142 Mr. W. J. Kaye's Preliminary Catalogue of the 



Family CERATOCAMPID^. 



Citheronia mexicana, Grote and Rob., Ann. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. N. York, viii, p. 382, t. 13, f. 1. 



Range. Mexico. 



Maraval Valley ( W. J. Kaye). 



The occurrence of this species is remarkable, there can 

 hardly be a doubt as to its identity. 



Citheronia magnifica, Wlk., Cat. Het., vi, p. 1373 



(1855). 



Range. Brazil; Nicaragua; Mexico. 

 In the National Collection. 



Family EUPTEROTIDiE. 



Apatelodes basifulva, n. sp. (Plate VI, rig. 17.) 



Forewing yellow, much dusted with fulvous ; first line and post- 

 medial line darker, well defined, the post-medial much angulated at 

 vein 5 ; discoidal spot distinct ; between the first line and base 

 the portion is filled up with irrorated fulvons, and within the patch 

 is , a faint indication of another line parallel with that forming the 

 termination of the darker patch ; margins paler with a well-defined 

 scalloped marking traversing the sub-marginal area of the wing ; 

 immediately before the apex is a small darker patch extending 

 down to vein 5. Hindwing paler yellow with medial line, darker 

 near the discoidal cross vein, the two lines uniting at the lower 

 angle of the cell. 



Taken in June ( W. J. Kaye). 



There is a co-type in National Collection. 



Tarchon cuprea, n. sp. (Plate VI, fig. 11.) 



Forewing shining coppery-brown ; between veins 6 and 7, close 

 to margin of wing, is an elongated cream-coloured mark ; discoidal 

 spot darker than ground colour and shaped somewhat triangularly ; 

 a faint indication of a line runs beyond the middle from the costa to 

 inner margin, in the <$ this is nearly straight from vein 4, but in 

 the <j? is considerably less so ; from the costa to vein 4 in both 

 sexes the line is indented. Hindwing of the same colour with a 



