96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, 



Description of a new species of Myscelia from Western Mexico. 



By LEVI W. MENGEL, Reading, Pa. 



Myscelia skiiiaeri nov. sp. Expands two and one-quarter inches. The 

 basic color of the entire upper surface is black, paling slightly along the 

 internal margin of the inferior wings. Beginning at the base of the su- 

 perior wing, running into the discoidal cell about three-eighths of an inch 

 dividing, and running into the wing nearly three-quarters of an inch, is a 

 blotch of rich purple. Along the margin of the wing is a line of white or 

 pale bluish spots, broken, running along the entire margin. There is a 

 parallel line of spots, nearly the same color, though somewhat darker, 

 running very close to the edge. There are two white apical spots sur- 

 rounded by the faintest tinge of blue, three submarginal spots, and two in 

 the centre of the costa, all of the same color. The inferior wings are 

 emarginate, with a thin, pale, broken line of white spots running along 

 the edge. A large blotch of the same rich purple as on the superiors 

 spreads from the base into the cell, extending almost to the upper margin 

 of the wing. It is not divided, as in the superiors. Near the margin is a 

 row of purple spots running parallel to the edge. A second and third 

 marginal row run across the wing. Between the last row and the large 

 blotch runs a band across the wing in the centre. Counting this row, and 

 excluding the white marginal line, there are four rows of these purple- 

 colored spots between the edge and blotch. The undersides of the wings, 

 as in M. streckeri Skinner, resemble the under surface of Pyrameis ata- 

 lanta, and, like it, cannot be* described. 



The species is close to M. streckeri Skinner, and they may be 

 varieties of the same species belonging to the same zoological 

 area. But in the general appearance, and in the number of rows 

 of purple spots, from which there is no variation in skinneri, they 

 differ to such a degree that I believe the species is worthy of a 

 name. 



Described from five specimens from Bayemena, Sinoloa, 

 Mex. Named in honor of Dr. Henry Skinner, of Philadelphia. 



OBITUARY. 



MORITZ SCHUSTER died of apoplexy Feb. 7, 1894. Mr. Schuster was 

 born in Germany in 1823, and was an enthusiastic entomologist up to the 

 time of his death. His home was at 1803 Hickory Street, St. Louis, Mo. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for February, was mailed Jan. 31, 1894. 



