NO. 2139. NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM MEXICO— DYAR. 23 



Named for Mr. J. H. Broidrick, who assisted Messrs. Mann and 

 Skewes in collecting. 



Genus DATANA Walker. 



DATANA HOLOPORPHYRA, new species. 



Purplish, irrorate with brown; terminal space broad, pale, the 

 margin touched with bluish; apical line depressed from apex, rim- 

 ning to vein 4; lines weak, purple-brown, inner and outer moderate, 

 the space between darkened, the median line obscure; outer line 

 excurved gently in the center between veins 2-6; discal dot obscure, 

 with some light bluish scales. Hind wing dark, purplish brown 

 over a light color, the dark dusting dense, nearly complete. Ex- 

 panse, 49 mm. 



r^/pg.— Male, No. 18869, U.S.N.M.; Guerrero Mill, Hidalgo, Mexico, 

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



Family GEOMETRIDAE. 



Genus TEPHRINA Guenee. 



TEPHRINA CALIPOSIS, new species. 



Light brownish, shaded and irrorate with purplish; lines nearly 

 straight; inner slender; mesial rmming close to discal dot, which is 

 round, black, followed by a purple shade; outer line sUghtly bent 

 above, followed by a purple shade; a subterminal row of black dots 

 between the veins; a terminal row of small dots. Hind wing clearer, 

 more distinctly irrorate ; inner line through the discal dot ; outer line 

 fused to a short purple shade; terminal dots as on fore wing. Ex- 

 panse, 30 mm. 



TVpe.— Female, No. 18870, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, Sep- 

 tember, 1913 (R. Miiller). 



TEPHRINA CALLIOPE, new species. 



Ground color almost white, a little grayish; densely brown-irrorate^ 

 the veins rather strongly lined; lines rusty brown, distinct, without 

 purple shades, nearly straight, the mesial line cutting the upper end 

 of cross- vein; outer line slightly flexuous; a terminal brown line. 

 Hind wing with mesial line through the discal dot; outer line joined 

 to a series of short rays along the veins; terminal line as on fore 

 wing. Expanse, 27 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 18871, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, May, 1913 

 (R. MiiUer). 



