NO. 1885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 93 



whitish hne, irregularly undulate; black intervenular spots connected 

 by a fine terminal black line. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 14229 U.S.N.M., Misantla, Mexico, June, 1910 

 (R. Miiller). 



ALCIS ELPIDATA, new species. 



Thorax dark, blackish gray; abdomen brown-gray. Fore wing 

 blackish-shaded over a gray ground, which appears with a reddish tint 

 in a quadrate area beyond cell and below middle of outer margin; 

 hnes lost in the general shading, the inner faintly traced, the outer 

 excurved beyond the discal dilution; a black elliptical discal mark; 

 discal veins black-lined; subterminal line whitish, wavy and flexuous. 

 Hind wing with a straight dark shade across cell; a minute discal 

 dot; an outer curved black line, followed by a fainter duplication; a 

 submarginal dark irregularly wavy line preceded and followed by faint 

 whitish macular shadings. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 14230, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, Septem- 

 ber, 1910 (R. MuUer). 



Possibly this is the female of the following species. 



ALCIS INTERBRTJNNEA, new species. 



Thorax dark, blackish gray; abdomen brown-gray. Fore wing 

 rather dark gray, reddish brown in lower third of median space, 

 beyond cell and distinctly and broadly so on termen; lines black, 

 rather broad, single; inner line excurved at cell, then retracted to 

 basal fourth of inner margin; a faint mesial shade line with black 

 inception on costa; an occluded black discal ringlet; outer line 

 excurved over cell, strongly incurved below, cut by black dashes on 

 veins 3 and 4; these dashes join the black subterminal line, which is 

 far from margin and near the outer line; it is subparallel to the outer 

 Une but less strongly flexed and followed by a faint dilution before the 

 brown terminal area. Hind wing with a straight dark shade across 

 cell; a minute discal dot; an outer curved black line followed by a 

 faint duplication; a submarginal dark irregularly wavy line followed 

 by a faint dilution, the termen brown shaded. Expanse, 29 mm. 



Cotypes. — Thirty-four males, No. 14231, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mex- 

 ico, June, August, and September, 1910 (R. Miiller). 



Family LASIOCMIPIDzE. 

 Genus CLAPHE Walker. 



CLAPHE NYSTAMMA, new species. 



Fore wing light gray, overspread with brown; subbasal, inner and 

 outer lines gray-black, doubled, shaded, the veins also partly black- 

 Hned ; submarginal line a row of closely placed and rather large dots, 

 with an inflexure opposite cell and submedian; a row of brown 

 spots in the fringe. Hind wing dull yellowish, the basal half shaded 



