No.1742. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO DYAR. 263 



on the outer third of inner margin and runs parallel to outer margin, 

 then curves and reaches costa at apex: on the hind wing the line 

 runs straight across at the outer third; discal dots minute, black. 

 Expanse, 41 mm. 



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



Type. Cat. No. 13020, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to Bassania neropia Druce, hut the course of the outer line 

 is different. 



Genus STENASPILATES Packard. 



STENASPILATES RECTISSIMA, new species. 



Fore wing dark reddish brown, minutely speckled with black 

 atoms, the costa broadly and diffusedly pale; lines straight, approxi- 

 mately parallel, diverging a little toward costa, whitish, powdery, 

 edged with black toward the median space; discal dot small, black, 

 near to the costa. Hind wing brownish ocherous, shading to dark 

 brown toward the anal angle; a straight blackish line across the 

 wing beyond the middle, edged outwardly with pale toward the inner 

 margin; discal dot small, black. Expanse, 32 mm. 



One female, Orizaba, Mexico, July, 1909 (R. Muller). 



Type.— Cat. No. 13021, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to Stenaspilates apapinaria Dyar from southern California^ 

 but the lines all much straighter, while the color is darker. 



Genus ENDROPIA Guenee. 



ENDROPIA UNDULARIA, new species. 



Clay color, irrorated with dark brown; lines of fore wing wavy, 

 the outer followed by a purplish shade, that largely fills in the sub- 

 terminal space below: subterminal line wavy, similar to the others, 

 followed by a brown cloud below the middle of the inner margin: 

 discal dot small, black. Hind wing with the mesial line distinct, 

 wavy, the submarginal line more strongly waved and narrower. 

 Expanse, 40 mm. 



One male, Zacualpan, Mexico, April, 100<> (R. Midler). 



Type.— Cat. No. 13023, U.S.N.M. 



Much resembles the female of Endropia mattearia Schaus, except 

 for the wavy lines. Both these species are allied to the North 

 American Metanema quercivoraria (luenee. 



Genus SELENIA Hlibner. 



SELENIA VEDA, new species. 



Fore wing shaded with reddish brown or dark brown, except the 

 costa and terminal space, which are lighter; the dark shade reappears 

 more or less distinctly on the margin; outer line distinct, incurved at 

 vein 2, white, narrow, relieved by an intensification of the dark shading 



