No.1742. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 231 



Three other specimens from Cordoba, Mexico (W. Schaus, V. 

 Kiiab), and one from Aroa, Venezuela. The species has the appear- 

 ance of Trichodesma Ursula Si oil, but the abdomen is black below. 

 Moreover, the rough scales on the hind wing of the male beneath are 

 confined to a narrow marginal hand in oceola instead of extending 

 over most of the wing as in insula. 



Genus DELPHYRE Walker. 



DELPHYRE MONOTONA, new species. 



Front gray-brown, vertex of head, anterior edge of tegulse, base of 

 palpi, fore coxa?, and venter of abdomen except last segment, ocher 

 yellow with slight orange tint; otherwise gray-brown. Fore wing 

 with the veins slightly relieved, a whitish shade beneath the cell and 

 a faint transverse band from outer third of costa to above anal ancle, 

 the markings distinct and white beneath and cut by the veins. Hind 

 wing with the cell and beneath whitish semihyaline, the margin 

 broadly and the veins black. Expanse, 37 mm. 



Santa Rosa, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, August, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Type.— Cat, No. 12941, U.S.N.M. 



Nine specimens, all from Santa Rosa, The species resembles 

 Delp/i i/re Jiaviceps Druce from Venezuela, but the markings are much 

 less distinct and the dark border of the hind wings narrower. 



Genus EUCEREON Hubner. 



EUCEREON ROSADORA, new species. 



Head and thorax dark brown, occiput orange, neck crimson; abdo- 

 men crimson above except the basal segment, pinkish ocherous below. 

 Legs brown, the tarsi ringed with yellowish white at their bases. 

 Fore wing lilacine brown, the veins finely brownish ocher; a rounded 

 darker mark in the cell and one on the cross vein; a subbasal faint 

 yellowish line; an outer more distinct line, excurved beyond the cell, 

 irregularly crenulate; a submarginal line which reaches the margin 

 at the tornus, crenulate and produced along all the veins to the mar- 

 gin. Hind wing grayish black. Beneath grayish black, the fore 

 wing with a pale mark in and beyond cell and the submarginal line 

 irregularly repeated. Expanse, 27 nun. 



Santa Rosa, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, August, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Type.— Cat, No. 12942, T.S.N.M. 



One hundred and seventy-five specimens from Santa Rosa and two 

 from Cuernavaca, Mexico. 



The species is allied to Eucereon rosa Walker, but smaller, darker, 

 and with the markings less distinct. 



