No.1742. VEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO DYAR. 239 



the ground color, a dark shade on the costa within its inception; a 

 black line at base of fringe; fringe narrowly light at the base, dark 

 outwardly. Hind wing gray, the fringe pale, whitish. Expanse, 

 48 mm. 



One female, Cuernavaca, Mexico, June. 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Type.- -Cat. No. 12954, U.S.N.M. 



Genus LYCOPHOTIA Hubner. 



LYCOPHOTIA ESPCETIA, new species. 



Head and thorax lilacine gray, the tegulae crossed by a black band. 

 Abdomen yellowish gray, darker shaded on the dorsum, the anal 

 tuft of the male somewhat ocherous. Fore wing lilacine gray, the 

 markings distinct, blackish brown; subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold; inner line marked on the costa, somewhat irregular, 

 sharply produced inward on vein 1; claviform and orbicular absent; 

 reniform an upright black bar joined to the median line and forming 

 more or less of a blotch with it ; median line marked on costa, oblique 

 to reniform, then straight to inner margin; outer line marked on 

 costa, slender, crenulate, irregularly parallel to outer margin; sub- 

 terminal line pale, diffused and pulverulent, situated in a dark 

 shading, which obtains to the termen; a row of obscure dark terminal 

 dots; fringe dark. Hind wing whitish, slightly shaded, the veins a 

 little darker and the margin narrowly dark; fringe pale. Expanse, 

 37 mm. 



One male. Las Vegas, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico (Schaus collection (. 



Typt . -( 'at . No. 12955, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to Lycophotia lubricans Guenee, but not particularly allied 

 to the form beato Grote, which is found in New Mexico. The present 

 form is large and distinctly marked, and, though allied to lubricans, 

 is, 1 think, a distinct species and not a local race of it. 



LYCOPHOTIA PELLUCIDALIS Grote. 



This species has not heretofore been reported from Mexico, but 

 seems to be rather widely spread in the country. 1 have a speci- 

 men from Mexico City, May, 1908 (K. Miiller) ; Cuernavaca, State of 

 Morelos, Mexico, July, 1906 (W. Schaus); Las Vegas, State of Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico (Schaus collection), included with LycopTiotia infecta 

 Ochsenheimer ( incivis Guenee) by error, and a fourth specimen 

 from Mr. Midler without exact locality. 



Genus TRICHESTRA Hampson. 



TRICHESTRA STIGMATOSA, new species. 



Head and thorax with the long scales intermixed olive green and 

 black, the posterior tuft ocher brown ; abdomen blackish, the tip pale 

 reddish. Fore wing olive green (discolored to yellowish in the speci- 



