NO. 2ir>9. NEW LEl'inOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 25 



Genus CASBIA Walker. 



CASBIA ALTERARIA, new species. 



Similar to C. nicetaria Guenee or C. cermala Druce, but the lines 

 straight; hmer and outer lines slender, straight; discal dot a point, 

 preceded by a faint mesial line; basal and terminal areas darker, 

 less violaceous than median space. Hind wing similar, the curved 

 outline followed by a darker terminal space; discal dot a white 

 point. Expanse, 27 mm. 



Type.— Male,, No. 18873, U.S.N.M.; Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico, Feb- 

 ruary, 1913 (R. Midler) . 



Genus APICIA Guenee. 



APICIA PORRIGARIA, new species. 



Male. — Fore wing dark, almost solidly mottled with brown; inner 

 line curved, a little angled on median vein, brown, followed by a 

 narrow, pale yellowish area; discal point black; outer Ime sharply 

 angled subcostally, followed by a pale yellowish space that becomes 

 broad below. Hind wing lighter, with pale yellow on costal half 

 and beyond mesial line; lines straight, shortly beyond the discal dot, 

 fading out toward costa. Expanse, 21 mm. 



Female. — Darker, being without the pale yellowish areas, though 

 the yellow lightening on costal half of hind wing persists. Expanse, 

 21-25 mm. 



Type.—Msle, sdlotype., female, No. 18874, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, 

 Mexico, Jmie, 1913 (R. Midler). 



APICIA ANADIS, new species. 



Yellow, shghtly ohvaceous, obsoletely irrorate; discal dot black; 

 lines brownish, the inner bent on median vem, the outer running to 

 vein 8, then angled, but not reachmg costa, followed by a f amt hghter 

 area; two small dark spots in the upper part of terminal space. Hind 

 wing with discal dot and single line, termmating before costa. Ex- 

 panse, 32 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 18875, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, July, 1913 

 (R. MiiUer). 



Near A. myandaria Walker, but paler yellow, the costal dashes 

 absent, the spots in the terminal space higher up. Lighter than any 

 male vibicaria Cramer before me and without the- dark ground of that 

 species, 



APICIA COMMOTA, new species. 



Ground color straw yellowish, thickly mottled with purple patches, 

 nearly sohdly filUng the terminal space; inner line brownish, bent on 

 median vem, but curved, not angled; outer bent subcostally, well 

 below costa and running to it distinctly; discal dot black; a dark 

 clouding above anal angle. Hind wing with single mesial line, gently 



