No.1742. VEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. '217 



dark brown with a wavy pale line. Hind wing fuscous, lighter 

 between the veins, the fringe rufous tinted. Expanse, 33 nun. 



One male, Zacualpan, Mexico. August, L909 (R. Muller). 



Type. -Cat. No. 12971, U.S.N.M. 



ERIOPYGA INFELIX, new species. 



Male antennae shortly bipectinate. Ocherous brown, more or less 

 darkly shaded; subbasal line invisible; inner line single, strongly 

 crenulate, tin 1 flexures pointed on lower half of wing; orbicular a 

 pale ringlet; median shade line indistinct; reniform outlined in 

 pale, clouded with black in its lower half; outer line crenulate, 

 slightly curved at costa, outwardly dotted on the veins; subterminal 

 line pale, powdery, preceded by faint indications of dark dashes; 

 terminal space dark; a. light line at base of fringe. Hind wing pale, 

 the veins and outer margin shaded with fuscous. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Tw t o males, Mexico City, Mexico, September, 1909 (R. Midler). 



Type.— Cat, No. 12972, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to Eriopyga incincta Morrison, but a slenderer, narrower- 

 winged species, the subterminal line broken and powdery, the ter- 

 minal space dark. 



Genus ERIOPYGODES Hampson. 



ERIOPYGODES GRAMMADORA. new species. 



Clayey ocherous, the head and tegulse tinted with brown. Fore 

 wing with the veins broadly lined with blackish, the submedian fold 

 narrowly so; fringe rufous tinted. Hind wing black with pale 

 rufous tinted fringe. Abdomen black above, rufous below, the anal 

 tuft ocherous. Beneath fore wing largely shaded with black; hind 

 wing pale, streaked with black on the median venules. Expanse, 33 

 mm. 



One male, Popocatepetl Park, Mexico, 13,000 feet altitude (W. 

 Schaus). 



Type.— Cat. No. L2980, I'.S.X.M. 



Genus MELIANA Curtis. 

 MELIANA PERSTRIGATA, new species. 



Fore wing light clay color, a little irrorated with black on outer 

 half of costa and apex; a blackish shading beneath median vein, 

 continued to the margin between veins I and 5, with a lighter or 

 whitish edging above in the cell, which on veins .'! ami I cuts the dark 

 shade; a blackish mark between vein 1 and inner margin; fringe 

 shaded with blackish. Hind wing whitish. Expanse, •'!•"> nun. 



One female, Mexico City, Mexico, May, 1908 (R. Miiller); a second 

 female from the same place, April, 1909, is a little smaller with the 



