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HYDROECIODES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
compressi¬ 
puncta. 
cetebu. 
cirramela. 
alala. 
anastagia. 
tintebcla. 
r it aria. 
impica. 
azteca. 
t rarer sa. 
mulleri. 
H. compressipuncta Dyar (18 f) is one of the smallest; forewing orange, strewn with red-brown, 
particularly in the distal area dusted with purple brown; subbasal line double, filled up with orange, the anterior 
transverse line the same, forming 3 flat bows, the posterior line single, dentate, distally bordered with orange; 
in the place of the apex of the absent coniform macula a thick black dot; the upper maculae orange, the reniform 
macula below with 2 or 3 white dots; the yellow undulate line forms below the apex a large yellow spot, below 
it the marginal area projects very pointedly towards the base. Hindwing blackish-brown. Mexico (Zacualpan) 
in May and October. 
H. cetebu Dyar (18 f) is quite extraordinarily similar to compressipuncta, the antennae somewhat 
more serrate, with stronger ciliary tufts, of a more slender structure, with narrower wings, on which the orange 
ground-colour is more prominent, without the purple dusting of the distal part, particularly the yellow sub- 
terminal area appears more distinctly as an undulate band; the anterior transverse line forms 3 flat bows; the 
median line forms on the cellular fold an acute angle towards the base, on the lower angle of the cell a right 
angle towards the margin; the posterior transverse line is sharply dentate, the teeth being continued as 
black streaks on the veins as far as the margin; the reniform macula is broader, more square; all the rest as 
in the preceding species. Mexico (Zacualpan) in April. 
Sec t. IV. Antennae plain, ciliated. 
H. cirramela Dyar (18 g) in its exterior is very similar to compressipuncta, but distinguishable by 
its larger size and the other antennae; besides the coniform macula is finely encircled with red-brown, and the 
black dot is absent ; the cell and distal half of the discal area are blackish, the upper maculae are distinctly 
orange; the reniform macula is almost square with 5 white dots distally and one in the lower proximal angle. 
Hindwing blackish-grey. Mexico (Zacualpan), January and July. 
H. alala Drc. (18 g). Fore wing golden yellow, finely strewn with red-brown, with red-brown transverse 
lines, the subbasal line and anterior line double, the posterior line single dentate, between both a fine median 
line being rectangularly flawed at the lower angle of the cell; the 3 maculae are finely encircled with red-brown, 
with fine concentric proximal lines, behind them some lilac-grey dusting, being somewhat continued towards the 
apex; the marginal area behind the yellow, spotted undulate line is dusted with lavender-coloured grey. Hindwing 
light yellowish, towards the margin with a coppery reflection. Mexico (City, Zacualpan), October, November. 
H. anastagia Dyar (= alala subsp. 1 limps.) (18 g) is very similar to alala, dusted much darker, parti¬ 
cularly in the distal half of the wing, and more intensely marked; a very distinct oblique subbasal line extends 
from the angle of the proximal margin almost to the ring-macula; the reniform macula below with 3 thick white 
dots; also the hindwings are much darker brownish-grey with coppery reddish fringes. Mexico (Orizaba, Za¬ 
cualpan), July. 
H. tintefoela Dyar (18 g) is the species bearing the most contrasts, of a dark orange colour, in the 
marginal area and between the maculae darkened with almost purple black, turning coppery towards the fringes, 
the reniform macula without white dots. Very conspicuous are the coppery hindwings with lighter fringes. 
Mexico (Zacualpan), October and December. 
H. ritaria Schs. Forewing dark red, the extreme costal margin and the veins as well as the postmedian 
shade between the lower median and middle radial branch greyish black; basal area of a bright yellow, in it the 
undulate red subbasal line; the anterior transverse line is undulate, at the costal margin and beloAvthe cell towards 
the base marked yellow, the posterior line dark, likewise undulate, between both an indistinct dark median 
line; the ring-macula is a small, yellow, round spot, the reniform macula is yellow, strewn with red, below bor¬ 
dered with white; a subterminal row of black dots distally pupilled yellow, particularly in the upper half. Hind¬ 
wing of a silky dark brown with lighter fringes. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Mexico (Orizaba) and Guatemala. 
H. impica Dyar is on the forewing dark ochreous, densely strewn with red-brown, in the discal 
area dusted with blackish, in the marginal area monotonously dark brown; the proximal transverse line is 
dark brown and forms 3 bows, the distal one is dentate on the veins, between them a blackish median shade, 
being angular in the cell; maculae large, light, all 3 rounded, the reniform macula with a bent red line in 
the centre, bordered by yellow, partly confluent spots; the undulate line is only marked by the contrast of 
the two colours. Hindwing of a dingy whitish, veins and margin dark brown with reddish fringes. Expanse 
of wings: 33 mm. Mexico (Zacualpan) in December, described only according to 1 for which reason its 
position is not easily to be defined. 
H. azteca Schs. ’(18 g, h) has orange forewings densely strewn with brownish-red, with finely brown 
striped veins; the single brown transverse lines are on the averted sides bordered with yelloAV, the posterior 
line being very little dentate; very conspicuous is the thick median line extending almost straight from the 
reniform macula to the proximal-marginal end of the anterior transverse line; in the margining of the upper 
maculae yelloAvish or white dots; marginal area and proximal margin darkened with purple brown. Hindwing 
ochreous-grey with reddish fringes. Mexico, Avidely distributed. 
Ho traversa Dyar (18 h) is very similar, smaller, of a much brighter red, strewn with ochreous, without 
the coniform macula, the Tipper maculae without white dots, the hindAving somewhat lighter and more reddish. 
Mexico (Orizaba, Jalapa). 
li. mulleri sp. n. (18 h) is a small, very conspicuous species owing to the very abrupt greyish - 
brown marginal area, only apically there remains a small yellow spot; ground-colour otherwise ochreous-yellow, 
