20 PNOCEEDTXO,^ OF THE NATIONAL MU.^EUM. 



Genus BANIANA Walker. 



BANIAN A LODEBER, new species. 



Fore wing oeherous gray; inner line black, thick, broken into three 

 segments, the costal one farther out; a black spot in cell just beyond; 

 discal dot double, dark; outer line black, distinct, inwardly dentate 

 on discal and submedian folds, followed by a deep purphsh brown 

 shade to the dentate subterminal hne; termen of same hght color as 

 base of wing, with a fine wavy line in base of fringe; hmd wing fu- 

 cous, becoming blackish outwardly. Collar dark brown; disk of 

 thorax light. Expanse, 24 mm. 



y^pg, — Female, No. 19268, U.S.N.M.; Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico, 

 February, 1914 (R. Miiller). 



Genus PLEONECTYPTERA Grote. 



PLEONECTYPTERA CONSOLATA, new species. 



Fore wing purphsh gray; lines obhque, parallel; inner hne faint, 

 running from inner margin to across median vein, where it ends; 

 outer line distinct, yellow, edged with dark brown without, straight 

 from outer third of inner margin to costa before apex. Hind v'ing 

 grayer and less smoothly colored than fore wing. Expanse, 33 mm. 



T^^^pg __Female, No. 19269, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, October, 

 1913 (R. Miiller). 



Subfamily Hypeninae. 



Genus METALECTRA Hubner. 



METALECTRA VIRLDESCENS, new species. 



Luteous clay-color, faded from glaucous green, a httle of wliich 

 still shows toward apex; marks powdery, black; inner hne double, 

 slender, obsolete above; median line double, broad, dentate on veui 

 1, crossing the lunate reniform; outer hne double, dentate, powdery, 

 the outer segment shaded; subterminal Hne irregularly shaded, 

 blotched below middle of margin and at tomus; a row of terminal 

 dashes. Hind wing with the lines blotched and obscured by exten- 

 sive costal powdery patches that reach down across the cell. Expanse, 

 16 mm. 



Type.— Femsih, No. 18863, U.S.N.M.; Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico, 

 January, 1913, "Raupe auf Piltz" (W. Gugelmann, through R. 

 Miiller). 



METALECTRA VIVIDIFER, new species. 



Light purplish gray, shaded with rosy in patches in subterminal 

 space; base of fore wing black-shaded, followed by a point of a clavi- 

 form, rosy filled; median band broad, black, touching the curved 

 reniform and fusing it to costa; outer line slender, incurved opposite 



