June, 1896.] 
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and the median nervure the veins are whitish; fringe cream color. Secondaries 
creamy with the veins and some scales at the base darker. 
9. Almost entirely smoky brown; the fringe cream color; at the base and 
near the apex of the primaries some white scales; the median space mottled with 
blackish crinkly scales. Expanse $ 34 mm. 9 50 mm. 
Habitat: Orizaba, Mexico. 
Named after my assistant collector, Mateo Trujillo. 
Citheronia aroa, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax reddish, the latter yellow beneath the patagise. Abdomen 
red with transverse yellow bands. Primaries above mouse gray ; a bright yellow 
soot at the base ; an orange spot in the cell and a large similar spot below the me¬ 
dian vein ; an outer row of orange spots from near the apex to the inner margin, fol¬ 
lowed by a broad irregular orange band. Secondaries orange, shaded with red at the 
base ; a red spot in the cell and a narrow transverse dark red line, shaded with 
gray at the anal angle. Underneath the markings are the same as in C. mexicana 
Grote & Rob., to which this species comes nearest. Expanse $ 85 mm. 
Habitat: Aroa, Venezuela. 
Citheronia azteca, sp. nov. 
Head red with some white hairs under the antennae. Collar white, broadly 
margined with red posteriorly. Thorax red with three yellow lines. Abdomen red ; 
a large white subdorsal spot at the base and a fine yellowish band posteriorly on each 
segment. Primaries gray with all the veins broadly red; at the base two creamy 
spots ; a similar spot at the end of the cell and an outer row of transverse creamy 
spots between the veins; fringe on the inner margin red. Secondaries above bright 
yellow, the veins red; a large red space at the base and a red spot at the end of the 
cell; a transverse narrow gray shade to the anal angle and some grayish spots be¬ 
tween the veins on the outer margin. In the 9 the secondaries have the yellow 
replaced by gray with two wavy yellow transverse bands. Expanse g 105 mm. 
9 108 mm. 
Habitat: Jalapa, Mexico. 
Allied to C. splendens Druce, but quite distinct. 
Adelocephala acuta, sp. nov. 
Body pinkish fawn color. Primaries very acute at the apex, reddish fawn color 
shaded with lilacine at the base and on the outer margin ; two fine transverse brown 
lines, one from near the middle of the costa to the inner margin at a third from the 
base, the other from the apex to the inner margin at two-thirds from the base; in the 
cell an indistinct grayish spot containing a minute white point. Secondaries reddish 
fawn color with a large cluster of dark red hairs tin the inner margin. Underneath 
the primaries are orange with a triangular gray space occupying the outer margin 
and a large black spot with a white point at the end of the cell. Secondaries fawn 
color with an indistinct transverse line. Expanse 55 mm. 
Habitat: Aroa, Venezuela. 
