2O2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll 



Male and female, Orizaba, Mexico, April, 1908 (R. Miiller) ; 

 Male and two females Cuernavaca, Mexico, June and August, 

 1906 (W. Schaus) ; one female, Jalapa, two females, Oaxaca, 

 Mexico< (Schaus collection). 



Type, No. 13614, U. S. National Museum. 



Diatraea minimifacta, new species. 



A small square-winged species. The wing is darkly shaded through 

 the middle, obscuring the lines, which are sub-continuous and not re- 

 solved into dots ; veins brown-lined beyond this shade, terminal black 

 dots between the veins with white points before them relieved on the 

 brown ground. Hind wing white. Expanse, 18 mm. The front is 

 smooth and nearly flat. 



Two females, Trinidad, British West Indies (Schaus col- 

 lection, A. Busck). 



Type, No. 13615, U. S. National Museum. 

 Diatraea continens, new species. 



Fore wing straw yellow, the veins lined in brown, with faint lines 

 between; two brown oblique parallel lines joining a brown cloud at 

 apex ; terminal dots small black, discal dot brown. Hind wing white, 

 nearly pure. Front smooth and nearly flat. 



One female, Castro, Parana, Brazil (Schaus collection). 

 Type, No. 13616, U. S. National Museum. 



Diatraea pedibarbata, new species. 



Front smooth, rounded, slightly prominent; hind tarsi short, the 

 tibiae with a large tuft of hairs. Dark brown, the lines as usual but 

 not relieved, obscure against the dark ground. Body parts also dark, 

 but hind wing whitish, with only a slight straw-color tinge. Expanse, 

 23 mm. 



One male, St. Laurent, Maroni River, French Guiana (W. 

 . Schaus). 



Type, No. 13617, U. S. National Museum. 



Diatraea canella Hampson. 



Diatraea canella Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XVI, 349, 1895. 



This species has a strong frontal prominence in the form of a plate 

 with a point in the center. The general color is reddish gray without 

 any of the straw yellow tint. The dots on the fore wing are larger and 

 less strigose than usual in the saccharalis group ; they are nearly obso- 

 lete in the female, which is of a nearly uniform reddish gray. 



