NO. 1 885. NEW LEI'lDOrnJHA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 51 



Family AllCTIID^. 



Genus HALISIDOTA Hubner. 



HALISIDOTA NIMBIFACTA, new species. 



Pale straw-yellow, the hind wings yellowish white, semiliyaline. 

 Fore wings opaque, pale yellow, the markings pale brown, faint and. 

 nearl}^ obliterate; these are in the form of chainlike bands, with a 

 dark discoloration at the end of the ceil and a small speck in the sub- 

 margmal band between veins 5 and 6. The markings are much as 

 in Halisidota thyopliora Schaus but ver}^ much fainter as well as being 

 more regular and chainlike. Expanse: Male, 22 mm.; female, 

 30 mm. 



Cotypes. — Two males, seven females. No. 13844, U.S.N.M., Santa 

 Rosa, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, July, 1906 (W. Schaus); Guadala- 

 jara, Mexico (Schaus collection). 



HALISIDOTA NIMBISCRIPTA, new species. 



Pale straw-color. Antennae of the male broadly pectinated. Fore 

 wmg pointed, marked with many fine pulverulent confused lines; 

 these consist of the ordmary transverse catenulate markings but 

 confused and confluent; the submargmal and margmal rows are 

 most distinct, the former a line of cusps, the latter of small ringlets; 

 a darker dot above vein 5; a shght yellow shading through the cell 

 and outwardly from it. Expanse, 45 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 13920, U.S.N.M., Iguala, State of Guerrero, 

 Mexico, 2,400 feet, July, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Mr. Schaus determined this species as new and says it is near 

 Halisidota nehulosa Rothschild. 



HALISIDOTA CARINATOR, new species. 



Allied to cinctipes Grote and schausi Rothschild, but smaller and 

 more darkly colored. The giound color of the fore wings is ocher 

 yellow, not the pale whitish ochcry of the two species mentioned, 

 while the hind wings are of a strong ocher yellow color throughout, 

 not semiliyaline whitish with yellow wash on the inner area. The 

 markings are as in schausi, a little darker and more distinctly limited 

 by their dark borders. Expanse, 37 to 47 mm. 



Cotypes. — Seventeen males, eight females, No. 13681, U.S.N.M., 

 Orizaba, Mexico, April 11, 1906 (R. Midler), March 13, 1908 (F. 

 Knab); Cordoba, Mexico, March 13, 1908 (F. Knab); Jalapa, Mexico 

 (Schaus collection); Coatepec, ^Mexico (Schaus collection). 



The species runs into a dark form resembling atra Druce. Seveial 

 of the males have a tint of black in the hind wings, one being dis- 



