NO. 188r,. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 53 



HALISIDOTA UNDERWOODI MODALIS. new subspecies. 



Similar to underwoodi underwoodi, but paler, with the discoidal 

 stigma smaller and often disconnected from the costal markings. 

 The size is the same. 



Coty pes.— Two males, three females, No. 13683, U.S.N.M., Aroa, 

 Venezuela (Schaus collection). 



The markings of the abdomen beneath are as in interlineaia Walker, 

 rather than as in underwoodi, but I place it as a race of the latter on 

 account of the markings of the upper side, the black edges of the 

 wing markings being small and not diffused. 



HALlSmOTA UNDERWOODI INSTABILIS, new subspecies. 



In this form the markings of the fore wings are curiously reduced, 

 with a tendency toward the pattern of davisii Edwards. The sub- 

 marginal band is nearly completely obliterated, only a costal and 

 mai-ginal spot being left, with sometimes one between veins 4 and 5. 

 The black bordei-s of the remaining markings are distinct; the mesial 

 band traverses the wing as a narrow riband, spreading out on the 

 inner margin in a black line nearly to base, and also general!}^ out- 

 ward to the remains of the submarginal band. Abdomen beneath 

 with a broken lateral black line, but without ventral spots. 



Coty pes. — Three males, No. 13684, U.S.N.M., Cuernavaca, Mexico, 

 June and August, 1906 (W. Schaus). The August specimen is much 

 lighter in color than the othei-s and has the costal markings reduced 

 and broken. 



This may perhaps be the form referred to by Rothschild ^ as occa- 

 sional }klexican examples of Haliddota interlineaia interlineata Walker, 

 but I can hardly think so, as the males of interlineata as Iviiown to me 

 are small, with pointed wings and the black markings very heavj' 

 on the costal area. 



Genus HYPOCRISIAS Hampson. 



HYPOCRISLAS LISOMA, new species. 



Ground color soiled white, shaded with rather dark brown. The 

 body parts are of a gra^-ish cast from the sprinkling of brown on the 

 pale ground. Fore \\\\\g soiled whitish, the brown markings much 

 shaded and illy defiaed. The terminal space is dark browTi, rather 

 narrow, and just within it is a wwxy band of pale conjoined spots of 

 the ground color. There is another pale line beyond the ceU but 

 much narrower and less weU defined and a still more obscure broader 

 one across the middle of the cell. Discal mark reniform, outlined m 

 brown, but not conspicuous; the wing is generally irrorated and 



> Nov. Zool., vol. 6, 1909, p. 283. 



