No.1742. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO DYAR. 253 



ISCADIA D^EMONASSA, new species. 



Fore wing brown-black, shading to mottled brown on the inner 

 margin, the apex gray-white; lines slender, Mack, single; subbasal 

 line waved, a very fine line along submedian fold; inner line straight 

 to subcosta, a sharp outward tooth below, then roundedly and 

 strongly arcuate to vein 1, where is a sharp inward tooth, then 

 rounded to inner margin; a line along submedian fold joining the 

 outer line; stigmata absent; outer line starting on costa near middle 

 of wing, running along subcosta to outer fourth, then roundedly 

 arcuate to an inward tooth on submedian fold where it joins the 

 longitudinal line, thence to inner margin with an angle on vein 1 ; 

 long black streaks on the discal venules cross the outer line; outer 

 margin strongly wavy, the fringe concolorous with the markings. 

 Hind wing white, the apex fuscous shaded, especially on the veins. 

 Head, tegulsc and patagia nearly black, disk of thorax brown. Abdo- 

 men gray. Beneath the wings are white, suffused and dusted with 

 gray on the costal region. Expanse, 53 mm. 



One female, Guerrero, Mexico (J. Doll); another female, Jalapa, 

 Mexico (Schaus collection). 



Type.— Cat. No. 12998, U.S.N.M. 



This speeies is not an fscadia, as the last joint of the palpi is short, 

 and is only temporarily placed in the genus. 



Genus MELIPOTIS Hubner. 



MELIPOTIS MOSCA, new species. 



Thorax dark brown or reddish brown; abdomen light gray. Fore 

 wing dark brown with a purplish tint, the wing narrow and trigonate 

 in both sexes; subbasal line indicated by black spots; a rather broad 

 pale brown oblique shade runs from the basal third of costa to the 

 middle of inner margin; from this a similarly colored area runs below 

 the cell, and curves up beyond it, forming a point on vein (> and 

 reaching (dose to the costa; this area is shaded around with black 

 and narrowly edged by a black line except on the side where it bor- 

 ders the cell; the inner black border is edged basally by the narrow 

 black inner line, which is oblique and parallel to the pale area and 

 forms an inward tooth on subcosta and submedian; orbicular a small 

 pale yellowish point; reniform a small pale yellowish dash in the cell 

 and another at its end, the two converging somewhat costally; sub- 

 terminal line, narrow, pale, edged within by a row of black cusp- 

 shaped shadings, with a narrow outer brown edge that widens as it 

 touches t he costa, reaching the apex; terminal space almost as light 

 as the mesial marking; a line, wavy, terminal black line. Hind wing 

 white at the base, the outer half shaded with black, the fringe pale. 

 Expanse, 34 mm. 



