NO. 1885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 79 



Genus CELIPTERA Guen^e. 



CELIPTERA CODO, new species. 



Brown, irrorated with blackisli; subbasal line velvety black, obso- 

 lete below; inner line broadly curved, coarsely dentate, pale with a 

 reddish tint, narrow, but distinctly edged with black on its oblique 

 upper third; orbicular round, black; reniform black, clouded out- 

 wardly and throwing a spur from inferior angle back along median 

 vein to below orbicular; outer line broad, even, gently curved, red- 

 dish brown without, shading to yellowish within, edged with a black- 

 ish line within and outwardly by a narrow yellowish line that is 

 strongly crenulate, its cusps nearly cuttuig through the follo^\ing 

 clouded black band; terminal space of the ground color, not so 

 strongly irrorate; a crenulate black line at base of frhige. Hind 

 wing much the color of fore \ving, lightening at base; a blackish 

 shaded discal lunule; traces of a pale outer mesial line with dark 

 edges; fringe as on fore wing. Expanse, 40 mm. 



Type. — ^lale. No. 13959, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, September, 

 1910 (R. Muller). 



Mr. Schaus examined this specimen. 



Genus RH^ESENA Walker. 



RH^SENA DEFECTA, new species. 



Dark brown, somewhat bronzy, with a general mottled effect from 

 the light and dark shades and numerous lines; outer line almost at 

 the middle of the wing, crenulate, geminate, black, pale-filled, angu- 

 larl}^ bent at cell; beyond it about vein 6 a longitudinal yellowish 

 silvery line touches submarginal line; subbasal and inner lines black, 

 crenulate; subterminal line pale, with a dark shade within; tliis 

 shade on lower two-thirds of wing, w^ith another similar one within 

 the outer Une, are straight, black and conspicuous; ground between 

 the lines mottled with black; discal spots black-ringed, but lost in 

 the general mottling; a pale terminal line; fringe black spotted; 

 outer margin excavate below apex. Hind wing black, with a brown- 

 ish tinge, uniform. Expanse, 24 mm. 



Type.—Yemah, No. 13960, U.S.N.M., Misantla, Mexico, July, 1910 

 (R. Muller). 



Sir G. F. Ham})son kindly examined the specimen, but placed a 

 mark of doubt by the generic reference, as the palpi are missmg. 



Genus GONODONTA Hubner. 

 GONODONTA PLUMBICINCTA, new species. 



Thorax and fore wing rather dark ocherous brown; scarcely any 

 markings to the outer line; a darker broNvni siiade along costa, widen- 

 ing basally and toward apex, and two parallel obUque brown streaks 



