262 PROl EEDING8 <>r T/ir \ \ti<>\ \i. MUSEUM. vol 38 



Genus POLLA Herrich-Schaeffer. 



POLLA HEMERARIA, new species. 



Tawny brown, collar and cost a at base shaded with creamy white; 

 lines on fore wing narrow, powdery white, partly dark edged; inner 

 line straight, crossing the wing before origin of vein 2; outer line 

 curved from close to apex to inner margin at outer third; a white 

 shading at outer fourth of costa, running onto the adjoining veins; 

 wing sparsely irrorate with black, with black discal dot ami subter- 

 niinal spots on veins 2, 3, and 4. Hind wing with discal dot and 

 traces of mesial line and subterminal spottings. Fringe narrowly 

 white tipped. Expanse, 35 nun. 



One male. Misantla, Mexico, September, 1909 (R. Midler). 



Type.— Cat. No. L3018, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to Polla prselataria Herrich-Schaeffer, hut with the lines 

 well apart, the inner one erect and not angled outward to the discal 

 dot. This may be Polla celeraria Walker. Walker's description 

 apparently agrees, hut I have no specimen that has been directly 

 compared with Walker's type." I lis locality is Villa Nova [Brazil], 

 which would indicate a wide distribution if the species are the same. 



Genus PYRINIA Hubner. 



PYRINIA MINSERA, new species. 



Rusty blown, the area before the outer line on both wings a little 

 lighter, showing a yellowish ground, heavily overlaid with rusty mot- 

 tlings; indications of a discal dot: outer line on both wings straight, 

 dark, with a leaden shade, on fore wing at outer third and parallel to 

 outer margin, on hind wing near the middle. Beneath yellow, over- 

 laid with rusty brown mottlings, the basal and terminal spaces of 

 fore wing nearly Idled by them, the hind wing showing a mesial line 

 and heavy mottlings at base and terminally. Expanse, 25 nun. 



One male, Zacualpan, Mexico, August, 1909 (R. Muller). 

 Type. Cat. No. 13019, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to Pyrinia castana Dognin from Ecuador and Bolivia, hut the 

 fore wing with the outer margin less straighl and oblique and the 

 markings on the under side of the wings heavier, especially basally. 



Genus BASSANIA Walker. 



BASSANIA UMBRIMARGO, new species. 



Dull 



clay-color; fore wing a little brownish shaded at base, the 

 : of both wings broadly shaded with dark gray, limited by a 

 narrow purplish black line; on the lore wing the limiting line arises 



margins 



"Cat. Brit. Mus., 1869, p 98 



