line represented by indistinct double 

 black striae from costa and cell ; a slight diffused black streak above 

 vein 1 near base ; antemedial line double filled in with greyish, 

 angled outwards below costa, then minutely waved and oblique to 

 above inner margin, then bent inwards ; claviform small, indis- 

 tinctly defined by black ; orbicular defined by black and with faint 

 greyish annulus, round ; reniform white, ill-defined and with brown 

 lunule on inner side of centre ; medial line black, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 white, indistinct from cqsta to vein 3, bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 6, then minutely dentate, slightly bent inwards at 

 vein 3 and oblique to inner margin, some white points beyond it on 



