CICINNUS. By Dr. W. Schaus. 
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with black striae and scales forming a vague medial shade and irregular outer line. Expanse, male type’ 
54 mm. The female has the outer half of hindwing much paler and with only a faint reddish terminal patch 
on forewing. Expanse: female, 63 mm. Tuis, Juan Virias, Costa Rica. Other specimens from Guatemala which 
I can hardly separate measure 36 mm and have the apex less acute. From Venadio, Mexico we have small 
specimens, but much paler. 
C. narseres sp. nov. Male : Body and wings cinnamon buff; a few black scales on base of ab- narseres. 
domen. Wings shorter and broader than in marona ; the lines fine, tawny olive. Forewing: antemedial line 
barely traceable; discal spot small, black; outer line more remote from apex, slightly excurved on costa; a few 
black scattered scales. Hindwing: the line medial; a few black scales at base and beyond line. Expanse: 
45—50 mm. Rio Songo, Bolivia. Type in the U. S. National Museum. 
C. melsheimeri Harris (= egenaria Wlcr.) (87 g). Male: Body and wings pale cinnamon pink varying to melsheimeri. 
drab grey, irrorated with hair brown scales, the wings sometimes suffused partly with roseate. Wings: the 
lines very fine or more heavily marked, fuscous, especially in Mexican specimens. Forewing with an ante- 
medial inbent line, frequently obsolete; postmedial line outangled between veins 7 and 8; a fuscous streak 
on discocellular; cilia tawny olive tipped with white. Hindwing with the line just beyond middle. Forewing 
below with basal half partly orange rufous or light vinaceous cinnamon; the postmedial line outcurved to vein 
3, then incurved. Hindwing below with the line remote, vertical from costa, angled and inbent from vein 3. 
Expanse: male, 33—45 mm; female, 43-—46 mm. United States to Hidalgo, Mexico. 
C. bilinea Schs. Male : Head and collar avellaneous; body pale ochraceous buff, with a few bilinea. 
scattered dark scales, the anal hairs natal brown and fuscous. Wings pale ochraceous buff with wood brown 
irrorations; cilia fuscous partly tipped with white. Fore wing: a fine buffy brown antemedial line slightly 
inbent; a similar postmedial line slightly outcurved; a faint darker line on discocellular; termen narrowly 
ochraceous salmon. Hindwing with a fine medial line. Forewing below with no antemedial line. Hindwing below 
with the line postmedial and slightly outcurved. Expanse: male, 31 mm; female, 40mm. Castro, Parana. 
C. primolus sp. nov. (87 g). Female: Body and wings pale pinkish buff irrorated with fuscous; collar primblus. 
light pinkish cinnamon. Wings: veins on outer margin, and termen narrowly carrot red; cilia light brow- 
nish olive tipped with white; postmedial line fuscous. Forewing: costal edge cinnamon; a faint smoky ante- 
medial shade, outangled on costa; a faint dark line on discocellular; postmedial line fine obliquely downbent, 
angled at vein 7 and inbent. Hinclwing: the line medial. Wings below more thickly irrorated with fuscous. 
Forewing: a small whitish spot at discocellular; line thicker, slightly outbent to vein 4, then incurved; veins 
from cell, and a patch on termen from vein 7, below 4 forming a narrow line to tornus carrot red. Hind- 
wing: the line postmedial, vertical and excurved to vein 5 somewhat outcurved across veins 4 and 3, and 
inbent to inner margin. Expanse: 37 mm. No locality on specimen. Type in Berlin Museum, ex Collection 
Staudinger. Wing shape as in bilinea, the lines very different. 
C. putidula Dogn. (87 g). Male: Body greyish olive with some black scales. Forewing: basal third putidula. 
whitish expanding to beyond cell and on costa to outer line, irrorated with dark greyish olive and black; 
a faint medial pinkish cinnamon shade on which is a sayal brown discocellular point; costa] edge sayal brown; 
outer line white outbent from costa with a small dark spot on it, sharply angled at vein 8 near termen, 
slightly inbent to inner margin, almost subterminal, the outer edge diffusely white, inwardly with a broad 
deep greyish olive shade, and a similar shade along termen. Hindwing to line and on termen deep greyish 
olive; line white, outwardly diffuse from costa before apex, straight to anal angle; a whitish shade medially 
Forewing below as above but the cell and costa to outer line suffused with pinkish cinnamon. Hindwing 
below light drab; line fine, dark greyish olive, subterminal and slightly irregular. Expanse: 40 mm. San 
Antonio, Cali, Colombia. Forewing with apex acute, the outer margin straight, the hindwing with anal angle 
acute. »■. 
Group 4. 
The following species have the wings usually more produced and acute; they are also somehat larger and more robust. 
C. joanna Schs. $ (= lacuna Schs. <$) (87 g). Male: Head and thorax light vinaceous cinnamon. Ab- joanna. 
domen pinkish buff, the anal hairs snuff brown tipped with fuscous black. Forewing light pinkish cinnamon to 
line, also costa to apex; the medial area from cell to inner margin light pinkish cinnamon; a black point 
on discocellular; a postmedial thick fuscous line, inbent from costa to inner margin followed by a finer 
line, not reaching costa, and then by a dark shade upcurved to apex; the space between the lines cinnamon 
drab; termen pale brownish drab. Hindwing light pinkish cinnamon from base to line and along inner margin 
to angle; the lines as on forewing, the first almost medial, not reaching inner margin. Wings below paler 
