NO. 1885. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 55 



EPICRISIAS, new genus. 



Hind \\-ing with vein 4 present; hind wing with veins 6 and 7 

 separate; fore wino; with vein 11 from the cell; vein 10 from the cell; 

 palpi porrect; hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 separate; hind tihiaj with 

 two iiairs of spurs; fore tibiae unarmed; vein 3 from near angle of 

 cell; fore wing broad; proboscis fully developed; palpi with the third 

 joint long, spatuUite, smoothly scaled. 



Genotype. — Epicrisias eschara, new species. 



EPICRISIAS ESCHARA, new species. 



Reddish orange; body orange, vertex of head and tegulseocherous, 

 the following parts black: palpi, front, sides of thorax, legs, except 

 fore coxa?, a lateral stripe on the abdomen, the pair becommg con- 

 joined posteriorly and covering the venter of the last segment and 

 half of the penultimate one; antennae black, shorty pectinated in the 

 female. Fore wing rosy orange, shading to orange along the costa 

 and outer margin, the vestiture transversely squamose basally. 

 Hind ^\'ing rosy, semitranslucent centrally, orange tinted along costa 

 and margin. Expanse, 54 mm. 



Type. — One female. No. 13847, U.S.N.M., Zacualpan, Mexico, 

 June, 1910 (R. Miiller). 



Genus CALIDOTA Dyar. 



CALIDOTA MOMIS, new species. 



Body and legs gray, vertex of head and collar dull ocher, the latter 

 with two large black points; abdomen ocherous above, with a row of 

 dorsal black spots, well separated. Fore wing gray with three black 

 points, one in the cell, two beyond, above the bases of veins 4 and 5, 

 respectively; hind wing semihyaline whitish, the veins dark, the 

 mai'gui broadly gray shaded. Expanse, 50 mm. 



Coty pes.— Male, No. 13848, U.S.N.M., Jalapa, Mexico (Schaiis col- 

 lection); female, Misantla, Mexico^ June, 1910 (R. ^liiller). 



Allied to C. gemma Schaus from Venezuela. 



CALIDOTA ALBATICOSTA, new species. 



Head gray, crimson behind; thorax dark gray doi-sally Anth a white 

 line along anterior edge of collar, tinged with crimson beneath; 

 abdomen crimson above ^^'ith a dorsal series of small dark points; 

 venter whitish with a lateral row of dark spots, the last two segments 

 dark beneath. Fore wing dark gray, the costa broady white almost 

 to apex. Hind \ving wliite, the veins dark. Expanse, 37 mm. 



Type.— One male, No. 13849, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, Sep- 

 tember, 1910 (R. Miiller). 



This species in its w^ing shape and coloration resembles species of 

 the genus Euchsetias, and is unlike most of the Calidota. 



