NO. 2054. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 369 



on costa before apex, forming a broken arc; some dots and dashes 

 in upper edge of the marginal patch. Hind wing fuscous shaded, 

 darker on the apex. Expanse, 18 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 15458, U.S.N.M.; Oaxaca, Mexico (Schaus 



collection) . 



Family ARCTIIDAE. 



Genus HYALARCTIA Hampson. 



HYALARCTIA TEPICA, new species. 



Pale yellow, translucent, except along costa and inner margin of 

 fore wing; veins of fore wing narrowly lined with black. Head and 

 collar ocher, two small black points on collar and one on each pata- 

 gium. Black lines on front side of fore and mid legs. Expanse, 

 39 mm. 



Type.—Femsde, No. 16444, U.S.N.M.; Itapa, near Tepic, Mexico 

 (R. MiiUer). 



Family NOCTUIDAE. 



Subfamily AG-ROTINAJE. 

 Genus AGROTIS Ochsenheimer. 



AGROTIS CHABAUDANA, new species. 



Collar black, with a yellow-white line in front, widening to the 

 sides. Fore wing slaty gray with only a trace of brown, the costa 

 broadly yellow clay color to before the outer line ; a black wedge at 

 base ; cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata ; orbicu- 

 lar and reniform large, of the ground color, defined by narrow pale 

 lines, open below; inner Une smooth, pale, incurved in an arc across 

 submedian space; outer line smooth, pale, faintly dark edged, ex- 

 curved from costa, subparallel to outer margin below; a pale ter- 

 minal Une. Hind wing pale at base, fuscous shaded outwardly, with 

 dark discal spot and outer hne. Expanse, 40 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 16477, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, June, 

 1913 (R. MilUer). 



Named in honor of Mr. Roberto Miiller's correspondent in Zacual- 

 pan, State of Mexico, near the frontier of Guerrero, Mr. Alfredo 

 Chabaud. 



AGROTIS DELICATESSA, new species. 



Collar black beyond base. Fore wing brown, the color clear in 

 basal space and beyond outer line, shaded with blackish centrally; 

 costa grayish clay-color to outer line; a black wedge at base; cell 

 filled with black before and between the stigmata; orbicular creamy 

 brown, rounded below, open above and joined to a narrow line below 

 costal stripe running to base; claviform black-outlined, pale browni 

 filled; reniform brown with pale edge within and narrow black one 

 without; inner hne smooth, blackish, double, incurved across sub- 

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