NO. 1885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DY A R. 67 



BISTICA, new genus. 



Fore wing with an areole; fore legs unarmed ; front with a truncate 

 conical prominence with raised edges; and central point; eyes large; 

 tongue distinct; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only; prothorax 

 without crest; fore wing excavate on the outer margin below apex. 



Genotype. — Bistica noela, new species. 



BISTICA NOELA, new species. 



Ocherous yellow; basal area of fore wing bronzy golden, limited 

 outwardly by a brown line, wliich is incised on vein 1, nearly dividing 

 the patch into two, one at base, one on inner margin; a similar golden 

 area follo\ving the lower half of the outer line; a faint broad extra- 

 mesial dark shade crossing the wing, its edges irregular; a dark speck 

 in cell; reniform undifferentiated; outer Une slender, strongly ex- 

 curved over cell ; submarginal line midway between it and the margin, 

 less distinct and more flexuous; a narrow brown terminal Une. Hind 

 wing sliining gray. Expanse, 22 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 13897, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, Septem- 

 ber," 1910 (R. Miiller). 



Tliis is probably Mychonia ( ?) noela Druce, figured in the Biologia 

 Centrali-Americana, pi. 47, fig. 28, and I have accordingly used the 

 same specific name. 



Genus ANTAPLAGA Grote. 

 ANTAPLAGA STIGMATOSA. new species. 



Thorax orange ; fore wing golden yellow with black lines ; imier line 

 straight oblique, geminate, filled with powdery black; cell so filled; a 

 black dash for claviform; orbicular large, round, white; reniform 

 similar but less clear white and constricted ; middle line single, dentate 

 on the veins, separated from the dark cell only below median vein; 

 outer line geminate, powdeiy-fiJled, dentate on the veins and also 

 incurved opposite cell and on submedian; a terminal row of small 

 black dots connected with larger spots in the fringe; liind wing 

 brownish black, the fringe golden yellow with black spottings at base. 

 Expanse, 27 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 13898, U.S.N.M., Mexico City, Mexico, Sep- 

 tember, 1906 (R. Miiller). 



ANTAPLAGA HEMICROCEA, new species. 



Thorax orange; fore wing golden yellow without markings; orbicu- 

 lar shown very faintly as a large paler area, and there are famt out- 

 lines of markings in dark orange, apparently as in the preceding. 

 Hind wing and abdomen black, the wing with golden yellow fringe. 

 Expanse, 25 mm. 



