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intermixed with yellow hairs, only the last 2 rings with black bands. Forewing yellowish-white, basally somewhat 
brownish, only a double yellowish feeble postmedian line is present, being regularly dentate, parallel to the 
margin, at the costal margin the portions are somewhat more separated; at the cell-end a chalk-white discal 
crescent surrounded by black; cross-vein below the rise of vein 5 introangular. Hindwing without a cellular 
spot and lines. Patagonia. 
C. vulpitia Phil. (117 C a). Ground-colour light greyish-white, feebly mixed with yellowish-brown; vulpina. 
transverse lines very similar to those of the preceding species; discal spot white surrounded by blackish; sub¬ 
terminal band black, strongly notched, towards the costal margin ending into the apex, the margin behind it, 
especially at the apex and tornus almost white. Hindwing light yellowish-white with 2 faint transverse bands, 
particularly the interior one almost extinct, the exterior one often broader and darker. Thorax grey, in the 
centre fox-coloured, abdomen above black, with narrow yellow rings; anus fox-coloured. Chile. 
C. nigrolutea Bouv. is another smaller species distinguished by the yellow ground-colour of the forewing, nigroluiea. 
Forewing relatively narrow, in some places of the yellow ground strewn with a blackish grey; veins scarcely 
darker; transverse lines as in vulpina , the discal spot somewhat oval, yellowish-white; submarginal line less 
irregular, less sharply defined than in the other species, distally to it between the veins large black marginal 
spots; fringes in both wings yellow. Body quite black, also the ventral side, only the anus and lateral segmental 
lines yellow like the head; the spatulate hairs on the thorax have yellow tips. Expanse of wings: 55 mm. 
Described according to 4 from Patagonia. 
C. lupina sp. n. (117 C a) is very similar to the preceding species, forewing more intensely dusted with lupina. 
black, in the whole marginal area somewhat more ochreous; transverse lines more separated, the anterior one 
on the median vein and vein 1 with very long and pointed distal notches, the posterior one straight, near the 
margin, in vulpina more curved and at the costal margin bent inwards. Hindwing at the margin broadly smoked, 
enclosing a white undulate subterminal line which is especially distinct in the $. Abdomen above quite black, 
laterally, beneath and at the anus rusty yellow. According to a couple from Chile, from the Coll. Bang-Ha as. 
C. murina sp. n. (117 C a) has narrower wings than the species hitherto known, scantily scaled and of a murina. 
monotonous sooty black colour; both the flatly notched transverse stripes are similar as in the following 
nigrosignata, especially the antemedian one at the costal margin expanded into a small grey spots; the small 
crescentiform cellular spot in a darker longitudinal patch: subterminal line scarcely recognizable. Hindwing 
more scantily scaled, semidiaphanous grey, without markings, fringe darker. Body greyish-black, abdomen 
with few yellowish-grey hairs. Chile (Valdivia); type 1 $ e Coll. Stgr. in the Berlin Museum. 
C. nigrosignata Phil. (= luperina Pack. ? i. 1.) (117 C a). Forewing on the greyish-white ground strewn nigrosig- 
with black, basally and in the marginal area mostly brownish-ochreous; the notched transverse lines are 
expanded into spots at the costal margin, on the inverted sides bordered with white; the whitish subterminal 
line close before the margin which is crossed by black vein-triangles. Hindwing pale yellowish-grey, in the 
marginal half more brownish, with 2 postmedian transverse bands, the interior one mostly narrower, between 
4 and 5 far produced towards the margin; margin and fringe crossed by black vein-triangles. Abdomen above 
almost black, base, ventrum and anus rusty brown. Chile (Valdivia). In the Senckenberg Museum, Francfort 
on the Main, a couple labled: “ luperina ”, which name presumably refers to the note and sketch of the neuration 
in Packard’s Monography 1914. 
II. Group: abdomen above without spatulate hairs: (Thauma H.-Edw.). 
C. joiceyi Bouv. ined. (117 Bd) and the following species form a special group: cinnamon-brown; joiceyi. 
thorax intermixed with whitish-grey hairs, abdomen more yellowish-brown. Forewing with 2 very deeply 
notched black transverse lines, on the inverted sides, especially at the costal margin, bordered with white, and 
between them a large yolk-coloured, outside and inside tridentate discal spot; median area often somewhat 
blackish; subterminal line hardly discernible. Hindwing less scaled, greyer with traces of a yellow discal spot, 
and a feeble black postmedian line and a very indistinct or absent subterminal line. Chile. In the Berlin 
Museum 3 and 1 $ from Valdivia and Puerto Montt, in the Hill Museum according to the kind information 
by Bouvier 2 1 J. We gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity of keeping up the name proposed by the 
latter author, so as to express our gratitude to the owner of the Hill Museum who provided us, by Mr. Talbot, 
with many valuable explanations and many figures of types. 
C. socialis Feisth. (= angulifera Wkr., ribesii Ii.-Edw., ribis Ky.) (117 C b). For this species the genus socialis. 
Thauma was established. Separated from joiceyi by the antennae being pectinated also in the $; the colour 
is cinnamon-brown, more or less huecl with ash-grey; antemedian transverse line oblique, the posterior one near 
the costal margin bent towards the apex, both on the inverted sides bordered with white; at the cell-end a 
white triangular spot, on the median vein more or less produced towards the base. Hindwing with a white 
discal streak and behind it a grey transverse line or band. Abdomen reddish-yellow, in the redder <§ with black 
rings. Chile; Peru, and most peculiarly reported (presumably imported) from North America (Brit. Columbia). 
Larva above light green, beneath light red or green, with a white lateral line edged with red-brown; on each 
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