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dusted reddish-brown and strewn with a dark tinge, exhibit a broad, red-brown median band between 2 irregular 
transverse lines. Hindwings whitish, dusted brown. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Costa Rica. 
C. roseata Hmps. (33 m) has beside the subcostal fold a hairy spot in the cell-end and a curved hair- roseata. 
stripe in the submedian space on the forewing beneath. Forewings yellowish rosy with brownish spots and 
transverse lines. Hindwings light yellow. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Brazil (Petropolis). 
C. abnormis Schs. (33 m). Body yellowish white, also the forewings which, for the greatest part, except abnormis. 
the costal margin and the apical third, are dusted chrome-yellow; the light apical third is bordered by an oblique 
dark line; an anterior transverse line is indistinct. Hindwings yellowish-white with a large dark spot in the 
middle of the margin. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. French Guiana. 
C. subleis Schs. (34 m). The exhibits only a large, brown scent-scale spot at and behind the cell-end sublets. 
of the forewing beneath, the hindwings above a long black scent-scale stripe below the costal margin. Forewings 
greyish-white, dusted brownish, particularly in the middle area; before and in the middle single black dots, 
behind it a dentate transverse line. Hindwings brownish-grey. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. French Guiana. 
C. inleis Schs. (34 m) is a similar small species recognizable by the absence of the lowest subcostal inleis. 
vein on the forewing. The ground-colour is a light red-brown, scantily strewn with a darker tinge, with single 
small black dots; before the apex with a small dark spot. Hindwings yellowish-white with a small cliscal spot. 
Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Brazil. 
C. errninea Schs. (32 m). Purely white, with black costal-marginal spots and a dark, blackish marginal crminea. 
area. Expanse of wingsr 14 mm. Brazil: Castro (Parana). 
C. cernitis Drc. (33 m) is a larger, grey species. Forewings with a blackened base of the costal- cemitis. 
margin; before and in the middle finely dentate, dark transverse lines; between the median line and a post¬ 
median row of dots there is, at the costal margin, a triangular dark spot; before the margin a faded, twice angled 
line; at the margin itself there are black streaks and small spots. Hindwings blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 
20 mm. Mexico (Guerrero). 
C. distincta Schs. (33 m) entirely resembles acropera by the shape of the wings. The colour is blackish- distincta. 
brown with a leaden lustre; faded, darker lines are before and in the middle; a postmedian row of dots is distally 
tinged whitish; marginal area still darker with a line of whitish dots before the fringes. Expanse of wings: 
20 mm. Trinidad. 
C. centralis Hmps. (33 m). Ground-colour brown, vertex, collar and anal tuft whitish. Forewings centralis. 
strewn with black, with a black discal dot, and finely dentate, antemedian and postmedian transverse lines 
being outside bordered with whitish; behind them dark dots on the veins, and before the margin a line of white 
dots. Hindwings blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Guatemala; Panama. 
C. quinqueferana WTcr. (33 m) is a very small, red-brown species with indistinct oblique transverse quinque- 
lines and a dark discal spot. Fringes whitish, at the apex and middle darkened. Hindwings whitish, at the ferana. 
margin brownish. Expanse of wings: 14 mm. Widely distributed from Mexico, Panama through Brazil as 
far as Peru. 
C. russata Hmps. (= vulgaris Drc.) (33 in) greatly resembles the preceding, but it is much larger russata. 
and differs by much lighter hindwings; on the forewing the transverse lines are more distinct and more complete. 
Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Costa Rica. — In the form: nigriplaga nov. (33m) there is in the middle of the nigriplaga. 
proximal margin a large, black spot; infuscata form. nov. (33 m) is entirely darkened by black. infuscata. 
C. nubila Jones (33 p). Head, thorax and forewings yellowish white, the latter dusted red-brown nubila. 
and strewn with black, particularly in the basal and marginal area; close behind the base a curved black line, 
behind it a black nebulous band, followed by a row of dots; the middle is crossed by a strongly undulate trans¬ 
verse line; at the cell-end a black streak with a black dot below it; beyond the middle a row of black dots, 
and before the margin a black macular band, on the margin black streaks. Abdomen and hindwings white, the 
latter at the proximal and distal margins dusted red-brown. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Brazil. 
C. parapatella Dogn. (33 m) greatly resembles nubila, but it is larger, more grey, dusted brown, parapatellt 
particularly the abdomen much darker; on the forewing there is no shade behind the black subbasal line. Ex¬ 
panse of wings: 22 mm. Ecuador. 
C. mesomma Dogn. (33 n) is one of the largest species, the wings very large and broad compared mesomma. 
with the slender, slim abdomen. Greyish-white, dusted reddish-brown. Very characteristic is the small eye- 
spot formed by the cell-end spot being encircled by the median line. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Colombia. 
C. mucida Schs. (33 p) is whitish, dusted and strewn with dark-brown, in the distal half of the median mucida. 
area suffused with red-brown in the shape of a transverse band, with the usual transverse lines and dots. Hind¬ 
wings blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Costa Rica. 
