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Genus HYDROECIODES Hampson. 



HYDROECIODES PEXINELLA, new species. 



Male antennae bipectinate. Fore wing dark brown, showing red in 

 the stigmata and sub terminal space; lines dark brown; subbasal 

 curved; inner bent subcostally and on median vein, but nearly 

 straight, cutting the large, red, oval claviform m two; orbicular cir- 

 cular, red, brown-edged; mesial hne strongly excurved, angled on 

 vem 3 below reniform; reniform red, four white dots within, the first 

 at the mner lower angle and a faint one at mner upper angle ; outer 

 line far out, excurved, denticulate, closely followed by the similar 

 subtermmal, the space below red, divided into spots by the veins; 

 vems narrowly black, as is terminal line. Hind wing dark fuscous. 

 Expanse, 29 mm. 



Type.— Male, No. 18845, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, August, 

 1913 (R. Mtiller). 



Near H. pexa Schaus, but smaller, the male genitalia less prominent 

 and small, the reddish spots in subterminal space narrower. 



HYDROECIODES RUXIS, new species. 



Male antennae bipectuiate. Dark brown, without red tint in the 

 stigmata; subbasal line curved; inner hne bent at right angles on 

 median vein; claviform and round orbicular shghtly pale; median 

 line bent at reniform; reniform with a white semicircular spot and 

 two dots on lower side; outer line excurved, denticulate on the veins; 

 subterminal space broad, shghtly pale; subterminal line broadly 

 irregular, bent in at veins 2 and 5. Hind wing dark fuscous; abdo- 

 men blackish dorsally, anal segment dull ocherous. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Typc—MaXe, No. 18846, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, September 



1913 (R. Miiller). 



HYDROECIODES CIRRAMELA. new species. 



Fore wmg reddish ocher, the outer half suffused with purphsh; hues 

 slender, the inner of three arcs, the outer lost m the purple shading; 

 orbicular round, distinct, clear reddish; reniform quadrate, clear 

 reddish, with five little white dots on the outer border and one in the 

 lower inner angle; some reddish flecks along costa and three minute 

 white specks toward apex; subtermmal hne showmg reddish on upper 

 half. Hind wing dark fuscous, veins darker; costal half faintly 

 reddish. Expanse, 30 mm. 



2V^e.— Male, No. 19261, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, Mexico, January, 



1914 (R. MiiUer). 



