NO. 2054. S-EW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 379 



PARANGITIA CENTROCHALCA, new species. 



Fore wing brown with metallic bronzy reflection, especially on 

 median area; base somewhat darker, Hmited by the inner line, which 

 is black, slender, dentate on subcosta and vein 1 ; discal marks pale- 

 ringed, similar, in a group of three, the reniform a httle constricted; 

 outer line blackish, obscure, excurved over cell; subterminal line pale, 

 waved, preceded by dark dashes subapically and followed by a 

 darker terminal space. Hind wing black, a little bronzy. Expanse, 

 26 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 15466, U.S.N.^M.; Jalapa, Mexico (Schaus col- 

 lection). 



Genus ORUZA Walker. 



ORUZA COSTALIS, new species. 



Fore wing gray with a reddish tint; a straight, broad, sordid 

 creamy white stripe, not quite touching costa; lines straight, slender, 

 wliitish; median space blackish shaded, with a blackish discal mark; 

 subterminal line whitish, curved from costa to middle of outer margin, 

 sharply dentate below. Hind wing colored like fore wing, with 

 blackish discal dot, white extra-mesial line and zigzag submarginal 

 one. Expanse, 16 to 23 mm. 



Cotypes. — One male, two females. No. 15467, U.S.N.M.; Misantla, 

 Mexico, June, 1912 (R. Miiller); Orizaba, Mexico (Schaus collection). 



Near to 0. alhocostata Druce, but the costa not so white and the 

 zigzag subterminal line present. 



ORUZA ALBOCOSTALIATA Packard. 



Acidalia albocostaliata Packard, Hayden Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., vol. 10, 



1876, p. 336. 

 Cosymbia albocostaliata Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1903, p. 292. 

 Pleonectyptera albocostaliata Dyar, Can. Ent., vol. 39, 1907, p. 209. 



This North American species falls here. It has been placed among 

 the Geometridae until recently. 



Genus BRYOCODIA Hampson. 



BRYOCODIA LELACtNA, new species. 



Yellowish gray at base, the lower part of median space dark 

 lilacine; area beyond the outer line pale lilacine, contrasting; inner 

 line black, waved, faint above; orbicular indicated; a black wedge 

 before the reniform, which is eUiptical, pale-filled ; outer line smooth, 

 excurved over reniform; subterminal line dark, broken, broadly 

 shaded on costa. Hind wing pale gray. Expanse, 17 to 19 mm. 



Cotypes. — Male and female, No. 15468 U.S.N .M.; San Jose de 

 Guaymas, Mexico, April, 1910 (L. O. Howard). 



