NO. 1885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 63 



Genus OXYCNEMIS Grote. 

 OXYCNEMIS MEXICANA, new species. 



Cinereous, faintly lilacLne tinted; subbasal line black, angled; inner 

 line black, curved, the space between a little lighter than the ground 

 color; an irregular dusky mesial line, from costa at outer line, 

 bent along median vein, then angled and running obliquely out- 

 ward to middle of inner margin; a small dark mark in cell; outer 

 line blackish, irregularly waved and crenulate, followed by a dark 

 triangular shade at apex and then a pale area; terminal space again 

 cinereous. Hind wing dark gray. Expanse, 22 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 13934, U.S.N.M., Cuernavaca, Mexico, July, 



1909 (R. Miiller). 



Determined by Sir G. F. Ilampson. The claw on fore tibia is 

 minute. 



Genus LAPHYGMA Guenee. 



LAPHYGMA NIGRESCENS. new species. 



Thorax black; fore wing grayish clay color, shaded with black; 

 basal space to imier line fdled with black irrorations; upper half of 

 median space confused with dark shadings, the dark mesial shade 

 running through it; clavifonn outlined; orbicular and reniform pale, 

 without distinct outlines and with black centers, that of the reni- 

 form in its lower half; a square black subapical patch; subterminal 

 line blackish, waved; ordinary lines lost. Hind wing pure white, 

 with fine gray line before the fringe. Expanse, 26 mm. 



Type. — Male, No. 13935, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, August, 



1910 (R. Muller). 



Determined by Sir G. F. Ilampson. 



Genus MONODES Guenee. 



MONODES NIVEOPIS, new species. 



Dark ocher-brown; inner line geminate, crenulate, blackish, 

 clouded; claviform outlined, clouded; orbicular a bright white speck; 

 median shade-line dark, mflexed on subcosta and median; renifoim 

 black-fdled, nearly divided into two round spots; outer line dark, 

 single, strongly incurv^ed on subcosta, followed below by a row of 

 dots; terminal s])ace blackish shaded, through wliich nms the pale 

 wavy subterminal line. Hind wing brown-black ^vith a darker 

 discal mark. Expanse, 29 mm. 



Coty pes. —T^vo females, Xo. 13936, IT.S.X.M., Misantla, Mexico, 

 U&y and December, 1910 (R. Muller). 



Determined by Sir G. F. Hampson. 



