NO. 2139. NEW LEPinorTERA FROM MEXICO—DYAR. 17 



Genus ACHATIA Hubner. 



ACHATIA DOGMATICA, new species. 



Warm brown, the base, except center of base to reniform, and 

 outer line shaded with blackish; a quadrate black patch on costa 

 beyond outer line; a thick black dash on submedian fold from 

 outer line to margin; inner line curved, arcuate below vein 1; clavi- 

 form black-outlined; orbicular oblique, rather large, of the ground 

 color with black rim; reniform pale, large, dissolved in a pale area, 

 a lunate black patch within; outer line ex curved above, sharply 

 dentate, obscurely double; subterminal line lost except for a trace; 

 shght termmal black streaks between the veins, especially at veins 

 3-4. Hind whig pale at base, fuscous outwardly with faint discal 

 dot and outer hne. Expanse, 38 mm. 



Type. —Female, No. 18859, U.S.N.M.; Guerrero Mill, Hidalgo, 

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



Allied to A. lacruma Schaus. 



CHALCAMISTIS, new genus. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect, the second 

 joint with dense hair below, spreading hair above; front smooth; 

 eyes large, round; thorax clothed with hair-like scales, the pro- and 

 metathorax with spreading crests, patagia crested; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with areole present; hind 

 wing with vem 5 slightly below middle of discoceUulars, only a httle 

 weakened. Male antennae simple. 



Type of the genus. — Clialcamistis autoplusia, new species. 



CHALCAMISTIS AUTOPLUSIA. new species. 



Fore wing purple-brown, light purplish in a band beyond outer 

 Hne; median space bright bronze, irrorate with dark; lines slender, 

 brown, single, approaching each other on inner margin, the inner 

 angled centrally, the outer shghtly fluxuous; sub termmal line angled, 

 brown, fine, inconspicuous; orbicular and reniform bright bronzy, 

 the latter followed by a black cloud. Hind wing lustrous fuscous, 

 slightly bronzy. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Type.—Mole, No. 18860, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, August, 

 1913 (R. Miiller). 



Subfamily Erastriinae. 



Genus CERATHOSIA Smith. 



CERATHOSIA (?) OPISTHOCHRA, new species. 



Fore wing light rosy gray; a brown-gray outer shade-band, pro- 

 duced in two blunt teeth opposite cell. Hind wing orange ocher. 

 Expanse, 11 mm. 



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