-hexekochroma. 



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waved ; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 indistinctly defined by whitish and black points, the former round ; 

 medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with white, bent outwards below 

 costa, then waved, oblique to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, Avith black spot 

 before it above vein 4 and streak beyond it, dentate, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle, then 



Fig. 42.— Cropia tcmplada, cJ . \. 



incurved ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing deep 

 reddish brown, with whitish postmedial mark on vein 1, some sub- 

 terminal marks towards tornus, and some marks on termen before the 

 waved black terminal line ; cilia whitish and fuscous ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with fuscous, an oblique antemedial line, discoidal 

 spot, minutely waved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 

 Hah. Mesiico, Oaxaca, typet 6 in U.S. Nat. Mus. : Guatemala 

 city [^Rodriguez), 1 c? , 1 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus HETEROCHROMA. ^^. ^ 



Heterochroma, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 69 (1852) eriopioides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate, upturned ; frons rounded; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antennae ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly witli 

 large rough scales, the pro- and nietathoi-ax with spreading crests; tibiae 

 Fringed with hair ; abdomen with la.rge dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore 

 wing with the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; li from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. Mid and hind tibite and Ist joint of tarsi of male fringed with very 

 long hair. 



3066. Heterochroma chloegrapha, n. sp. 



(S . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with ochreous and 

 whitish; palpi pale in front ; tegulse with dark brown medial line ; 

 tufts on mid and hind tibiae of male black-brown ; tarsi ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen red-brown, the dorsal crests tipped with grey, 



