NO. i885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 61 



Type—Usile, No. 13929, U.S.N.M., without definite locality (R. 

 Miillcr, No. 1379). 



This species was identified by Sir G. F, ITampson. 



Subfamily ^CRONYCTINvlC. 

 CENTROCHLORA, new genus. 



Fore wing with arcole; fore tibia with claw on inner side only; 

 front without prominence; proboscis fully developed; thorax roughly 

 clothed with hair and scales; palpi short, porrect, not exceeding the 

 front; fore tibia short, not t\vice as long as its claw. 



Genotype. — CentrocJiIora esmeraJda, new species. 



Examined by Sir G. F. ITampson, who labeled it "Gen. nov. near 

 Agriopodes, in key near CentrarthaJ' He also suggested the names 

 here used. 



CENTROCHLORA ESMERALDA, new species. 



Dark green, collar with white points behind, patagia with white 

 lines and two points on posterior side of disk. Fore vdng green (faded 

 to yellowish in the specimen); a white point at base; orbicular, 

 reniform and claviform large white spots; a broad white subtermiual 

 band; black marldngs a triangular patch at base, nine dots on costa, 

 inner line below median vein, excurved between the veins, outer and 

 inner edges of discal spots, t^vin bars between claviform and outer 

 line, subtermmal line broken, powdery, sharply pointed inward on 

 submcdian, and a row of spots in the fringe. Hind wdng whitish, 

 possibly originally stained with green outwardly. Expanse, 29 mm. 



Type—lMe, No. 13930, U.S.N.M., Mexico City, Mexico, July, 

 1909 (R. Miiller). 



Genus SIMYRA Ochsenheimer. 

 SIMYRA UNIFACTA, new species. 



Pale straw color; fore wing evenly and finely irrorated with bro^vii, 

 forming slight longitudinal streaks along the center of the wing and 

 lea%dng the veins a little paler; no markings. Hind wing creamy 

 white. Expanse, 38 mm. 



TVpe— Male, No. 13931, U.S.N.M., Misantla, Mexico, June, 1906 

 (R. Miiller). 



Genus PERIGEA Guen^e. 



PERIGEA MENOTA, new species. 



Dark gray, mottled, strigose, the ordinary lines and spots not well 

 relieved; reniform and orbicular large, concentric-ringed; edge of 

 the reniform picked out in white; outer line smooth, gently excurve<l 

 in the middle; subterminal line the edge of a dark shade, relieved by 

 whitish beyond; termen again dark. Hind wing grayish, darker on 

 the veins, a submarginal indistinct paler area. Beneath powdered 

 with gray; termen of fore wing sharply pale; hind whig with a black 



