No.20-i4. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 373 



Genus HYSSIA Guenee. 



HYSSIA DEGENERANS, new species. 



Light reddish brown; a large area over the end of cell, narrowing 

 basally, blackish; lines indistinct, showing as irregular transverse 

 streaks, the outer continuous and curved, somewhat dotted; ter- 

 minal space moderately and evenly a shade paler, without evident 

 subterminal Ime, Hind wing pale ocherous whitish, shaded with 

 fuscous broadly over apex; veins and discal dot gray; terminal line 

 dark, broken. Expanse, 24 mm. 



Type.— Mfde, No. 16484, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, July, 1913 

 (R.Muller). 



■ HYSSIA PLENIPOTENTIA, new species. 



Fore wing dark brown, shaded with blackish; a black dash at base 

 on submedian; inner line double, black, paler filled, forming an 

 arc from media to vein 1 and from 1 to margin; claviform a broad 

 black arc; orbicular a black circle; reniform full, black-edged, filled 

 by ground color with a faint concentric ring and outer white edge; 

 outer line double, with pale brownish filling, the outer edge very 

 indistinct, inner edge dentate, the line sharply excurved beyond cell; 

 subterminal line flexuous, pale brownish, preceded by indistinct 

 black dashes, the narrow following terminal space black-shaded. 

 Hind wing whitish in the male with fuscous border, veins and discal 

 dot, largely fuscous in the female. Expanse, male, 30 mm.; female, 

 25 mm. 



Cotypes. — Male and female, No. 16485, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, 

 Mexico, June, 1913 (R. Miiller). 



NEOMANOBIA, new genus. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the second joint 

 thickly scaly, the third smooth; front smooth, rounded; antennae of 

 male ciliate; eyes large, rounded; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales; pro- and meta- thorax with spreading 

 crests; fore tarsi with a row of stout spines on the outer side of first 

 joint; abdomen without crests. 



Type of the genus. — Neomanohia thyodes, new species. 



NEOMANOBIA THYODES, new species. 



Fore wing dark brown-black, the reniform discolorous, red-brown, 

 with narrow clay-colored outer edge; other stigmata absolete; lines 

 black, thickened, crenulate, subsegmented, obscure; inner line 

 oblique; a coarsely angled median black line without bordering pale 

 scales, touching the reniform inwardly; outer line projected over 

 reniform, doubled centrally by a row of remote black dots; sub- 

 terminal line rather distinct, black, indented subcostally and sub- 



