NO. 1885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 43 



excepting only on costa and narrowly on outer margin; fringes check- 

 ered black and white; on fore wing a row of four whitish subhyaline 

 spots from middle of costa directed toward tornus, the costal spot 

 di^'ided by a vein, the one in the cell indented; a spot between veins 

 3 and 4 and a little one beyond; an oblique subapical row of three 

 small ones. Beneath the spots are repeated; the wing is gray at the 

 tip, w4th streaks of white in which are black irrorations; a yellow 

 shade on inner margin. Hind wing dark gray; a broad submarginal 

 white band, distinct only centrally, fading out toward costa and 

 anal angle, irrorated \\ath gray; in the basal field are angular black 

 markings forming a subcostal bar crossed by a median bar, with a 

 branch running along the lower part of the white submarginal band. 

 Expanse, 53 mm. 



T)//>f.— Male, No. 14220, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, April, 

 1911 (R.^Muller). 



Genus THRACIDES Hubner. 



THRACIDES URIDON, new species. 



Black above, the body and bases of both wings shot with bright 

 metallic blue. Fore wing with a whitish patch in the center, pointed 

 outwardly. Beneath dark brownish gra}'-; costse of both wings white 

 at base; fore wing \vith an oblique white band, broadening below, 

 the ground color darker before and bej'ond it; a curved subapical 

 dark bar. Hind mngs ^vith discal and median curved dark bands. 

 Expanse, 49 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 14221, U.S.N.M., Guerrero, Mexico, March, 

 1911 (R. Miiller). 



Genus THORYBES Scudder. 



THORYBES THEDEA, new species. 



Brown; fore \\ing ^\'ith a broad black bar near the middle, not 

 reaching costa nor inner margin, indented without at veins 2 and 3; 

 two white specks beyond it in the cell and one subcostally; four 

 subapical h3^aline- whitish spots m an oblique row; a small black- 

 edged spot above vem 3 ; a double one above vein 2 ; a double black 

 spot above vein 1, its upper portion small and moved outward. 

 Hind AN-ing with traces of an outer mesial row of dark spots. Beneath 

 on the fore wing the spots are more faintly repeated; iimer margin 

 broadly yellowish; hind wing with an outer mesial narrow dark band, 

 faintly followed by yello\nsh spottings. Expanse, 40 mm. 



Type. — One female, No. 14274, U.S.N.M., Tehaucan, Mexico, June, 

 1911 (R. MuUer). 



