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Family RIODINIDAE. 

 Genus ANCYLURIS Hubner. 



ANCYLURIS INCA MORA, new subspecies. 



Female. — Band of fore wing narrower than in inca Saunders and 

 terminating at vein 2 ; spot on costa of hind wing smaller and shorter. 



Males. — Band of fore wing oblique, reachmg tornus. Hind wing 

 with no yellow above; beneath with a small white spot near tornus 

 and a larger orange one above it. 



Cotijpes.—Uale and female, No. 16441, U.S.N.M.; Santa Rosa, 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico, August, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Family HESPERIIDAE. 



Genus MTSCELUS Hubner. 



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MYSCELUS PERISSODORA, new species. 



Dark red-brown, scarcely bronzy; fore wmg with the costa shaded 

 with black over cell, the veins black; three largo hyaline spots across 

 middle of wing, a quadrate one in cell, somewhat larger rectangular 

 one below vein 3 and a triangular one below vein 2; a subapical 

 row of hyaline spots, five in a curved row, the upper three wedge- 

 shaped, progressively larger, then a small one, then a narrow one; 

 two spots below, the upper notched, the lower rounded, separated 

 by vein 4. Hind wing red-brown with central dusky shaded band. 

 Beneath the fore wing is blackish, the spots repeated, the base light 

 yellow nearly to the band of spots. Hind wing black, the basal half 

 pale yellow, cut by a black bar on inner margm and followed by some 

 scattered yellow scales. Palpi beneath, pectus, legs and base of 

 abdomen pale yellow. Expanse, 52 mm. 



Typ^.— No. 15454, U.S.N.M.; Misantla, Mexico, June, 1912 (R. 



MiiUer). 



Genus PARATRYTONE Godman. 



PARATRYTONE APHRACTOIA, new species. 



Brown-black; fore wing with an oblique quadrate yeUow-hyaline 

 spot m the end of the cell, three small ones beyond, closely continuous 

 in Une, a narrow one above vein 1, large one above vein 2 and small 

 one above vein 3, there in an oblique Ime; male brand oblique from 

 vein 1 to 3, black, surrounded by a black area. Hind wmg with four 

 yellow spots in a straight row between veins lb and 5, alternatingly 

 large and small. Beneath, fore wing with the markings repeated, 

 the lower spot elongated and white; a black shade m disk. Hmd 

 wing dark red shaded, the spots repeated in white and in addition 

 three others, one in cell, two on costa, these small. Expanse, 32 mm. 

 Type.—U&le, No. 16442, U.S.N.M.; Popocatopetl Park, 13,000 

 feet, Mexico (W. Schaus). 



