DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES AND GENERA OF 

 LEPIDOPTERA, CHIEFLY' FIIOM MEXICO. 



By IIarrisox G. Dyar, 



Custodian of Lcpidoptera, United States National Museum. 



TJie followint; apparently undescribcd species have mostly been 

 received from Mr. Roberto Miiller, of Mexico City, for identification. 

 I have been assisted in placing some of the species by Sir George F. 

 Ilampson and Mr. William Schaus. Their assistance is specially 

 acknowledged under each heading. All the species are from Mexico 

 excei)t in one famil}', the Cochlidiidae, where species from Costa Rica 

 and Brazil are described. 



Superfamily PAPILIONOIDEA. 

 Family SATYRID^. 



Genus EUPTYCHIA Hubner. 



EUPTYCHIA PERTEPIDA, new species. 



Dark gray; a reddish shade over the middle of the fore wing, espe- 

 cially marked along the median vein and the bases of veins 3 and 4; 

 a diffused band of erect scales across the disk beyond the median vein, 

 cut by the reddish veins. Hind ^ving with the diffused reddish shade 

 outwardly; two elongated blackish spots on the margin between veins 

 3 to 5. Beneath the fore wings are reddish on the lower half; two 

 brown lines cross the disk, and there is a row of submarginal lunate 

 dusky spots. Ilind wing brown-gray, the two median lines wavy 

 and irregular, with a faint similar subbasal line, the outermost line 

 followed by a bright reddish shade. A submarginal row of silvery 

 scaling in a waved and broken line, crossing two velvet}' black oval 

 spots on the margin, on which the silver forms irregularl}' geminate 

 spots. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Female similar, but the whole discal area of fore whig overspread 

 willi bright brownish red, the Imes of the underside slightly indicated, 

 the SOX mark absent. Hind wings red on the outer third. Underside 

 as in the male. Expanse, 40 mm. 



Cotypes. — One male, two females, No. 13852, U.S.N.M., Mexico 

 City, Mexico, November, 1910 (R. Miiller). 



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