NO. 2139. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 33 



Superfamily TINEOIDEA. 



Family NOLIDAE. 



Genus ROESELIA Hubner. 



ROESELIA CLARCIANA, new species. 



Fore wing light gray, more whitish at base and above cell; a black 

 patch on costa at base widening triangularly; a black median shade, 

 covering orbicular and half of reniform, widening in an arc to outer 

 line, thence wide but fainter to hmer margm; outer half of reniform 

 white, without border; outer Hue ex curved over cell, double through- 

 out except immediately at costa; sul^terminal hne dark, shaded, 

 irregular, followed by whitish; a row of black dashes around apex 

 and outer margin. Hmd wing pale gra}^, lighter on costa. Expanse, 

 29 mm. 



Typ^.— Female, No. 19277, U.S.N.M.; Guerrero Mill, Hidalgo, 

 Mexico, 9,000 feet (Mann and Skewes, gift of B. Preston Clark). 



Named in honor of Mr. B. Preston Clark. 



Family COCHLIDIIDAE. 



Genus EUCLEA Hubner. 



EUCLEA IMMUNDARA, new species. 



Ground color light, many scales erect, the dark brown ones pre- 

 dominatmg only at base; a pale mustard-yellow patch at apex and 

 beyond the median half line; fringe pale below vein 3, except a dark 

 tuft at tornus; half line silver, raised, an angle on submedian vein 

 and on vein 1, concave between; subapical scale-dots on veins 6 and 

 10 and a streak between 7-9; veins dark brown outwardly; discal dot 

 erect, dark brown. Hind wing brown with pale mustard-yeUow 

 fringe, tipped with brown at anal angle. Expanse, 23 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 18899, U.S.N.M.: Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico, 

 November, 1913 (R. Miiller). 



The species of Euclea most nearly allied to this one may be sepa- 

 rated as follows : 



Fore \\-ing with a pale ray along vein 1, the subbasal silver marking not crossing it. 

 Line on vein 1 silvery; subbasal line oblique, not, or slightly, dentate. 



subspecies trichathdota Dyar. {distrahens Dyar.) 

 Line on vein 1 at most pale; subbasal line toothed. 



Subbasal line uniform as to submedian fold, forming similar marks above and 

 below it. 



Subbasal line epsilon-shaped , forming full arcs, the upper sometimes 



running out along vein 2 diversa Druce. 



Subbasal line cusp-shaped, the arcs abbreviated above and below. 



cuspostriga Dyar. 

 Subbasal line looped, a tooth on submedian and deep sinus below, the arm 

 above reduced to a line. 

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