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margin ; mesial line parallel to it, from inner fourth of costa to middle 

 of inner margin; an oblique parallel bar from costa at end of cell, 

 sending out black streaks along veins 2 to 6 in a gray shade; outer 

 line from costa at outer fourth, excurved nearly to termen, incurved 

 to inner margin at mesial line; a Vermillion red half band on termen 

 from apex to vein 2, followed below by a curved gray shade; a row 

 of terminal black dots in the red; fringe leaden gray. Hind wing 

 white, semihyaline, with a dark gray terminal shade on upper half. 

 Expanse, 28 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 14292, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, June, 1911 

 (R. Miiller). 



Genus LYGROPIA Lederer. 

 LYGROPIA SUBCOSTALIS, new species. 



Dark brownish yellow, the wings shining, the hind pair a little 

 paler; a black line along the costa of fore wings beneath; legs with 

 the tibise and tarsi black; antennae black with the tips white; third 

 joint of palpi black. Expanse, 18 mm. 



Type.—Ua\e, No. 14208, U.S.N.M., Orizaba, Mexico, May, 1911 

 (R. Miiller). 



Genus CLINIODES Guen^e. 

 CLINIODES NOMADALIS, new species. 



Shining pale yellow; costa brown on basal two-thirds with expan- 

 sion at middle and end of cell; a gray-brown shade along inner and 

 outer margins, narrowing to apex; inner line curved, distinct only 

 at the costal expansion; an erect blackish bar at middle of inner 

 margin; outer line curved, finely crenulate, expanded and brown on 

 costa, also expanded but black on inner margin. Hind wing trans- 

 lucent opalescent whitish. Expanse, 33 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 14041, U.S.N.M., Misantla, Mexico, April, 1911 

 (R. Muller). 



Siabfamily CR-A.M:B IN'JK. 



Genus CHILO Zincken. 



CHILO DILETANTELLUS, new species. 



Straw yellow; fore wing with a dark-brown ray from base through 

 the cell to termen, broadest in the middle; a silvery white shade 

 below it; inner margin coarsely dusted with brown; frmge shining. 

 Hind wing soiled whitish with pale gray apex. Expanse, 43 mm. 



Type.—Fem&\e, No. 14042, U.S.N .M., Cuernavaca, Mexico, June, 

 1906 (W. Schaus). 



