NO. 1885. NEW LEPTDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DTAR. 41 



CARIA STILLATICIA, new species. 



Ground color ^ed-b^o^\^l, overlaid Adth blackish on inner (lower) 

 half of fore wing and basal three-fourtlis of hind \ving; veins broadly 

 lined \vith leaden black which has a leaden blue reflection in obhque 

 light; spots small, black, in about five rows, the next to the last row 

 being elongate and replaced below vein 3 b}' a bar of metallic blue. 

 On the hind wing the spots are less distinctly in rows, but the blue- 

 leaden half-band is present and there is also a longer similar band 

 close to the margin. Beneath of a bright browTi-rod, the black spots 

 repeated and distinct, each \\'ith a i)atcli of leaden-silvery scales, 

 which form a nearly continuous line along the margin of both wings; 

 fringe dark leaden gray; costa of fore wing gray with five small 

 yellowish dashes; inner margin of liind wing gray. Expanse, 26 mm. 



Type. — One male, No. 142S3, U.S.N.M., Sierra de Guerrero, Mexico, 

 July, 1911 (R. Miiller). 



. Family LYC^NID^. 



Genus THECLA Fabricius. 



THECLA PRIMNOZA, new species. 



Wings black above, shaded with light blue on basal two-thirds of 

 inner margin of fore wing below cell, over most of hind wing, except 

 apex and a toy^ of marginal spots; a blue line at base of fringe, 

 which is white-tipped; long tail at end of vein 2 white-tipped. 

 Costa of fore wing strongly angled near base in both sexes; male 

 with a brand of dark gray scales extending subcostally, the brand 

 nearly as long as half the length of the wdng. Beneath dark gra}"; 

 fore wing with a wavy white liner beyond the middle, which is broken 

 at vein 2 and lost in the whitish inner shading below; a submar- 

 ginal row of whitish lunules, filled outwardly wdtli whitish above 

 and with blackish below. Hind wing gray on the basal third, washed 

 with whitish beyond; a neat white crescent in the cell; three white 

 lunules below and bej^ond, followed by a curved line of lunules 

 across the wing at about the middle; another line at outer third, 

 less distinctly lunular and edged without with dark; a black dot 

 with red wdthin above vein 2; some gray clouding before the termen; 

 a terminal dark line; fringe whitish. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Cotypes. — One male, one female. No. 14277, U.S.N.M., ^lisantla, 

 Mexico, June, 1911 (R. Miiller); Santa Rosa, State of Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico, May, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



This is allied to T. primno Godman and Salvin, of which the male 

 is unknown. The very peculiar -male sex mark will reailily dis- 

 tinguish this group. 



