NO. 1885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 77 



denticulate, not strongly contrasted; the white occurs on both sides 

 of the subterminal line, most continuously within and bordering tlie 

 outer line, which is incurved below vein 2. Hind wing pale cinereous. 

 Expanse, 24 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 14217, U.S.N.M., Mexico City, Mexico, July, 

 1910 (R. Muller). 



Mr. wSchaus reports that this species is under Liihacodia musta Grote 

 in the British Museum collection, and Sir G. F. Ilampson determined 

 a specimen.as L. musta. I think, however, that it is clearly distinct 

 from that well-known species of the eastern United States, although 

 allied to it. 



Subfamily CA.TOCAX,II<^.^. 



Genus CELIPTERA Guen^e. 

 CELIPTERA DIMERA, new species. 



Fore wing light gray on basal half, finely irrorated with darker; 

 costal edge black, the inner hne arising from it as a black dash, then 

 continued slenderly across the wing, incurved in the middle with a 

 central outward tooth; a black line across the middle of the wing, 

 formed of two arcs, touching on submedian, sharply edged within, 

 diffused without, followed by a rosy brown color that covers the 

 outer half of the wing; reniform absorbed in the median band; 

 subterminal Une pale, wavy, edged by darker cloudings; a terminal 

 row of obscure blackish dots; frmge paler, approaching the shade of 

 basal area. Hind wing faintly yellowish, reddish gray on terminal 

 third, the veins a little- darker; a row of faint terminal dots; fringe 

 whitish. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 13955, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, June, 

 1910 (R. Muller). 



This specunen was determined b}^ Sir G. F. Hampson, who placed 

 a question-mark beside the generic determination. 



Subfamily NOCTTJIN'.^J?]. 



Genus DYOPS Guenee. 

 DYOPS XANTHOLEPIS, new species. 



Fore wing dark gray; basal space powdered with white with a 

 central orange yellow dash; subbasal line black, broken, angled; 

 inner line curved, white, dentate, with outer black edge, the white 

 occluded except at the dentations, strongly black without the yellow 

 basal mark; median line black, angularly dentate, suffused by a 

 broad blackish shade that fills most of the median space; ciavifoiin 

 a whitish shade; orbicular similar, small, a little defined on its edges 

 by dark scales; reniform large, diffused, white, broken into three 

 superposed spots, the middle one of which is orange yellow, and an 

 inner spot, this latter separatcil by a slender line on the cross- vein; 

 outer lino black with narrow white shading without, dentate, strongly 



