No.1742. VEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 261 



Genus COENOCALPE Hlibner. 



COENOCALPE PENGUINIFERA, new species. 



Body dark ocher, face and spots on vertex white, edges of collar and 

 patagia pale yellow. Wings above ocher yellow, shining, the fore 

 wing stained with brown at apex; fringe white, stained with brown at 

 the ends of the veins. Under side of fore wing yellow, the apex 

 brown, containing a dislocated, submactilate, silvery band and a 

 whitish costal dash within; hind wing pale brown with silvery white 

 markings; a. curved subbasal band, reaching costa and running 

 broadly to base; a spot on inner margin; a curved median band, 

 crossed in the middle by a broad st ripe which expands in the cell into a 

 capitate mark with a point toward costa and close to outer margin is 

 trilobate; a blotch at apex and a bar from tornus showing two teeth 

 outwardly on the veins. Fringe as above. Expanse, 28 mm. 



One male. Zacualpan, Mexico, September, 1009 (K. Midler); one 

 male, Cuernavaca, Mexico, June, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Type. -Cat. No. 13015, U.S.N.M. 



Genus DICHORDA Warren. 



DICHORDA APLAGARIA, new species. 



Wings green, the costa mottled with dark red; lines straight, 

 white, rather broad, the inner nearly perpendicular to inner margin, 

 the outer parallel to outer margin; hind wing with the line straight 

 from costa to above anal angle; discal dots of both wings small, 

 black. Expanse, 22 mm. 



One male, one female, Guadalajara, Mexico (Schaus collection); 

 another male, Mexico City, Mexico, August, 1909 (R. Midler). 



Type.— Cat. No. 13016, U.S.N.M. 



Near to Dichorda conseguaria Ilv. Edwards, but smaller, the lines 

 less rigid, the outer one subparallel to outer margin, arising on the 

 costa far from the apex; the lines also have scarcely any olivaceous 

 edging, and the veins outwardly are not washed with white. 



Genus OXYDIA Guenee. 



OXYDIA SCHEMATICA, new variety. 



Three males, Orizaba, Mexico (R. Midler; Schaus collection); also 

 one male, Misantla, Mexico, November, 1908 (R. Midler). 



Type.— Cat. No. 13017, U.S.N.M. 



A variety, or local race of Oxydia a<>c<i//lnaria Oberthur, smaller, 

 without the ocherous shading, paler. The markings are essentially 

 the same, though the submarginal black shade is generally reduced 

 or absent. 



