NO. 1885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 45 



Dimorphic fonn PHRONIMA, new. 



Wings black above; two subapical rows of yellow spots on fore 

 wing, the inner of four spots in a line, the outer of four in a very irregu- 

 lar row, no spot above vein 5; liind wing with the submarginal row 

 present above veins 2, 3, and 4, the one below vein 2 double, and a 

 little one farther in above vein 6. Beneath black, all the silver marks 

 toward the base absent; on fore wmg a spot in the cell and three 

 outer irregular tows; on hind wing two outer rows of small spots 

 between the veins. 



Type.— One female, No. 14281, U.S.N.M., Sierra de Guerrero, 

 Mexico, July, 1911 (R. Muller). 



Superfamily SPHINGOIDEA. 



FamUy SPHINGIDyE. 



Genus HYLOICUS Hubner. 



HYLOICUS ADUMBRA.TA, new species. 



Gray, edges of collar and patagiae black. Abdomen broadly black 

 on the sides with five elliptical pale-yellow segmentary spots ; a nar- 

 row dorsal black line; venter gray with a central black line. Head 

 and palpi gray with some black about the orbits. Fore wing gray; 

 a black patch near base on inner margin; a black line above median 

 vem, doubled beyond the cell and four dashes in the interspaces, the 

 upper one joming tlie apical dash; a submargmal Ime below vein 4, 

 rumiing obliquely inwardly, edged with wliitish without. Hind wing 

 black with gray bands sub-basally, mesially and on margin. Expanse, 

 85 mm. 



Type. — One male, No. 13853, U.S.N.M., Zacualpan, Mexico, Sep- 

 tember, 1910 (R. Muller). 



Genus AMPLYPTERUS Hubner. 



AMPLYPTERUS GLOBIFER, new species. 



Pale olivaceous ochery; legs brown; vertex of head and a large 

 patch covermg patagia olive brown. Fore whig with a large olive- 

 brown patch near base close to inner margin, pyriform, the prolonga- 

 tion directed towards base, the upper edge crossmg median vein. 

 Sub-basal and faint double median lines crossmg whig; outer Ime 

 parallel to margm, bro\\'n, shading into an irregular shading that 

 covers the outer third of whig; it becomes bluish and dark on inner 

 marghi and contains there a bent black Ihie; above this there is a 

 lightening and another at costa, this last squarely cut outwardly by a 

 brown shade. Hind ^nng dark rose-color except on inner margin, 

 with a broad submargmal brown shade, constricted opposite the sub- 



